Senior Recovery Support Worker | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 August 2025 |
| Location: | Tooting, SW17 7DJ |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7337727/294-CAMHS-7337727-FZ |
Summary
You would be joining a new Community Intensive Support Service for children and young people (CYP) with Autism residing in Merton, Wandsworth, Sutton, Kingston, and Richmond. The CAMHS Dynamic Support Team is a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team that offers specialist intensive interventions for Children and Young People already under community tier 3 CAMHS and on the Dynamic Support register.
We are pleased to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced, and committed Senior Recovery Support Workerto join the Dynamic Support Team and to be at the forefront of developing the service alongside the rest of the team.
You will work with highly skilled mental health professionals who are committed to supporting home and community-based care, facilitating safe discharge, and reducing young people’s length of stay, should admission become necessary. It is essential to be committed to safe and effective team working. The role includes individual, family and group work and the provision of telephone support to young people.
The service will help shape an effective and consistent model of care in South-West London, which aims to bridge the gap between community services and inpatient care, whilst also strengthening longer term local services for autistic young people.
The service operates 5 days a week 9-5pm
Main duties of the role:
• To be a member of the Dynamic Support Team, working closely with the multi-disciplinary team to provide treatment and support to a small group of young people, families, cares agencies or services around the young person.
• To provide highly specialist clinical services to a small number of children, young people identified through the Dynamic Support Register with a diagnosis of ASD and their families / carers across all sectors of care.
• Providing support in a crisis, supporting young people and families at home to manage periods of distress and upset, and to develop positive ways of managing and coping.
• Co-facilitating therapeutic groups or activities.
• The post holder will also work very closely with families/carers to help support and provide support with responding to a young person’s needs
• This role involves independent daily travel across South West London and involves some lone working, within a close supervision structure.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our location:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
The Adolescent Outreach Team base is at Springfield University Hospital and our inpatient adolescent unit, Aquarius, is also on the site. This role involves independent daily travel across South West London. We often also visit other sites within the Trust, mainly -Tolworth Hospital, Surbiton; Richmond Royal, Richmond or Livingstone House, Teddington; Jubilee Health Centre, Wallington; Cricket Green Polyclinic, Mitcham
• To carry our individual programmes of care.
• To be able to work in a supportive and education way with families/carers.
• To perform delegated duties without direct supervision from qualified staff within the home/community.
• To be proactive in gathering information on and creating positive working relationships with local services, and activities for young people.
• To support and assist young people with enquiries or access to other services.
• To maintain professional working relationships with all staff, parents/carers, young people, and other agencies
• To attend and contribute to clinical team meetings.
• To maintain professional standards in accordance with the Trust’s code of conduct for health care assistants.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Jul 2025