# Recovery Support Worker

**Company**: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £34186.00 to £37389.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Recovery Support Worker will contribute to the health and wellbeing of patients and service users, delivering high-quality, personalized, safe, and compassionate care.

The role involves:

- Supporting people to improve and maintain their mental, physical, and behavioral health and wellbeing

- Active involvement in the prevention of and protection against disease and ill health

- Engaging in public health, community development, and reducing health inequalities

- Implementing the principles of 'recovery', encouraging and supporting patients to engage with healthy lifestyles

- Advocating for patients' needs and rights within Trust policy

- Encouraging and empowering individuals to take responsibility for their care program

The Trust offers flexible working, career development, and various benefits to enable a positive work environment.

Responsibilities include:

- Acting professionally and adhering to Trust policies

- Making evidence-based decisions and solving problems in the best interests of patients

- Providing person-centered, safe, compassionate care

- Monitoring patients' conditions and health needs

- Communicating effectively with colleagues and patients

- Recognizing and reporting situations that could result in poor care outcomes

Requirements:

- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register

- Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification

- English and Mathematics basic qualifications

- Understanding of the scope of the Nursing Associate role

- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate concerns

Desirable skills and experience:

- Experience in different clinical care settings

- Experience in supervision of staff

- Training and experience in specialist skills such as ECG, Vital Signs, Phlebotomy

- Experience in facilitating groups

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## Skills

### Required
- Nursing Associate
- public health
- community development
- health inequalities
- recovery principles

### Nice to have
- ECG
- Vital Signs
- Phlebotomy
- group facilitation

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