Job summary
- Main area
- CAMHS
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-CAMHS-7337727-FZ
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £31,944 - £34,937 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Recovery Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 4
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
You would be joining a new Community Intensive Support Service for children and young people (CYP) with Autism residing in Merton, Wandsworth, Sutton, Kingston, and Richmond. The CAMHS Dynamic Support Team is a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team that offers specialist intensive interventions for Children and Young People already under community tier 3 CAMHS and on the Dynamic Support register.
We are pleased to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic, experienced, and committed Senior Recovery Support Worker to join the Dynamic Support Team and to be at the forefront of developing the service alongside the rest of the team.
You will work with highly skilled mental health professionals who are committed to supporting home and community-based care, facilitating safe discharge, and reducing young people’s length of stay, should admission become necessary. It is essential to be committed to safe and effective team working. The role includes individual, family and group work and the provision of telephone support to young people.
The service will help shape an effective and consistent model of care in South-West London, which aims to bridge the gap between community services and inpatient care, whilst also strengthening longer term local services for autistic young people.
The service operates 5 days a week 9-5pm
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the role:
- To be a member of the Dynamic Support Team, working closely with the multi-disciplinary team to provide treatment and support to a small group of young people, families, cares agencies or services around the young person.
- To provide highly specialist clinical services to a small number of children, young people identified through the Dynamic Support Register with a diagnosis of ASD and their families / carers across all sectors of care.
- Providing support in a crisis, supporting young people and families at home to manage periods of distress and upset, and to develop positive ways of managing and coping.
- Co-facilitating therapeutic groups or activities.
- The post holder will also work very closely with families/carers to help support and provide support with responding to a young person’s needs
- This role involves independent daily travel across South West London and involves some lone working, within a close supervision structure.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our location:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
The Adolescent Outreach Team base is at Springfield University Hospital and our inpatient adolescent unit, Aquarius, is also on the site. This role involves independent daily travel across South West London. We often also visit other sites within the Trust, mainly - Tolworth Hospital, Surbiton; Richmond Royal, Richmond or Livingstone House, Teddington; Jubilee Health Centre, Wallington; Cricket Green Polyclinic, Mitcham
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To carry our individual programmes of care.
- To be able to work in a supportive and education way with families/carers.
- To perform delegated duties without direct supervision from qualified staff within the home/community.
- To be proactive in gathering information on and creating positive working relationships with local services, and activities for young people.
- To support and assist young people with enquiries or access to other services.
- To maintain professional working relationships with all staff, parents/carers, young people, and other agencies
- To attend and contribute to clinical team meetings.
- To maintain professional standards in accordance with the Trust’s code of conduct for health care assistants.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of mental health services or demonstrable interest in mental health either paid or voluntary.
- • Experience of Autism services, or demonstratable interest in Autism either paid or voluntary.
- • To be knowledgeable /understanding about the factors that cause/impact on mental health problems and associated interventions.
- • Experience of developing relationships with a wide variety of people and organisations.
- • Proven ability to recognise and manage risk.
- • Ability to work on own initiative without direct supervision, understanding where clinical input is needed.
Desirable criteria
- • Personal experience of mental health problems and use of Mental Health Services
- • Personal experience of use of Autism services.
- • Experience of working as a Recovery Support (STR) Worker
- • Previous experience of working in Health or Social Care settings in paid or voluntary position.
- • Demonstrate knowledge/understanding of: a) Awareness of the Mental Health Act and its use in practice or b) equivalent Health or Social Care legislation appropriate to service area
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Education to GCSE level or equivalent (with minimum of 5 A-E qualifications which must include Maths and English)
- • Achieved NVQ Level 3 Health and Social Care or equivalent plus post qualifications or further study/training to diploma level or NVQ level 4 in Mental Health and/or WLMHT Assistant Practitioner Course
- • OR Equivalent level of experience
- • Evidence of consistent pattern of learning from Education, training and experience.
- • Care Certificate (to be completed within 6 months of starting the role).
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to demonstrate competency in specific clinical skills relating to role
- • Computer qualifications or experience/skills
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanna Campbell
- Job title
- Lead Specialist Occupational Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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