Support Time and Recovery Worker - Bolton, United Kingdom - Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Bolton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) is one of the leading mental health trusts in the UK, providing community and inpatient mental health care, alongside substance misuse services across the North West.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Support, Time and Recovery (STR) worker to join our dynamic Early Intervention in Psychosis Team in Bolton.

The Early Intervention in Psychosis Team (EIT) works with people who have experienced a first episode of psychosis.

It is a multidisciplinary team supporting consisting of staff from a variety of disciplines, including nursing, social work, occupational therapy, and psychology.

One of the key aims of the team is to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis.

We achieve this through offering full care-coordination, evidence based group and individual psychological interventions (including cognitive behavioural therapy and Family Interventions), support with medication management, support with accessing employment, education and vocational activities and support for families and carers.

The role of the STR worker is integral to supporting a person on their recovery journey, by providing Support, and giving Time to engage them in their Recovery and promote health and well-being in line with their care plan, under the direction of the Care Coordinator/Occupational Therapist/Team Leader.

To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, supporting service users to achieve their goals as part of their recovery journey.

To advocate for service users and enable access to resources such as housing, education, employment, training and benefits.

To help service users to achieve their goals by supporting and encouraging them using brief interventions and low level psychosocial interventions.

To liaise with other agencies in order to support service users achieve their goals.

To support service users before, during, and after appointments, meetings, and planned activities to reduce anxiety and develop confidence in order to encourage independence.

To provide practical support to service users with regards to daily living, benefits, education, training, employment, and housing.

To facilitate therapeutic group work activities for service users when required.

To engage with families and carers as appropriate as part of service users recovery journey.

To help to identify early signs of relapse and to alert the appropriate staff involved in the service users care.

To keep the Care Coordinator/Occupational Therapist/Team Leader informed of all service users developments.

To contribute to the updating of service users records to inform the assessment, care planning and review process.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work.

From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

To contribute to the service users needs
To contribute to the care planning and review process for individual service users
To help service users to achieve their goals by supporting and encouraging them using brief interventions and low level psychosocial interventions such as diaries, selfreflection, action planning, and nodelink mapping
To advocate for service users and help them to gain access to resources such as benefits, training, education & employment and housing
To engage with other agencies in order to support service users achieve their goals
To support service users before, during, and after appointments, meetings, and planned activities to reduce anxiety and develop confidence in order to encourage independence
To provide practical support to service users with regards to daily living, benefits, education, training, employment, and housing
To facilitate therapeutic group work activities for service users when required
To engage with families and carers as appropriate as part of service users recovery journey
To help to identify early signs of relapse and to alert the appropriate staff involved in the service users care
To keep the Care Coordinator/Occupational Therapist/Team Leader informed of all service users developments
To contribute to the updating