Casual Recovery Worker

Casual Recovery Worker

Location:

Buntingford

Working Hours:

Casual

Contract Type:
Casual

Salary: £13.65 per hour

Please note:

The salary listed reflects the full earning potential for this role. Starting salaries depend on experience and progression within the band.

Waythrough was formed in 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Together, we’ve created one of the largest mental health and social support charities in England.

Every year, we support around 125,000 people through nearly 200 services – and it’s all made possible by our 3,500 brilliant staff and volunteers.

Are you passionate about helping others live safer, healthier, more independent lives? Join our team at Waythrough and support people facing challenges around mental health, substance use, housing or domestic abuse. This is more than just a job – it’s a chance to build meaningful relationships and create lasting change.

Willow house is a mental health crisis recovery house. We offer support for those in crisis from a range of 3-7 days. We are a seven bedroom facility, with 24 hour staffing. Day staff work in a shift pattern of earlies, days and lates. Waking night staff cover a ten hour period.

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

Assist people using our services to:

• Manage and improve their own physical and mental well-being
• Develop life-skills and coping tools to better manage their own mental health, through group and 1:1 interventions.
• Live more fulfilling lives and develop new meanings and purposes
• Take control over their life, through their own choices and decisions

Ensure the safe running of the service:

• 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 sessions
• 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 and around 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
• Maintain the health and safety of the building
• Support the team with daily planning

• 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

• Abilitytocommunicateeffectivelyatalllevels
• Abilitytorespondcompassionatelytosensitiveandcomplexissues
• Abletomotivate,supportandadvocateforpeopleusingservices
• Able to work effectively unsupervised andas partofateam
• Abletokeepgoodandaccuraterecords
• Abilitytoplanandprioritiseworkload
• Goodinterpersonalandlisteningskills
• Abletokeepgoodandaccuraterecords
• Abilitytoplanandprioritiseworkload
• Abletodemonstrateacommitmenttoself-development&training
• Abletodemonstratepersonal&professional integrity
• Abilitytoworkunderpressure
• GoodITskills,including in
  
  Word,theuseofdatabasesandemail
• Abletoworkflexiblytom…