Recovery Support Workers (Mental Health) x 8 - Recovery House

Hours: 37.5 or 18.75 hours per week

The Recovery House is a brand new exciting and innovative service for Birmingham Mind and is an opportunity to create a flagship standard of support and care for those in mental health crisis. The Recovery House is commissioned by the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust and is part of their Urgent Care pathway. Working closely with the Recovery House Team the role is pivotal to the effective and safe delivery of the service.

About the role

The role of Recovery Support Worker will work as part of a team in our regulated services and is an important role for the delivery of recoverybased and prevention services within Birmingham Mind. The role will be central to the smooth running of the 24/7 service provided by Recovery House.

You will support the Waking Night team of Recovery Support Workers in providing a continuous and safe delivery of support always ensuring high quality and personcentred care. Ensuring that compliance and adherence to CQC standards is upheld and provide appropriate information to managers. You will work in a personcentred way alongside colleagues an NHS clinical partners to deescalate mental health crisis and help service users to return home and be pivotal in the provision of a welcoming calm and safe environment.

The Recovery Support Worker will support the team in mobilising the service and work in a way that conforms with the expectations of the CQC NHS and Birmingham Mind standards. You will take an active part in all appropriate meetings and create and implement service user assessments and support practices.

About you

You will need to be skilful in quickly developing strong relationships with users of the service and able to support the deescalation of crisis and the provision of a calm and supportive environment; delivering person centred interventions.

We are looking for someone who experience in delivering services in a CQC regulated residential or supported living environment who has experience of working in partnership with key stakeholders and partner organisations. You will be knowledgeable in and committed to the Recovery Model of mental health support and be experienced in delivering person centred care. You will be able to provide a caring and compassionate care to service users with the ability to provide and maintain a highquality environment at short notice.

This role will involve working on a rota including some evenings and weekends.

Staff benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme PayCare which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments an Employee Assistance Programme that includes free counselling a cycle to work scheme and a comprehensive training programme.

Birmingham Mind is extremely proud to have a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities that we work with. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges as their perspectives enrich our teams. We are also committed to changing the ethnic diversity of our management team and particularly encourage applicants from minority communities to apply for this role.

Our people are key to the success of the organisation and we are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. We welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.

Closing date for applications is Wednesday 21st May 2025

We were founded in 1962and are a Registered Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee affiliated toMind. If you would like to know more about our History you can do so by downloading ourA History of Birmingham Mindbooklet.

Our Servicesare individualised person centred and deliver valued outcomes as we passionately believe that everyone has the right to live lives that are meaningful and which enable them to reach their full potential as individuals.

We work in active partnership with a range of local organisations to deliver services and challenge the stigma that surrounds mental distress.