Crisis Recovery Worker
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Location: Oak House, 383 Padiham road, Burnley,BB12 0HU
(Work from Willow house also required if staff shortage).
Working Hours: 37 hours per week (shifts will equate to 37 hours per week over the year)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £24,243 - £28,930 per annum
Please note that interviews will be arranged as we go, therefore the close date is subject to change.
About the service:
Oak house is a mental health crisis recovery house. We offer support for those in crisis from a range of 3-7 days. We are a five bedroom facility, with 24 hour staffing. Waking night staff shifts are a mix of 9:00pm - 07:00am and 10:30pm - 08:30am.
The people we support are central to everything we do. Each person who uses our services is a unique individual and they all deserve to be treated as such. As such, the responsibilities may vary from day to day.
About the role:
Assist people using our services to:
Manage and improve their own physical and mental well-being
Develop life-skills and coping tools to better manage their own mental health, through group and 1:1 interventions.
Live more fulfilling lives and develop new meanings and purposes
Take control over their life, through their own choices and decisions
Ensure the safe running of the service:
Assess resident wellbeing and welfare on an ongoing basis
Keep our service compliant with legal regulations
Provide a safe, respectful environment
Keywork:
Oversee the wellbeing of those in service and complete appropriate sessions.
Concentrate on the person and their individual needs, choices and aspirations, rather than on diagnostic categories or labels
Work with individuals to develop agreed, meaningful and achievable person centred plans with positive outcomes that meet the individuals aspirations
Complete a range of activities during and around sessions
Ensure positive risk assessments are created and implemented in line with our policies and procedures
Signpost people we support to other services for additional support
Maintain the health and safety of the building
Support the team with the daily planning and running of our service.
Manage your own workload:
Plan and carry out your core areas of responsibility
Complete accurate and timely computerised records via our database
Liaise with external agencies - such as community mental health teams, multi-disciplinary teams and carers - building relationships and projecting a positive image of the service
Effectively monitoring and managing your own wellbeing through debriefing and discussions with your manager and colleagues
Keep up to date with organisational developments
To Succeed in This Role, Youll Need:
Abilitytocommunicateeffectivelyatalllevels
Abilitytorespondcompassionatelytosensitiveandcomplexissues
Abletomotivate,supportandadvocateforpeopleusingservices
Able towork effectively unsupervised andas partofateam
Abletokeepgoodandaccuraterecords
Abilitytoplanandprioritiseworkload
Goodinterpersonalandlisteningskills
Abletokeepgoodandaccuraterecords
Abilitytoplanandprioritiseworkload
Abletodemonstrateacommitmenttoself-development&training
Abletodemonstratepersonal&professionalintegrity
Abilitytoworkunderpressure
GoodITskills,includinginWord,theuseofdatabasesandemail
AbletoworkflexiblytomeettheneedsoftheServiceandpeopleusingservices
Abletoparticipateina24hour/7dayweekshiftrota,undertakeoncalldutiesandstayawayfromhomeatnight
To view the full job and person specification, please click here.
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- Location:
- Barley
- Salary:
- £28,000
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Social Care;Social Care