Female Recovery Navigator

We have a rewarding opportunity available for a Female Recovery Navigator to join our Community Rehabilitation Team based in Bristol. You will join us on a full time permanent basis working 37.5 hours per week and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £25,359 - £27,449 per annumand benefits.

Missing Link provides practical advice and support to individuals to allow them to maintain a rich and meaningful life. The aim is to deliver recovery and wellbeing opportunities for people with mental health and other support needs to achieve their hopes and ambitions.

In return for joining us as our Female Recovery Navigator, we will offer you the following fantastic benefits:

• Up to 30 days annual leave (depending on length of service)
• 3 extra holidays including International Women’s Day
• Excellent development and training opportunities
• Employer pension contribution (minimum 5% of your gross salary)
• Mindful Employer Plus Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Long Service Awards

About the Female Recovery Navigator role:

As ourRecovery Navigator you will focus on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with long term mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.

Key duties and responsibilities of our Female Recovery Navigator:

• Building trusting and collaborative relationships with the service users.
• Co-producing, implementing and reviewing recovery plans, crisis plans and other self-management tools e.g. Wellness Recovery Action Plan, in partnership with service users in line with best practice.
• Case managing and co-ordinating support, referring and liaising effectively with all professionals, agencies and other parties involved in service user’s support in order to deliver the support package. Working closely with colleagues within the service and build strong partnership working with other agencies such as Health and Social Care, Voluntary and Community Service. Support/ facilitate service users to access services.
• Identifying, assessing, contributing, maintaining feedback and managing risk to ensure risk is minimised. Working in a safe manner using a positive risk-taking approach, ensuring the health and safety policies of Second Step and Missing Link are implemented and fully adhered to, to ensure all safeguarding issues are properly managed.

What we are looking for in our ideal Female Recovery Navigator:

• Numeracy and literacy to GCSE level/NVQ 2 or equivalent
• Proven knowledge of support needs of people with mental health needs.
• Proven knowledge of health and safety issues, especially those relevant to mental health
• Proven knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures relating to adults and children and young people
• Knowledge and understanding of the particular needs of working with vulnerable women
• Proven experience of working with victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence
• Proven experience of carrying out needs and/or risk assessments and the support planning process
• A current, full driving licence and access to appropriate motorised vehicular transport (such as a car, moped or motorbike) (desirable)

Closing date: 9am, Monday 3rd June 2024

Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 10th June 2024

Please apply now to join us as our Female Recovery Navigatorand contribute to the valuable work Missing Link and its wider services do.

Missing Link is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Missing Link is committed to Equal opportunities. *Due to the specific requirements of this role, this post is exempt under the Equality Act (2010), Part 1, Schedule 9 (Genuine Occupational Requirement)