Support Time Recovery Worker | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	30 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£24,625 - £25,674 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	30 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad:	Maidstone, ME14 5TS
Cwmni:	Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7249994/380-FR0581

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Exciting opportunity to work with the Mental Health of Learning Disability (MHLD) across Kent. We are currently looking to recruit two Band 3 Support Time and Recovery Workers. One post will cover East Kent (based in the Beacon in Thanet) and the other will cover West Kent (based in Albion House in Maidstone).

The main elements of community mental health support work focus on collaborative working with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management. Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community. Part of the expected role of this post is to assist nursing staff with the effective functioning of the Physical Health Clinics and support the wider MDT Teams with monitoring the implementation of treatment plans in place. Visiting people at their own home as required.

To work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users with a Learning disability, working across boundaries of care, organisation and role.

To 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 to identify their needs and to assist care co-ordinators to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.

To have the individual service user’s needs at the fore at all times, working to the recovery model to support the service user to work towards their identified goals.

To use agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work.

To be actively involved in the delivery of Interventions with the support and guidance of the Multi-disciplinary Team.

Come 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 3,800 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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To be aware of any Advance Directives made by service users in respect of their care and treatment

To assist in delivering a high standard of support to service users and their carers, promoting their equality, dignity and mental wellbeing at all times

To facilitate service user and carer input into the development of best practice

To promote effective communication and relationships with people who are troubled or depressed To establish and maintain working relationships with people who have difficulty in communicating To establish and maintain working relationships with people who lack trust and motivation

To provide advice and information to those who enquire about mental and physical health needs and related services

To regularly work with people who are experiencing or have experience often sad or upsetting personal and/or social situations

To establish, sustain and at the appropriate time, disengage from professional relationships with service users working at the service users’ pace with support from the multi-disciplinary team (MDT)

To provide, or assist service users to access, information on health promotion to include a health diet; smoking cessation; preventing substance misuse and the importance of physical exercise

To work with individuals to facilitate access and engagement in a range of leisure and other community based activities, working across boundaries of care and organisations including Secondary Care, Primary Care and Third Sector services.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.


This advert closes on Monday 14 Jul 2025

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