Mental Health Support Worker

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Wood Green; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) in London is launching a Crisis Prevention House to provide therapeutic, recovery-focused and person-centred care for people experiencing mental health challenges. The role focuses on connecting symptoms with life context, offering activities to build life skills, wellbeing support, therapy and creativity while maintaining safety and dignity.

The post involves night and weekend shifts with enhancements, working under a risk-management framework, and

Responsibilities

• Lead on some activities in the house.
• Ensure health and safety of each shift.
• Report or escalate issues to senior managers or on-call staff.
• Receive guidance and live supervision/reflective practice from senior colleagues.

Job description

This role is an exciting part of the launch of our Crisis Prevention Houses as therapeutic, recovery-focused, and person-centred environments that support people who are experiencing mental health challenges. We aim to reconnect symptoms to the context of people's lives. There is a strong link between childhood trauma and adult mental distress and experiences of marginalisation, poverty racism and violence are correlated with poor mental health. People who stay in the Crisis Prevention House can live in a safe environment and engage in a wide range of activities which include building life skills, learning about mental health, wellbeing support, therapy, and creative activities. We are here to help guests get back on their feet and move forward in their lives with confidence. We aim to help guests build the foundation for a meaningful and fulfilled life by enabling people to recover from understandable mental health challenges, without encountering institutional re-traumatisation. The salary is subject to night and weekend enhancements. The post holder will deliver shifts from atrauma informed perspective, taking guidance from the team within the managing risk framework at the service. Lived personal/close relative experience of mental health challenges are welcomed. The post holder will be guided alongside colleagues in the interventions on each shift and will also have senior staff to provide them with ongoing live supervision/reflective practice. They are responsible for the health and safety of each shift, reporting/escalating to senior managers or on call issues which cannot be contained within the shift. The post holder will lead on some activities in the house and be responsible with others that the environment maintains the privacy, dignity and respect of all those who use the service. The post holder will work shifts alongside senior staff at weekends when required. This job description is written as anindicationof the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and client groups. It is not intended as a fully descriptive list and does not include specific skills or therapeutic interventions that may be required of the specialist service area. The post holder will be expected to beflexibleand to carry out other duties assigned by the Team Manager, which are appropriate to the grade, nature and changing needs of the role.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy: 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. 4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
• In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.