Community Clinical Support Worker - DIST Team

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Bury; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a passionate team as a Community Clinical Support Worker in West Suffolk, providing essential support to individuals with dementia in their homes. You'll work autonomously to maintain independence and prevent hospital admissions, building trust with service users and their families while managing your own workload.

Benefits

NHS pension

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days

Staff physiotherapy service

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in community-based support roles.
• Ability to engage with service users and families.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships and engage with individuals and their families.
• Provide intensive short-term, goal-oriented support.
• Manage your own workload effectively.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Autonomy

Job description

Community Clinical Support Worker - DIST Team

Job summary

Community Clinical Support Worker - Dementia Intensive Support Team - West Suffolk

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the West Suffolk Dementia Intensive Support Team. You will join a motivated and passionate multi-disciplinary team working to achieve positive outcomes for service users and their carers.

The team is community-based and works in individuals' homes to prevent breakdown of care and support, promote independence, and stabilize situations to prevent hospital admissions and premature moves into long-term care.

The role involves working with service users, building trust and rapport, and enabling them to have appropriate care and support in place to maintain their independence. It involves working with practitioners but managing your own workload and working autonomously in the community.

Main duties of the job

1. Undertake work as guided by Practitioners with a clear role from the outset.
2. Build relationships and engage with individuals and their families.
3. Provide intensive short-term, goal-oriented support to the person.
4. Explore and understand needs and risks for individuals.
5. Test out and trial care and support with individuals, then hand over to external agencies.
6. Support people to access local community resources.
7. Demonstrate and transfer knowledge and skills to other carers/family members.
8. Be flexible and adaptable in your support.
9. Highlight concerns or risks to the responsible Practitioner.
10. Record notes of visits and input onto the computer system promptly.
11. Manage your own workload effectively.

About us

Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team that shares experiences and learns from each other.

Why work for us?

We face challenges but have ambitious aspirations, exciting transformation work, and need dedicated individuals to support us. We have strong nursing networks and an exceptional leadership team that cares for and about our staff.

Benefits

• NHS pension
• Comprehensive training programs
• Career progression
• Starting annual leave of 27 days, increasing to 33 days based on service, plus paid bank holidays
• Staff physiotherapy service
• NHS discounts and more

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?

The area is warm and welcoming, close to coastline and countryside, within an hour and a half of London. It offers rich history, independent cafes, shops, theatres, excellent shopping, dining, top schools, and affordable housing.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health services for a population of 1.6 million. The Dementia Intensive Support Team works within the community to meet the needs of people with dementia and their carers. The main role involves engaging with service users and their families to enable care and support to maintain independence at home, assessing needs and risks, and working autonomously.

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