Health Care Support Worker

NHS; Crawley; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a dedicated Support Worker to join the CRHT team, providing essential mental health support to clients in their own homes. This role involves delivering recovery-oriented care, building community links, and collaborating closely with qualified mental health professionals while ensuring patient confidentiality. The ideal candidate will possess NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience and have a strong background in mental health support work.

Benefits

Access to full psychological support

Excellent supervision and training opportunities

Free on-site parking

Discount schemes

Generous holiday entitlement (27 days + 8 bank holidays)

Excellent NHS Pension

Qualifications

• Experience of working with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity.
• Understanding of confidentiality in patient care.
• Experience of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver recovery-focused interventions to service users in their own homes.
• Support individuals in accessing community activities and interests.
• Work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Collaboration

Compassion

Communication

Education

NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience

Job description

The CRHT team is a part of acute care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support clients in a mental health crisis. It offers clients care and support in their own homes together with a day service group programme based at Langley Green Hospital as an alternative to hospital admission.

CRHT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service.

We are a supportive, dynamic and integrated team which, although busy, has many rewards. We care deeply about our patients and their families and carers. We believe in listening and responding as a team, supporting each other and developing.

The ability to travel is essential in this role, driving is also essential.

The service is a Monday to Sunday service with shift patterns.

Main duties of the job

As a Support Worker you will be instrumental in our service and deliver recovery focused interventions to service users in their own homes. This might include supporting people to build links in their community, supporting them to access interests and activities important to them, and providing other wide-ranging practical and emotional support. You will be guided by qualified mental health clinicians from the team. Regular supervision will be provided.

About us

Working for your organisation

We are committed to career development and future aspirations and career goals are discussed openly and supported.

Working in Sussex:

Travel easily between coast and countryside and enjoy the natural beauty the county has to offer. With a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns, there's always somewhere new to visit

Embrace the city life and visit Brighton, or even travel to London in under 90 minutes

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

Access to full psychological support, via our internal wellbeing team

Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for training and development

Free parking on-site

Access to a host of discount schemes

A position within a trust rated as 'Outstanding' for caring and 'Good' overall by the CQC

Excellent NHS Pension

Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Job responsibilities

You will need to be a dedicated, patient focused and highly motivated individual, who has some experience of mental health and support work working effectively as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team.

Please see attached Job Description for more details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience

Knowledge/Experience

• Experience of working with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
• Experience of working collaboratively i.e. with colleagues, wider teams, service users etc
• An understanding of confidentiality

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.