Band 4 Support Time Recovery Worker – Acute Day Services: Sponsorship Available

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Recovery support worker to join the Acute Day Services Team at Zinnia centre and Small heath Health Centre.

The role will be within Day Service Team team offering support to patients from Acute and Urgent care settings; the applicant must have significant experience of working within a health/social care setting, and it is desirable that you have experience or knowledge of working with Mental Health issues. The post holder will take responsibility for an identified psych ed group session and provide outreach and signposting to third sector support services.

You will be working alongside a highly skilled and experienced multi-disciplinary team of Nursing, Psychiatry, Occupational Therapy and Psychology to collaboratively set goals with patients to aid recovery .

Main duties of the job

You will ensure that there are effective care pathways to a range of services that will enhance individual recovery. This will be achieved by ensuring close liaison with identified partners and community organisations including employment /training providers, housing and mental health. You will also provide low intensity psychosocial interventions to service users on caseload. You will be able to signpost services users to the appropriate facilities and provide support and help through a CBT approach.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • Appropriate diploma level qualification in health or social care
  • Significant experience of working within a health/social care setting, for EG. HCA/OTTO/Assistant Psychologist

Desirable

  • Experience of working within a Mental Health Setting
  • knowledge of housing/benefits system/local resources
  • Phlebotomy trained
  • Completion of counselling course or equivalent

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 8 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.