Roles in CAMHS
Support and/or Recovery worker
About the role...
A support and/or recovery worker helps young people with mental health problems or a learning disability through offering practical support and advice as they help to improve young people lives in the local community.
As a key role you will be helping young people to understand what they need and help them build relationships, working with families and friend and recording information and updating records.
You will work in clinics and the local community and spend time also in the young persons home.
What qualifications do I need?
There are no set entry requirements to become a support, and recovery worker. However, having a qualification in healthcare and/or relevant experience can be useful.
In CAMHS we would want to see that you have experience of mental health services. This could be from working with young people with mental health issues, either paid or voluntary. Your experience could also be from your personal circumstances - looking after someone with mental health issues or dealing with your own mental health issues.
However we would like people to have good literacy and numeracy. With ongoing support and training, your skills and knowledge would be invested in and you would work towards Level 2 or 3 health qualifications via an apprenticeship.
Through this training you would be able to work towards assistant practitioner or towards a mental health nurse which would need additional educational investment.
What experience do I need to bring?
As a support and recovery worker we would need you to be:
• willing to work with people with challenging behaviour
• able to motivate people to make changes in their lives
• accepting of other peoples lifestyles
• understanding of people with mental health issues
• flexible and adaptable to deal with unpredictable situations
• resilient
• calm in stressful situations
You'll also need
• very good communication skills, including listening
• accurate report-writing skills
• practical skills for everyday living
• problem-solving skills