Night Recovery Worker

Night Recovery Worker

Location: 18 Corfton Road,Ealing W5 2HT

Working hours: 10pm - 8am, with four shifts on four of pattern.

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £26,648 - £30,140

The West London Crisis Recovery House is situated in a quiet residential setting with a large garden providing a relaxing outdoor space. People staying at the service have their own room with communal bathroom and kitchen facilities.

It is a 17 bedded service offering a short-term stay of up to two weeks for people in mental health crisis. We accept people between the ages of 18-65 who have an enduring mental health problem and are under the care of the West London NHS Trust.

The service offers support and safety planning and a range of therapeutic interventions to equip people using the service with coping strategies to draw upon after they return home.

To support the people using our services to achieve their life goals

To assist with the safe and successful daily running of the service

To work as part of a team towards agreed service/contract targets

Waythrough Services range from 24 hour residential care with nursing to floating support in peoples own homes. Some require evenings, weekends, night shifts (waking or sleeping) and on-calls.

The people we support are central to everything we do. Each person who uses our services – residents or clients – is a unique individual and they all deserve to be treated as such. As such, the responsibilities may vary from day to day.

• Manage and improve their own physical and mental well-being
• Develop life-skills including budgeting, money management, tenancy sustainment, access to public services, further education and/or employment and living well in the community
• Live more fulfilling lives and develop new meanings and purposes
• Take control over their life, through their own choices and decisions

• Assess resident wellbeing and welfare on an ongoing basis
• Keep our service compliant with legal regulations
• Provide a safe, respectful environment

• Oversee your own caseload of key clients
• Concentrate on the person and their individual needs, choices and aspirations, rather than on diagnostic categories or labels
• Work with individuals to develop agreed, meaningful and achievable person centred plans with positive outcomes that meet the individual’s aspirations
• Complete a range of activities during key working sessions
• Ensure positive risk assessments are created and implemented in line with our policies and procedures
• Signpost people we support to other services for additional support

• Plan and carry out your core areas of responsibility
• Complete accurate and timely computerised records via our database
• Liaise with external agencies - such as community mental health teams, multi- disciplinary teams and carers - building relationships and projecting a positive image of the service
• Effectively monitoring and managing your own wellbeing through debriefing and discussions with your manager and colleagues
• Keep up to date with organisational developments

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Ability to respond compassionately to sensitive and complex issues
• Able to motivate, support and advocate for people using services
• Able to work effectively unsupervised and as part of a team
• Able to keep good and accurate records
• Ability to plan and prioritise workload

• 27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays)
• Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%
• Life assurance (3× annual…