Mid and North East Essex Mind - Mental Health Recovery Worker

About the role

Looking for a job you love? An exciting new opportunity has arisen for Mental Health Recovery Workers to support the NHS across Mid Essex. Do you have a genuine passion to help people? Would you like to be part of an organisation that supports, cares and empowers people? If so, we want to hear from you! Join us, so we can make an even greater impact.

In Mid and South Essex the demands on the Mental Health Services have significantly increased. The role of the Recovery Worker is to support the Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) and the Mental Health Liaison Nurse in the Accident and Emergency Department to meet the additional demands.
The Mental Health Recovery Worker will work alongside Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) colleagues based in the CMHT and Basildon University Hospital Accident and Emergency to support service users so that they can be discharged and manage their mental health and wellbeing in the community.

The role will require you to support service users in developing wellbeing and safety plans, identify and overcome their fears as well as promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for service users to fulfil their goals and gain greater self-management of their health and wellbeing.

How to apply

To apply for the role please send a covering letter and CV to the recruitment team at [email protected] or complete an application form which can be downloaded from our website; https://mnessexmind.org/work-for-us/paid-jobs/ and email it through to the recruitment team at [email protected]

Closing Date: 10th January 2022         Interview Date: 17th January 2022