Support, Time and Recovery Worker

We are currently transforming Mental Health Services in Somerset and have an exciting opportunity a for you to be part of an expanding Community Mental Health Service. We have a vacancy for a Support Time and Recovery Worker to join our Community Mental Health Service in South Somerset., Work with other members of the Community Mental Health Service both professionally qualified and other STR workers to ensure that the Team is accurately informed about progress with treatment and recovery of individual patients who include both in-patients and those taken on by the team for home treatment. This will include attending and actively participating in training sessions, team/care plan review meetings and supervision as appropriate.

To support people to engage with their agreed care plan by working towards agreed goals through regular and consistent support . This includes delivering evidence-based approaches under supervision e.g. graded exposure for anxiety, behavioural activation work for depressive disorders and other conditions, and promoting emotional skills for people's experience dysregulation.

Positively promote independent living of people within the community. Develop a therapeutic rapport with patients within appropriate and transparent boundaries. To provide regular and practical support to people and their carers in developing and managing dignity and independence. To provide support with daily living from an agreed care plan based on support identified by the keyworkers.

As an organisation, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits including flexible working, NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance and a commitment to career development.You will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a wide range of NHS exclusive shopping & leisure discounts.We are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer we welcome applications from all backgrounds.Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable.Somerset offers the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!