Band 3 Community Support Recovery Worker - Deaf services
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This is a 6-month fixed-term opportunity to join the Deaf Community Recovery Team. As a Community Recovery Worker, you will provide individual support to Deaf service users in both inpatient and community settings, promoting their mental health recovery and independence. The role involves supporting transitions to discharge, facilitating social and leisure activities, and working across a wide catchment area to promote social inclusion. You will also schedule and facilitate therapeutic recovery-focused interventions for Deaf BSL users under supervision.
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2, plus significant and demonstrable care experience in an NHS or Private Health Care setting Or NVQ level 3 in Health Care Native/fluent BSL user or BSL level 2 qualification
Desirable criteria
- NVQ level 3 BSL Level 3
- Experience of working within Deaf Services
- Experience of working within a community mental health team
- Skills and knowledge
- Demonstrates interest in working with deaf service users
- Demonstrates Deaf Awareness
- Training and Qualifications
- NVQ level 2, plus significant and demonstrable care experience in an NHS or Private Health Care setting Or NVQ level 3 in Health Care Native/fluent BSL user or BSL level 2 qualification
- NVQ level 3 BSL Level 3
- Experience of working within Deaf Services
- Experience of working within a community mental health team
- Skills and knowledge
- Demonstrates interest in working with deaf service users
- Demonstrates Deaf Awareness
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Band 3 Community Support Recovery Worker - Deaf services
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
A rare and exciting opportunity is now available for you to join our Deaf Community Recovery Team on a 6 month fixed term basis. As a Community Recovery Worker you will support our patients holistic needs within a community catchment area covering a third of England. We are a National Deaf tertiary Service blended with a 12 bed mixed inpatient ward based at the The Barberry.
Main duties of the job
- To provide individual support to the Deaf Service users within both inpatient and community settings, in their own homes to promote their Mental Health recovery and independence.
- To support transition to discharge from the inpatient ward and facilitate joint working.
- To positively promote the independent living of service users within the community, facilitate social and leisure activities for service users and to focus on their direct needs.
- To work across across boundaries of care to promote social inclusion and independence and maximise the effectiveness of services within available resources.
- To assist in the provision of quality evidence-based practice, providing advice and support and care for service users with health and social care needs, and their carers within multidisciplinary
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