Mental Health Recovery Enablement Worker

Job overview

As part of community mental health transformation we are seeking to develop the community rehabilitation pathway across Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust with a particular focus on individuals with treatment resistant psychosis and frequent admissions or long stays in inpatient units locally, and out of county.

There is a plan for the future that the community rehabilitation to form part of a wider team within the intensive assertive pathway, which will lead to some exciting changes and opportunities, and we can discuss this further during the interview process.

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As the Mental Health Recovery Enablement Worker the main duties will include:

• To act as mental health liaison for statutory and VCSE services
• To facilitate access to GHC services and activities to meet the needs of service users and carers within statutory and non-statutory community and in-patient settings and services.
• To improve pathways for people in mental distress who may be at risk of relapse or disengagement, by providing liaison between the Voluntary and Community Sector Services who work with, and engage with these individuals, and Statutory Mental Health Services
• To work alongside a number of service users on a one to one or group basis towards identified recovery goals 
• Actively engage with service users including those that are placed out of area or in in-patient settings experiencing significant mental illness and complex psychosis

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.