Mental Health Home Recovery Worker (Gozo)

The Malta Trust Foundation is looking to recruit a Mental Health Home Recovery Worker in Gozo to join their team on a part-time basis.

Job Role: 
This role is part of the Sunrise Project of The Malta Trust Foundation and focuses on supporting service users suffering from mental health challenges and their families in their home environment and in the community, with the aim of supporting them to live an independent life.

Main Duties:

• To receive complex referrals from the MHS at Gozo General Hospital of potential mental health service users that would benefit from the Home Support Service
• To meet the service users and their families if required and assess their past and current situation
• To formulate together with the service-users and their respective consultant psychiatrist an individualised care plan that focuses on areas in the service-users living skills that require assistance and support
• To encourage, empower and assist service-users with long-standing complex mental health issues in being compliant with medication
• To provide ongoing psychosocial and practical support in order to reinforce the strengths of the service-user and work for hand in hand with the service-user and respective caregivers to achieve realistic goals
• To provide information to the service-users and their families on mental health
• To encourage the service-users to engage in leisure activities through liaison with respective entities
• To support with accessing the labor market where applicable according to the care plan
• To liaise with different professionals from various entities in the best interest of the service user
• To participate in review meetings on a regular basis
• To record and keep up-to-date case files
• To actively attend regular supervision sessions
• Any other duties that may be required from time to time, depending on the exigencies of the project.

Requirements: 

• A qualification in the Health or Social Sciences
• Driving license and use of own car
• Fluent in spoken Maltese and English.

*The closing date for applications is the 26th of September 2022. Kindly send a motivation letter together with a curriculum vitae, a recent police conduct certificate, and a reference by email.

The Malta Trust Foundation:
The Malta Trust Foundation (TMTF) has a specific purpose to develop initiatives that support young people and communities that are facing particular challenges and who are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The Foundation (TMTF) brings together academics, psychosocial professionals, the business community, and civil society organisations with the aim of delivering a tangible impact in gaps within existing services. The Foundation stresses the importance of not duplicating current services and support, which are already being offered by other entities.  The Foundation seeks to support vulnerable communities through initiatives that are both educational and empowering in aiding individuals to reach their full potential, with an emphasis on projects of a psychosocial nature.  All initiatives are well-defined projects emerging from priorities in the social field, that are well researched, planned, and cost to ensure an efficient and effective service that is sustainable over the years.  The Foundation seeks the assistance of major audit companies to market research and analyse the cost of every initiative.