Job overview
This role is focussed on supporting people, in the community, with a range of acute mental health needs, who may be in crisis, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and supporters, enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.
We are looking for a Recovery Coordinator for Swindon Intensive Team based at Sandalwood Court. The team cover 8am-10pm 7 days a week and we work a shift pattern.
Main duties of the job
The Intensive Team is part of the Swindon Access services.
The Intensive Team provides assessment and home treatment to individuals and their carers as an alternative to hospital admission, relapse prevention, short term therapy work and help provide facilitated discharge from hospital.
The team operates 8am to 10pm per day 7 days per week 365 days per year, as such the successful candidate will be expected to be able to undertake a shift pattern of working.
Mental Health Workers in this team, offer a variety of psychosocial skills to service users, whilst working under the guidance of registered practitioners there is also the expectation of lone working at times. The Intensive team has a shared caseload so Mental Health Workers are not required to provide care co-ordination.
We are ideally looking for someone who has successfully undertaken the NVQ Level 3 in Mental Health or equivalent qualification, is enthusiastic, has experience of working with people and families in distress due to mental health crisis and are able to work under pressure. The Swindon Intensive team works to promote recovery and operates a non-exclusion policy.
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