Support Time Recovery Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Please be aware this post does not offer sponsorship as this is a band 3 position.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role involves working as a Support Time Recovery Worker within the Mental Health Team (MHT+) in South West Kent. You will support service users in their recovery journey, helping them identify needs, plan care, and build support networks within their community. The position focuses on empowering individuals and delivering psychologically informed interventions under professional guidance. You will work across shared pathways to provide secondary mental health services.
Essential criteria
- NVQ L2 or L3 in mental health and social care award or equivalent
- Ability to demonstrate a good level of English and Maths skills
Desirable criteria
- Training and Qualifications
- Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Ability to form professional relationships with other professionals including the local MDT
- Experience of working in community mental health
- Experience in delivery psychologically informed interventions
- Training and Qualifications
- NVQ L2 or L3 in mental health and social care award or equivalent
- Ability to demonstrate a good level of English and Maths skills
- Training and Qualifications
- Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Ability to form professional relationships with other professionals including the local MDT
- Experience of working in community mental health
- Experience in delivery psychologically informed interventions
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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Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Support Time Recovery Worker
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for a Support Time Recovery Worker to join our Mental Health Team(MHT+) , covering the South West Kent area.
You will work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users working across boundaries of care, organisation and role.
You will provide support and give time to the allocated group of service users in order to promote recovery and support them in their community environment and provide support to service users to identify their needs and assist clinicians to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
You will have the individual service users needs at the forefront at all times, working to the recovery model to support the service user to work towards their identified goals, using the agreed values and skills to underpin day to day work.
The role will give you the opportunity to be actively involved in the delivery of psychologically informed interventions with the support and guidance of a Psychologist or Occupational Therapist.
Main duties of the job
- Work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users, working across shared pathways in Mental Health Together PLUS.
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