Recovery Worker Community Enhanced Recovery Team

The Community Enhancing Recovery Team (CERT) was set up in 2014 to provide intensive, bespoke packages of care to service users in their own homes. Over the past 10 years the team has expanded to work with service users with mental health problems, personality disorders and/or learning disabilities to support them to move from hospital into their own tenancies. Referrals are primarily received from inpatient acute and rehabilitation services.

Service users are supported by a full multi-disciplinary team with the aim of enabling them to live independent and fulfilled lives. The team provides intensive quality interventions primarily between 8am and 8pm, 7 days a week to promote recovery.

Main duties of the job

The Community Enhancing Recovery Team (CERT) is a service that provides individual packages of intensive quality intervention to a diverse group of people who are or have experienced difficulties due to complex health and social needs, in their own home.

As a recovery worker you will be working intensively with a small number of people, enabling them to live their lives and achieve their own goals with support from a Multi-Disciplinary team.

People who use the service are from diverse backgrounds and will often have mental health needs, learning disabilities or personality disorders. They will often have had long or frequent hospital admissions.

All team members will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the team and we will offer induction and training in a wide range of areas which will give you the skills to feel confident in your role.

You will have the desire and passion to improve the quality of life for people in all aspects of their lives which may have been disrupted by ill-health.

The aim of CERT is to prepare people for the next step in their lives where we hope that people will require decreasing levels of support.

CERT is a service that provides a 7 day a week service between the hours of 8am and 8pm, the post holder would be required to work flexibly within this.

Supporting the ongoing development of the team with all team members

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.

It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of

If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.