Life Skills Recovery Worker - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust
East London NHS Foundation Trust
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Life Skills Recovery Worker - Band 4

The Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health
12 months secondment / Full Time hours


We are offering a great secondment opportunity for a Life Skills Recovery Worker at the Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health in Newham.

We are looking for individuals who have a keen interest in engaging young people in therapeutic activities to support recovery.

A typical day as a Life Skills Recovery Worker may include helping a young person through a period of extreme distress or helping a young person return to school, engaging young people in therapeutic games and activities such as playing sports, taking young people to bowling or cinema and/or going for a walk.

The Life Skills Recovery Worker role will give you skills that are transferable to many careers.


The Life Skills Recovery Worker (LSRW) role at the Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health focuses on increased engagement of young people within the clinical setting using nursing interventions and at times jointly working with the occupational therapy team.


The LSRW would need to have good communication skills to build therapeutic rapport with young people with complex presentations and who may present with challenging behavior.

A typical day as a Life Skills Recovery Worker may include helping a young person through a period of extreme distress or helping a young person return to school, engaging young people in therapeutic games and activities such as playing sports, taking young people to bowling or cinema and/or going for a walk.


The LSRW would also need to have good understanding of Quality Improvement initiatives and have an interest in engaging in Quality improvement projects within the service.

You will be offered an induction program to prepare you for the work you will undertake.

We also offer regular supervision, reflective practice groups, academic sessions, and staff away days to support with development and learning.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve


Our values are:

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Key responsibilities


To provide, supervise, and monitor care and treatment to an identified group of patients under the direction of Registered Nurse.


Take responsibility for the development and delivery of evidence based practice, ensuring that it supports and reflects service user individual needs, Trust objectives and professional guidance.

Contribute to the development of high quality evidence based in-patient services in a changing health care environment.

Contribute towards ensuring that the ward functions as an integral part of the Directorate's services.

Effective communication with all relevant personnel both internal and external to the Trust.

To practice within professional guidelines and promote professional practice in clinical area.

To ensure continuous personal development through the utilisation of regular supervision, annual appraisal and training where appropriate

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Responsibilities:

See detailed JD attached.

The Coborn Centre is located in well resourced, purpose built premises at the Newham Centre for Mental Health premises. We work with young people aged between 12-18 years old and their families.

The Centre opened in 2006 and comprises of 12 acute beds, 16 intensive care beds and up to 9 day patient places.

The service has led the way in the design of adolescent mental health facilities nationally. We have been accredited as excellent by the QNIC accreditation process and have been awarded Outstanding by CQC

You will work with a large multidisciplinary team who share a wealth of knowledge and experience. You will be able to shadow different professionals and will be offered great development opportunities.

We will offer you an induction into the service to prepare you for the work you will undertake. We also offer regular supervision, reflective practice groups, academic sessions, various training opportunities, yearly appraisals and staff away days.


We also offer various staff benefits including, car lease schemes, cycle to work schemes, staff wellbeing initiatives and much more.

We are welcoming and friendly and we would love for you to come and join us.

For further details / informal visits contact

Please contact, Peter Juma (Matron ), Valentine Dube (Matron) or Temi Adedewe (Matron) on
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