Health Care Support Worker

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Halifax is seeking a dedicated professional to assess the needs of service users and deliver mental health interventions. Responsibilities include managing a caseload, conducting outreach visits, and working collaboratively with GPs and other healthcare providers to promote recovery. Candidates should have relevant experience and a commitment to high-quality care. This position is part-time at 22.5 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Team members should have experience in delivering short-term mental health interventions.
• Ability to assess service user needs under supervision.
• Familiarity with infection control procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assess service user needs under the supervision of a senior staff member.
• Hold a caseload of service users and provide tailored interventions.
• Complete outreach visits to service users unable to attend the clinic independently.

Job description

22.5 hours per week

Calderdale Core pathway is a large pathway comprising Nurses, Social Workers, Support workers, psychologists, and Medical Staff. As team members we operate in new ways of working. The Core pathway works with different types of service users. People within the pathway will be offered short‑term, brief, focused interventions before they are discharged back to primary care. These brief interventions comprise anxiety management, graded exposure work and accessing community facilities and third sector services.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess service user needs under the supervision of a senior staff member.
• Hold a caseload of service users and provide tailored interventions.
• Complete outreach visits to service users unable to attend the clinic independently, and facilitate their attendance.
• Work with service users to formulate a collaborative plan of care.
• Help service users stay mentally and physically well and work towards an optimum level of recovery, including liaising with GPs and other healthcare providers.
• Work closely with GPs, physical healthcare providers, partner organisations and other agencies.
• Complete cardiometabolic assessments, which may include taking basic observations and blood tests (full training will be given).
• Adhere to infection control procedures, including sanitisation of clinical areas and use of PPE as required.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities; we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups. We value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we are accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.