CREST Recovery Worker – Severe Mental Illness 17 views

Job Description

Fixed term up to March 2026, with the possibility of extension.

Touchstone is a multi-award-winning mental health and wellbeing charity operating in communities across Yorkshire.  Touchstone understands that we can only deliver excellence to the people we serve if the people we recruit are happy, empowered, supported to reach their potential and trusted to lead.

The Community Rehabilitation Enhanced Support Team (CREST) is a unique community mental health service providing intensive and flexible wrap around support for individuals across West Yorkshire (Leeds, Kirklees, Calderdale, Wakefield, & Bradford). Many service users have experienced long lengths of stay in locked hospital placements and are disconnected from their community. We work with service users and their family and carers prior to discharge, supporting them into step down provision and beyond.

The service works across two pathways, supporting people with Serious Mental Illness, and Complex Emotional Needs. These roles will be within our Serious Mental Illness pathway, and recovery workers will empower individuals so they can define, build, and live meaningful, independent, and satisfying lives closer to their community, by providing emotional and practical support to service users.

Information Session: Tuesday 29 October, 1:00pm via MS Teams
To attend, please email recruitment@touchstonesupport.org.uk for a link.

Benefits

As an employee of Touchstone, all successful applicants continually benefit from the following:

• Personal wellbeing budget
• 28 days annual leave (rising to 31 after 2 years) + 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
• Agile working policy
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to counselling and 24/7 confidential staff Mindful Employer helpline
• Health and wellbeing and fun organisational staff away days
• Inclusive maternity and parental policies and pay
• A full range of staff and peer support networks
• Excellent staff engagement
• Lots of learning and development opportunities

How To Apply

Touchstone is an equal opportunities organisation, a Trans Positive employer and applications are welcome from all sections of the community, particularly, BME and LGBT communities and/or people with disabilities who are under-represented within Touchstone. Further information can be obtained from our equal opportunities policy. Please note that we do not hold a sponsor licence and we do not intend to offer sponsorship for this particular role. You should therefore ensure that you have/will have the right to work in the UK to be able to undertake this role, if appointed, you will be required to provide relevant right to work documents at the point of an offer being made to you. Applications can be obtained by e-mailing recruitment@touchstonesupport.org.uk.