Job summary
- Main area
- Secure Care and Offender Health
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 436-7884278
- Employer
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ardenleigh
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/05/2026
Employer heading
Band 4 STR Worker - PROSPER
Band 4
Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
Support, Time & Recovery (STR) Worker, PROSPER IIRMS Service
Agenda for Change Band 4
1.0 WTE- 37.5 Hours per week
Are you rewarded by supporting people to make positive changes in their lives?
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motived Support, Time & Recovery (STR) worker to join the PROSPER Service. PROSPER is an Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Service (IIRMS) for high-risk adult men and women likely to exhibit the characteristics associated with a diagnosis of personality disorder. The service is a partnership between Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust and The Probation Service and is a multidisciplinary team currently represented by psychology, probation, substance use, occupational therapy and art therapy. The service is part of the national Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway and is a hub-and-spoke service with its hub in Birmingham and the spokes in the wider West Midlands region.
Main duties of the job
Working as a team player, you will need to be highly motivated, non-judgemental, flexible and enthusiastic and work within a psychological framework to aid the recovery and risk management of service users returning to community settings from prisons or secure hospitals. You will support the delivery of evidence-based recovery-focussed interventions and support individuals to achieve positive outcomes and recovery goals based on the multidisciplinary team assessment and formulation of the individual’s needs. The role will involve engaging the service users via in-reach into the prison/hospital before they are released/discharged into the community and continuing to work with them in the community to promote recovery. The role will also involve working proactively with other professionals and services, such as GPs, substance use agencies, DWP, Housing providers, families & carers, friends and peer mentors and other community services to support recovery plans.
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant level 4 qualification or relevant level 3 qualification and extensive experience working within a mental health setting with people with severe and enduring mental health issues.
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a forensic setting/prison/Probation
- Experience of mental health/social/ care services (as a service user/carer)
- Experience of working with service user presenting with challenging behaviour
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to initiate and facilitate social and leisure activities with service users.
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings
Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Works effectively as a member of a team, demonstrating appropriate professional behaviour.
- Able to plan time taking account of other colleagues work plans to achieve the delivery of the service.
Desirable criteria
- Able to use knowledge and skills and mental health experience to provide a programme of activity to engage and support service users to participate in activity.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Bailey
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 301 4591
- Additional information
If you would like any further information, please contact Karen Bailey, Consultant Forensic Psychologist on 0121 301 4591
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