Senior Recovery Navigator

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic senior Recovery navigator. These new posts are initially funded through the Community Mental Health Framework until April 2026 with the possibility of further funding beyond that date. You will work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team delivering specialist interventions, ensuring that services are tailored to individuals cultural and social needs. The post is part of the Bristol Community Rehabilitation Service and this role will be focussed on working with people from across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire who are currently admitted to out of area rehabilitation placements or returning to their home localities from these placements. The Community Rehabilitation Team includes a wide range of skilled and highly motivated staff including Peer Workers, Recovery Navigators, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Social Worker, a Consultant Psychiatrist, and Clinical Psychologists.

Main duties of the job

This role will focus primarily upon supporting service users who have been living in specialist funded Out of Area Placements (OAPs) to successfully support their return to living within their home locality. This work will cover the areas of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. An 'out of area placement' (OAP) occurs when a person with acute mental health needs who requires inpatient care is admitted to a unit that does not form part of the usual local network of NHS commissioned services. This means that the person cannot be visited regularly by their care coordinator to ensure continuity of care and effective discharge planning. We expect that service users should instead live and by supported in a location that helps them to maintain contact with family, carers and friends, and to maintain connection their local neighbourhoods and communities. The government has set a national ambition to eliminate inappropriate use of OAPs in mental health services for people who require rehabilitation support, replacing this with locally based support what enables achievement of recovery goals.

About us

Second Step is a leading mental health charity in the South West offering housing, support and hope to thousands of people with mental health and other support needs. Our goal is to inspire hope and deliver change for everybody and every community we work with.