Recovery Worker – Community Rehabilitation Team

JOB TITLE                       Recovery Worker

DEPARTMENT                 Complex Psychosis Pathway Service – Community Rehabilitation Team

BAND                               Agenda for Change Band 3, starting at £25,760 (37.5 hours per week)

RESPONSIBLE TO           Clinical Team Manager/

Touchstone Deputy Lead for Intensive Support Services.

LOCATION                       Community Rehabilitation Team – Asket Croft, Leeds.

This role is fixed term for up to 3 years, with the possibility of extension.

ABOUT THE SERVICE

The Complex Psychosis Pathway provides a whole system approach to Mental Health Rehabilitation and Assertive Community Treatment in Leeds, which includes Newsam Ward 5 (Level 2 Rehab & relocating to Parkside Lodge), Asket Croft and Asket House inpatient settings, (Level 1 Rehab), the Community Rehabilitation Team and Assertive Outreach Team. The pathway also includes Rehabilitation practitioners embedded within the Community Hubs providing early rehabilitative and reablement interventions and enabling transitions for service users between Community Services and more intensive Assertive Outreach and Community Rehabilitation Support.  These are clinical delivery services.

The pathway includes an out of area /Trust case management role and mental health placement reviewer for people with complex psychosis who are placed in Level 2 rehabilitation Independent Hospitals outside of the Trust or in funded residential placements.

In addition, Leeds Recovery College, Arts and Minds and the Volunteers Service are included within the pathway, providing innovative networks supporting social inclusion and a recovery ethos, while continuing to serve the citywide populations of Leeds, LYPFT and care services directorates.

The pathway provides treatment, intervention and vocational opportunities for people and their families living with complex needs, associated with psychosis and with significant reductions in quality of life, described within NICE guidance as “severe and treatment resistant symptoms”. Many people also experience other serious and cooccurring conditions that severely affect activities of daily living, social functioning, physical health, welfare, and limit vocational opportunities.

The pathway provides a strong recovery ethos, with flexibility for differing levels of need and longer-term support where necessary, and in the least restrictive environment possible. The pathway aims to provide a whole person approach  working together with individuals and their families on agreed goals that improve mental and physical health, welfare, social inclusion and psychological wellbeing that maximises independence and quality of life.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The role of the Recovery Worker is to deliver specific components of prescribed care packages under the direct supervision of Senior Rehabilitation Practitioners and Clinical Leads. The post holder will provide formalised support and assistance to service users in order for them to take control over their own lives and engage actively in their unique recovery process.

We welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental health difficulties and the service encourages the use of the wisdom gained through personal ‘lived’ experience, to inspire hope in others and the belief that recovery is possible for all. Within a relationship of mutuality the peer support model can facilitate and support information sharing to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles with connection to local communities.

The post holder will be part of the Community Rehabilitation Team and will work into the Level 1 and Level 2 inpatient units and in the community with service users that present with complex needs.  The post requires effective liaison with service users, carers, and other professionals and agencies as required.  It will involve the provision of psychological based care, offering therapeutic time to a defined client group working at all times within the principles of recovery.

The service provision is delivered 7 days per week between the hours of 8 – 6pm, the post holder will be required to work flexibly over these hours

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• To support the Community Rehabilitation Team and wider Complex Psychosis Pathway workforce in co-facilitating community-based groups accessed by service users across the whole service. To consult with the lead occupational therapists and/or healthy living advisors in the planning, implementation and evaluation of groups.

• To promote social inclusion for clients by facilitating and supporting access to a variety of community-based opportunities including work, social groups, education, spiritual pursuits, leisure activities to ensure holistic wellbeing.

• To participate in the delivery of care plans including attendance and contribution within the meeting and the subsequent care plan.

• To participate in Personalised Care Framework meetings as required.

• To carry out the collection, delivery, and monitoring of service user’s medication under the Trust policy guidelines. Liaising with the team to report any concerns with client’s medication and wellbeing as well as the relevant providers i.e. pharmacies.

• To promote the physical health and wellbeing for clients by facilitating and supporting access to relevant screenings and information around medication, diet, nutrition, exercise, sensible drinking and smoking cessation.

• To participate as requested, in multidisciplinary reviews and other clinical meetings to ensure effective communication and a comprehensive approach to service users’ care.

• Ensure that the recovery goals of the service user you support are integrated into the Trust’s Personalised Care Framework process and are reviewed on a regular basis, liaising closely with rehabilitation practitioners as necessary.

• To assist the rehabilitation practitioners and ward-based staff in the delivery of planned care, under their supervision.

• To raise awareness of recovery language with Trust staff by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, non-medicalised language in all areas of work.

• To maintain communication and links with parent organisation if not directly employed through LYPFT.

• To contribute to the maintenance of a therapeutic environment and to be proactive in developing positive links within the community that will enhance the service user experience.

• To participate in team meetings as required to ensure effective communication and running of the team/service.

• To provide support for the team as required and under the direction of the senior team members.

• To carry out tasks relating to an individual’s care package under the direction of senior team members such as rehabilitation practitioners.

• To work on a 1:1 or in groups with service users facilitating delegated tasks.

• To independently manage delegated tasks and seek support and supervision when complex situations arise.

• To maintain standards set by senior clinicians.