Recovery Worker, Bexley

We are Hestia. We make a difference.

At Hestia, we live by our values and are committed to a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive organisation that provides a variety of services such as Domestic Abuse, Modern Slavery, Mental Health & Complex Needs and Criminal Justice. We are committed to empower people to rebuild their lives and regain independence. 

The service you will work in….

Blackfen Recovery House is a 7 bed Accommodation owned and operated by Hestia Housing and Support. The service is commissioned by Oxleas trust to provide non-clinical support to adults experiencing a mental health crisis, to stay for up to 5 days.

Support includes non-clinical interventions using wide range of techniques, support to self-manage medication and onwards referrals and signposting. Referrals into Blackfen Recovery House (BRH) come from Bromley, Greenwich and Bexley Mental Health Teams and the home treatment teams from these 3 boroughs visit to assess and review their patients daily.

A day in this role looks like….

As a Recovery Worker at Hestia, you will play a crucial role in our Mental Health and Complex Needs service. Your contributions will directly influence the lives of our service users, guiding them towards a path of empowerment and independence. 

A day will never look the same and some of the things you can expect to do/be responsible for are:

• Provide excellent quality support and interventions to clients experiencing or likely to experience a mental health crisis as an alternative to inpatient admission.
• Support clients to reduce their crisis and to make plans to avoid future crisis.
• Liaise with statutory and other voluntary sector providers of mental health services to promote multi-agency working for the benefit of the customers.
• Carry out support and interventions in line with organisational values and ethos of recovery and co-production.
• Support clients from the moment of referral and intake to the crisis house, ensuring that they are inducted into the building and that their immediate physical and emotional needs are met.
• Motivate clients to identify causes of crises and to prevent these issues triggering crisis in the future.
• Develop simple and effective safety plans with the individual users to proactively manage their mental health and wellbeing and to avoid the use of crisis services such as A&E.
• Carry out individual one to one sessions with clients and, where appropriate, to support them to develop their own wellness, recovery action plan.

Why Hestia?

Joining Hestia means more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to be part of something bigger. We offer a supportive, inclusive and resolution driven work environment where your contributions are recognised and valued. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to grow both personally and professionally while making a lasting impact on the lives of those we serve.

We are looking for candidates who bring a combination of passion, expertise, and dedication to the table. To excel in this role, you should possess:

• Demonstrable experience of supporting people with mental health and complex needs.
• A strong understanding of Recovery approaches and co-production incl. knowledge of issues affecting those individuals.
• The ability to create and deliver activities with clients which help them reduce anxieties, develop their confidence and self-esteem and help them to plan for a self-defined recovery journey.
• The ability to keep and transpose all monitoring requirements into workbooks for internal analysis and reporting to funders.
• The motivation to maintain consistently high delivery standards and service user standards, even when faced with unpredictable behavior and potentially challenging situations.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Our services users come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes us stronger. We are committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and value the skills, abilities, talent and experiences, different people and communities bring to our organisation.

We are a disability confident employer…

Hestia is a disability confident employer, committed to the employment and career development of individual with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for all applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role they have applied for. We will also accommodate reasonable adjustment during the selection and interview process and throughout your employment with us.