Recovery Worker

Overview

The role empowers service users to manage their wellbeing, build independence, and achieve personal goals through tailored support and co-produced plans. It involves liaising with external agencies, facilitating group and community-based activities, and promoting social inclusion. The position ensures users understand and engage with the service, while actively monitoring safety and wellbeing. Team collaboration and flexibility are essential to meeting service goals and maintaining high standards of care.

• Liaise with external agencies, facilitate group and community-based activities, and promote social inclusion for service users.
• Support service users to understand and engage with the service, and monitor safety and wellbeing.
• Collaborate with the team and remain flexible to help meet service goals and maintain high standards of care.

• Shortlisting call:
  We have a team of dedicated recruitment specialists who will speak to you about your experience, motivations and values. They will also tell you about all the great work we do!
• Face to face interview:
  Now you will have face to face interview with the hiring manager. Our interviews are value and competency based.
• Don’t be alarmed if there are other stages in the process, it’s all part of the plan for some of our roles.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:
Our service 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 that different people and communities bring to our organisation. We are a disability confident employer.

Hestia is proud to be a disability confident employer, dedicated to the employment and career development of individuals with disabilities. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for all applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role they have applied for. We also provide reasonable adjustments during the selection and interview process, and throughout your employment with us.

Safeguarding Statement:
Hestia is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people who are potentially at risk, and we therefore expect all staff and volunteers to do the same. We require all staff to undertake internal and external safeguarding training throughout their employment with Hestia.

If your application is successful, please be aware that you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks before a formal offer of employment can be confirmed.

You need to be able to demonstrate the core skills this role requires as well as match our values and mission. You don’t have to tick all the boxes right away; the important thing is that you’re willing to learn. We also value lived experience of the areas we support, so if you feel comfortable, please mention this in your application.

You should be passionate and dedicated to helping others with good empathy and a willingness to learn. This role involves sleeping on site overnight between shifts and has longer shift schedules with an element of cooking for a group; you must be capable and open to doing this as well.

At Hestia, we are guided by our core values and are dedicated to fostering an equitable, diverse, and inclusive organisation. Our mission is to empower individuals to rebuild their lives and achieve independence. Right now, we are looking for a Recovery Worker to play a pivotal role in our Complex Needs Service in Ealing.