Mental Health Recovery Navigator

Mental Health Recovery Navigator

An excellent Support Provider in Bristol are recruiting for a Mental Health Recovery Navigator to join their team in delivering recovery and wellbeing opportunities for people with mental health and other support needs to achieve their hopes and ambitions

Location: Bristol

Contract duration: 6 Month FTC

Hours: 37 (Monday to Friday 9am-5pm with some weekend cover)

Salary: £24,888 to £25,583 pro rata

Vacancy ref number: J68893

Day to day responsibilities include:

• Build trusting and collaborative relationship with the service users
• Co-produce, implement and review recovery plan, crisis plan and other self-management tools e.g. Wellness Recovery Action Plan, in partnership with service users
• Case manage and co-ordinate support, referring and liaising effectively with all professionals, agencies and other parties involved
• Identify, assess, contribute, maintain, feedback and manage risk to ensure risk is minimised
• Have up-to-date safeguarding training and ensure that Safeguarding policies and procedures are fully adhered
• Enable delivery of the recovery plan and to enable service users to make informed decisions about their mental wellbeing, maximising their independence and providing advocacy role where appropriate
• Manage caseload, documentation and time effectively, ensuring up to date and clear record keeping
• Collaborate with other team members to maximise service performance, meet targets and Service Level Agreements and promote effective communication and teamwork
• Maintain hope and optimism for the individual with high expectations for recovery and use lived experience (if appropriate) to positively support the individual’s recovery

Essential criteria include:

• Proven experience of working with people with multiple needs (e.g. mental health, homelessness, alcohol/drug dependency, rough sleeping)
• Enhanced DBS issued within the last 12 months or on the update service

To apply for this role or to find out about other Housing jobs, please contact Ashleigh Clarke or Paulo Davis from the Bristol Housing recruitment team on 0117 930 8760 or aclarke@venngroup.com

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.