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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref
354-AB-20980
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Mill View Hospital
Town
Hove
Salary
£27,485 - £30,162 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/10/2025 08:00

Employer heading

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Support Time Recover Worker

NHS AfC: Band 4

Come and join us

We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge? We are looking to recruit 1 x Support Time Recovery workers into our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team covering Brighton & Hove.

Our crisis resolution and home treatment teams (CRHTs) are designed to provide safe and effective care to patients in their own home when experiencing a mental health crisis and would otherwise need to be admitted to hospital.

We offer home visits, medical reviews, psychology input and telephone support and facilitate supportive discharge from hospital and managing the transition back to community-based services. We work in close partnership with our Acute Care and Community Mental Health teams and we are often the link between the two.

Our teams consist of support workers, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, peer and carer support workers, mental health nurses doctors  and psychologists. 

Main duties of the job

Your role will involve supporting patients and the wider multidisciplinary team with their complex caseload. You will undertake duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis and with medication related matters. Your role will also involve supporting with running of groups and providing long term social and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.

Working for our organisation

The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Living & Working in Brighton:

  • Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractions
  • Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstep
  • Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Key staff survey results include:

  • 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
  • 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
  • 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To support, guide and liaise with Foundation STR Workers as part of the Foundation Workers overall support and development programme.
  • To positively promote the recovery and independent living of service users within the community.
  • To support service users in engaging effectively with their individual person centred care plan, and enable them to give feedback to their care co-ordinators on the care plan
  • To be responsible for liaising with and providing information to other agencies involved in the support of the service user.
  •  To adhere to the recovery principles and therefore support and enable individuals to regain control, responsibility, hope and enjoyment.
  • To develop meaningful relationships with service users within appropriate and transparent boundaries, and to seek support and use supervision to facilitate these relationships.
  • To provide regular and practical support to service users and their carers (as appropriate) in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self respect. This includes support with the tasks of daily living.
  • To support service users in meeting holistic needs (education, welfare, financial, leisure, housing, spiritual etc) in partnership with other individuals and agencies.
  • To promote physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being.
  •  To support service users in identifying early signs of relapse and in accessing timely support from range of other individuals and agencies. To support service user in identifying possible triggers or cause of relapse.
  •  To maintain accurate records as required by existing policy, entering appropriate details on the service user’s case notes as necessary.
  •  To attend staff meetings, agreed training and development sessions and supervision.
  • To contribute to service development as an equal partner alongside service users and carers.
  • To undertake any such other duties as may be determined on occasion within the general scope of the post.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria
  • NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development (A,I)

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working with people with mental health problems

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kimann Jones
Job title
CRHT Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 304 0081
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