Senior Recovery Worker

The Senior Recovery Mental Health Worker plays a key role within the Urgent and Crisis Team, supporting the delivery of high-quality, safe and recovery-focused mental health care. Working alongside clinicians and members of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder provides practical, person-centred support to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties, distress or crisis. The role involves acting as a second practitioner during crisis assessments, contributing to the assessment process through a recovery-oriented perspective and helping identify social, practical and emotional support needs. The post holder will deliver timely interventions as part of the 72-hour follow-up pathway, supporting individuals following a crisis assessment to access appropriate services, strengthen coping strategies and promote recovery and independence. This role requires excellent communication skills, sound judgement, effective risk awareness, and the ability to build positive therapeutic relationships with service users, carers and partner agencies., The Senior Recovery Mental Health Worker will provide focused support and interventions to individuals experiencing mental health difficulties within the Urgent and Crisis Team. They will work collaboratively with service users, carers, clinicians and external agencies to ensure individuals receive appropriate support, signposting and follow-up care. Key duties include acting as the second practitioner alongside a clinician during crisis assessments, providing information relating to recovery-focused goals, social circumstances and practical support needs. The post holder will deliver telephone and face-to-face interventions for individuals identified for the 72-hour follow-up pathway, helping to reduce distress, promote resilience and facilitate access to appropriate community resources. The role also involves identifying and escalating risks appropriately, maintaining accurate clinical records, completing referrals, supporting care coordination and participating in multidisciplinary team discussions. The post holder will promote recovery principles, social inclusion and person-centred care while contributing to service development, reflective practice, training activities and continuous quality improvement initiatives

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is a major employer and provider of services. Our service users, carers and staff are central, and our values are important, to the delivery of high-quality care. We actively seek out individuals who share these values:

• We work together
• We are respectful and kind
• We are inclusive
• We keep improving