Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic candidate for the role of Recovery Worker. The successful candidate will support the delivery of services in assisting service users to maintain their recovery. This post will support service users in gaining understanding and insight into their own recovery, maximising engagement and retention and will act as a role model for recovery. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, holding a caseload of complex substance misusing clients in line with a recovery focused model, utilising 121 and group work sessions as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
* Proactively encourage users to access and signpost to appropriate services which may include housing provision, social support services; to promote and facilitate the harm reduction model of treatment provision in all aspects of work, to enable alcohol/substance users to adopt safer practices, healthier lifestyles and wellbeing.
* Providing advice and information to service users about the range of services on offer both within the statutory and non-statutory sector and assist service users in accessing these.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care. We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised. We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Level 3 healthcare qualification, or equivalent experience
* Knowledge of the recovery movement
* Knowledge of substances and their effects
* Knowledge of multi-disciplinary working
Knowledge and Experience
* Demonstrates knowledge of the role of Recovery worker in this service within the application
* Experience of caring for someone with a long term condition or at end of life
* Basic understanding of a range of common long term health conditions.
* Understand concepts of encouraging independence
* Understands own boundaries and knows when to report to senior staff
* Understanding of confidentiality
* Experience of team working
* Experience of working within a Community Nursing setting
* Experience of using SystmOne
Skills and Competencies
* Excellent verbal communication and listening skills with patients/colleagues/carers
* Able to work flexible hours to meet service needs.
* Sufficient IT skills to learn the systems required for clinical recording, incident reporting and equipment / stock ordering
* Good organisational skills
* Time management and prioritisation skills
* Able to work alone and as part of a team
* Clinical skills e.g. phlebotomy, wound care, diabetes care, taking vital observations
* Familiar with lone working
* Willingness to undertake COSHH training relevant to role
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date. This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter. Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you. If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis. If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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