Job summary
- Main area
- Community Recovery - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7370747
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bluebell Primary Care Resource Centre
- Town
- Huyton, Liverpool
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/08/2025
Employer heading

Support, Time & Recovery Worker
Band 3
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
Are you interested in joining a dynamic Recovery team, supporting adults 18+ within Knowsley? The Recovery Team works collaboratively with individuals and their families/carers who experience complex mental health problems. the team work within the new community mental health framework approach (CMHF) and are recovery based which incorporate biopsychosocial interventions.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, caring and proactive Support Time Recovery Worker to engage with our client group - age 18+
The successful candidate will work within our multi disciplinary team and hold a caseload of service users for time limited pieces of work. This work will be directly supported by the team Mental Health Practitioners and other clinical practitioners within the team. Your work will include supporting the physical wellbeing of service users.
Main duties of the job
Reducing social isolation/loneliness by supporting the person with social re-engagement
Introducing the person to community resources
Signposting and supporting people to groups within the community and accompanying them to groups initially to build confidence
Supporting person to leave the house to increase confidence as part of graduated program
To carry out anxiety management
To identify and develop lists of appropriate community resources available within the area
To introduce people to new hobbies /interests/ activities and link them with Life Rooms and other appropriate local provision
To support the person to develop social networks
To support the person to structure time/planning for week to increase engagement
To help facilitate transfers back into primary care services
Taking and recording physical health measurements.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Health and Social Care Level 2 qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Care Certificate
- Phlebotomy trained
- Physical Health competency basic passport
- MEWS
- Level 2 Smoking Cessation
- Good standard of education
- Qualification in craft, domestic skills, leisure or health equivalent to City & Guild Part 1, or 2 year experience working in a health setting
- Willing to work towards Level 3 Health Care qualification
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a care setting
- Understanding of issues of confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Experience of individuals with mental health problems or personal lived experience of mental health problems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
- Ability to work on own initiative under the supervision of a qualified practitioner
- Ability to provide support and guidance to junior staff
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paula Farley / Courtnie Claydon
- Job title
- Operational Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 351 8600
- Additional information
Courtnie Claydon - [email protected]
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