Overview
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 undertaking STROT.
Responsibilities
* Provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users to promote recovery and maintain them in their community environment, helping them build their own support network.
* Support service users in identifying their needs and assist care coordinators in planning, implementing and evaluating individual care plans.
* Keep the individual service user’s needs at the forefront, working to the recovery model to support them to work towards their identified goals using agreed values and skills in day-to-day work.
* Be actively involved in the delivery of Initial Interventions with the guidance of a Psychologist or an Occupational Therapist when undertaking STROT.
What we can offer
* Community Recovery offers experience in community mental health nursing within one of its 9 localities across Kent, with experience in working with service users and carers within their homes and Group work as part of our MDT working.
* The service line has inpatient rehabilitation units which 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 for 14 – 65 year olds in the early stages of a psychotic illness; other services include Learning Disabilities and Primary Care Psychological Therapy Service.
* We work in partnership with Kent County Council, meaning staff in the community teams work with Social Workers to provide a high-calibre service to service users and their carers.
* There are numerous opportunities within the Community Recovery Service Line and we look forward to welcoming you to our team.
About KMPT
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 strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day. We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people. Our vision is where we want to be in the future: To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025
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