Community Mental Health Support Worker

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Biggleswade; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Mental Health Support Worker to join a forward-thinking team. You will work with secondary mental health services, primary care, and voluntary sector partners to deliver a recovery-focused model of care.

You must be a car driver and own a car. The role involves supporting service users to identify and engage with local community resources and developing independent life skills within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred and holistic care enabling service users to be empowered and follow their recovery goals.
• Support individual service users in identifying, accessing and engaging in support in their local community, fulfilling independent life skills and developing an individual support network.
• Work under minimal supervision, adhering to Trust procedures and policies, and employ value-based and socially inclusive practice.
• Detect, alert and respond to safeguarding concerns as directed by a registered practitioner, contributing to protection planning.

Job description

Looking for a new and exciting challenge? Look no further ……

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Community Mental Health Support Worker to join our forward-thinking and dynamic team.

You as a post holder will be working collaboratively with all the secondary mental health services including Primary Care Mental Health Link Practitioners, the primary care services, and the Voluntary and Private Sector to contribute to providing a Recovery focused model of care.

We are committed in supporting our staff with their wellbeing, training and career development.

We are committed to equal opportunities and we welcome applicants from all sections of the community to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve.

Due to the nature of our work, you must be car driver and you must own a car.

To work as an integral and highly valued member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team under the direction and supervision of community mental health practitioners in promoting and monitoring the physical and mental health of service users. Providing person centered and holistic care which enables service users to be empowered and follow their recovery goals.

The Community Support Worker will support individual service users in identifying, accessing and engaging in support in their local community, fulfilling independent life skills and developing an individual support network to promote service user's recovery journey. The post holder will carry our Carers Assessments and work with service users and carers with assessed eligible social care needs in order to promote recovery or prevent deterioration.

They will be expected to work under minimal supervision, with adherence to Trust procedures and policies, and to employ value based and socially inclusive practice. Although the Community Support Worker will not lead on safeguarding investigations they will be responsible for detecting, alerting and responding to concerns either through the course of their duties or as directed by a registered practitioner, including contributing to effective protection planning.

East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.