Clinical Support Assistant

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust; Wallsend; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Clinical Support Assistant to work within the North Tyneside Recovery Partnership. This role focuses on supporting individuals affected by substance and alcohol misuse with criminal justice involvement. The successful candidate will deliver compassionate care, engage in individual assessments, and support service users towards recovery. Join a diverse and committed team dedicated to high-quality, person-centred care in a dynamic NHS environment.

Benefits

Dynamic working environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to support individuals with diverse presentations and mental health conditions.
• Experience in delivering person-centred care.
• Understanding of the links between offending and substance misuse.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the delivery of care to service users with mental health needs.
• Support clients with criminal justice background in their recovery journey.
• Implement and evaluate care within a team framework.
• Provide compassionate, person-centred care.

Skills

Empathy

Communication skills

Ability to work in a team

Job description

Overview

An opportunity has arisen for a band 3 Clinical Support Assistant to work within our North Tyneside Recovery Partnership. You will work directly into the Criminal Justice Pathway. The role entails working with those affected by substance and alcohol misuse who also have criminal justice involvement/background. You will be expected to support in the providing of safe and effective interventions, harm reduction advice and use of psycho-social interventions to support service users to consider and achieve recovery. There will be expectation within the role to offer an outreach approach The team consists of a well-established mix of professionals that work collaboratively to deliver individualised care. The role involves individualised clinical assessment, care planning, formulation, and collaborative working across the multi-agency team.

Responsibilities

• To assist in the delivery of care to service users who have a variety of needs, diverse presentations and a range of mental health conditions, cognitive and/or learning disabilities under the direction of a registered practitioner
• Supporting those who have a criminal justice background or active criminal justice involvement. Supporting them to consider the links between offending and their alcohol/substance misuse and what changes they may want to change in relation to this
• To implement and evaluate care within a prescribed framework as a member of the care team ensuring that high quality, individualised care is delivered and that this promotes recovery and wellbeing and maximises independence.
• To support the team in providing excellent and effective person-centred care.
• To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
• To actively engage with supervision and appraisal process as identified in Trust policy.

Workforce

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career. NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.