Support Time and Recovery Worker

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  • Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
  • £24,937-26,598 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 8 hours ago
We are recruiting a Band 3 Support Time and Recovery Worker to join our team who provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisation and role.You will provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment, helping them to build their own support network. To support service users in identifying their needs and to assist care coordinators in planning, implementing and evaluating individual care plans.The role will involve having the individual service user's needs at the forefront at all times, working to the recovery model to support them to work towards their identified goals by using agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work.You will be actively involved in the delivery of Initial Interventions with the support and guidance of a Psychologist or an Occupational Therapist when undertakingSTROT.Main duties of the jobWhat we can offer you in our Community Recovery Service LineCommunity Recovery offers an opportunity to experience community mental health nursing within one of its 9 localities across Kent. There is experience available in working with service users and carers within their homes and Group work as part of our MDT working. The service line also has a number of inpatient rehabilitation units, which will provide newly qualified staff with the opportunity to work with patients as they prepare to leave the inpatient service and move back to the community.There is also the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, which provides a service to 14 - 65 year olds in the early stages of a psychotic illness. Other services also include Learning Disabilities and Primary Care Psychological Therapy Service. We work in partnership with Kent County Council, which means that staff within the community teams work with Social Workers in providing a high-calibre service to both our service users and their carers. As you can see, there are numerous opportunitieswithin the Community Recovery Service Line and we look forward to welcoming you to our team.About usCome and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.We are proud to employ over 3,700 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.Our strategyOur mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant peopleOur vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTubeDetailsDate posted03 September 2025Pay schemeAgenda for changeBandBand 3Salary£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annumContractPermanentWorking patternFull-timeReference number380-WK0304-AJob locationsHighlands House, Tunbridge Wellstunbridge wellsTunbridge WellsTN1 2JNJob descriptionJob responsibilitiesPlease see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role. Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesPlease see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential
  • NVQ Level 2 in Care/ community Mental Health Care or agreed equivalent experience
  • Commitment to undertake and to gain appropriate Level 3 qualification within an agreed time limit
  • Ability to demonstrate a good level of English and Maths skills
Desirable
  • NVQ Level 3 in Care/Certificate in Community Mental Health Care or agreed equivalent
ExperienceDesirable
  • Experience of emotional distress in others
  • Experience of mental health services (as a worker or service user/carer)
Skills/KnowledgeEssential
  • Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users
  • Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings
  • Ability to recognise and support the persona resourcefulness of people with mental illness
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential
  • NVQ Level 2 in Care/ community Mental Health Care or agreed equivalent experience
  • Commitment to undertake and to gain appropriate Level 3 qualification within an agreed time limit
  • Ability to demonstrate a good level of English and Maths skills
Desirable
  • NVQ Level 3 in Care/Certificate in Community Mental Health Care or agreed equivalent
ExperienceDesirable
  • Experience of emotional distress in others
  • Experience of mental health services (as a worker or service user/carer)
Skills/KnowledgeEssential
  • Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users
  • Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings
  • Ability to recognise and support the persona resourcefulness of people with mental illness

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