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Community Recovery Practitioner
The closing date is 25 July 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) across the Black Country. As a Community Mental Health Recovery Practitioner, you will play a pivotal role in providing community rehabilitation in collaboration with Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs). You will work with a capped caseload of service users, who are either in out-of-area rehabilitation placements and due for discharge or residing within the Black Country with a diagnosed Severe Mental Illness and requiring community rehabilitation support.
Our service is underpinned by CHIME to promote Connectedness, Hope, Identity, Meaning and Empowerment
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team (CERT) MDT, which includes a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Support workers.
* Care Coordination: Manage and coordinate patient centred care for service users, ensuring their rehabilitation needs are met.
* Provide wrap around care: Work in partnership with CMHTs, Local Authority, care providers and family
* Hospital Discharge Support:Facilitate smooth transitions from hospital to community settings.
* Recovery-Focused Interventions:Deliver tailored interventions aimed at building resilience, improving wellbeing, and addressing complex mental health needs.
* Assessment and Planning: Assess individual needs and risks to ensure that care packages are appropriate and effective.
* Intensive Support:Work closely with clients for up to 2 years, focusing on their individual, cultural, and social needs to help them achieve their optimum level of functioning and a fulfilling life.
* Step-Down Services: Ensure a seamless transition to locality-based services when appropriate. The post holder will liaise with external agencies to achieve personalised recovery outcomes for patients within the service.
About us
At Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, we're building a high-calibre, diverse and inclusive mental health workforce. One that will give talented professionals like you the opportunity to shape an outstanding service that will transform community mental healthcare and deliver happier and healthier lives all across our communities.
The Trust is rated 'Good' from CQC (Care Quality Commission) and will become the lead provider for mental health services across The Black Country. We have recently invested in newly created clinical divisions and are currently developing new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, as well launching a far-reaching inpatient strategy, working to eradicate dormitories and building new facilities.
This ambitious model is multi-agency and multi-disciplinary, opening the door for you to work in a collaborative and flexible way with partners, service users, carers and their families
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be able operate flexibly Pan trust
Some travel will be required to visit out of area placements to assess service users and to review care provision
The service will operate Monday to Friday 9-5 hours but is expected to advise service users and carers of access to services outside of these hours and liaise and refer on to other mental health care providers in cases where support outside of these hours is required.
Contribute to the development and implementation of the Community Enablement and Recovery Team
Working within an MDT to work holistically and improve our patients recovery journey
Liaison with external services to facilitate discharge from out of area placements, co-ordinate 117 packages of care and to support referral process
For further details please see Job Description and Person Specification
Person Specification
Education
* Evidence of a professional registration - RNMH/RNLD/OT/SW
* Evidence of Post Registration training
Experience
* A minimum of 6 months post registration experience
* Experience of working with individuals with severe and enduring mental illness
* Knowledge of person centred, recovery focussed and trauma informed care
* Demonstrate an understanding of Psychologically led Recovery focussed interventions (including CBT/DBT), PTSD and Personality Disorder
* Experience of working within a Recovery Model
Knowledge
* Mental Health Legislation and policy including CPA and 117
* Demonstrate a sound knowledge of the recovery model and its underpinning values
* Effective IT skill including the ability to operate Microsoft office software packages to include email
Skills
* To make clear and realistic assessments of situations and to communicate clearly and unambiguously with colleagues from a variety of backgrounds
* Commitment / Genuine interest of client group within area of speciality
* Ability to travel frequently throughout the working day across Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley and Sandwell
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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