Mental Health Support Worker | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Pucklechurch; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK seeks a dedicated mental health professional to support individuals with acute needs in a challenging environment. This role involves care coordination, organizing assessments, and delivering emotional support and therapeutic activities to enhance well-being. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and be willing to work flexible hours. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of those in need.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting.
• Experience with mental health and crisis management is essential.

Responsibilities

• Act as care/recovery coordinator for service users.
• Organize and participate in assessments and care delivery.
• Provide emotional support and therapeutic interventions.
• Develop and review care plans.

Skills

Mental health support

Crisis intervention

Care coordination

Emotional support

Cultural sensitivity

Education

Relevant healthcare qualification

Experience in mental health settings

Job description

Are you ready to unlockyour potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? This is an excellent opportunity for to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient. Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future. This position isn't just a job; it's a chance to blend your clinical knowledge, personal skills and a commitment to delivering the highest standards of care in an environment that is as rewarding as it is challenging. Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. This role is focussed on supporting people in prison with a range of acute mental health needs. The individuals may be in crisis, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and supporters will also require support to enable and assist them to meet daily health, social care and wellbeing needs. These needs will need to be met in line with personal recovery goals and facilitating engagement with mainstream services. Always under the overarching framework of CPA, the postholder will contribute to the ongoing assessment, planning, delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care and wellbeing needs. You will be acting as the care/recovery coordinator for an allocated group of service users. The role will also require undertaking and delivering defined activities and interventions for a wider group of identified service users, in accordance with the agreed personal recovery plan. This may be either on a one-to-one basis, or as part of a group activity. Regular out of hours working, including nights will be required.

Responsibilities

• To undertake the role of care/recovery coordinator for an allocated caseload of service users organising and participating in the ongoing assessment, planning delivering and review of care to meet identified physical and mental health social care and wellbeing needs
• Organising and participating in defined assessment methods/activities
• Arranging CPA meetings in line with trust policy
• Developing and reviewing appropriate care plans identifying and organising other resources as appropriate
• Providing defined interventions/ activities as part of the care plan
• Completing relevant paper and electronic documentation in line with the care coordinator role
• Plan and undertaking defined interventions and treatments to enable the individual to meet and develop their ongoing daily living skills, to increase confidence and independence in line with agreed personal recovery plans
• Preparing for and delivering defined self-help groups
• Therapeutic activities to improve and individuals coping skills eg, improving sleep, anger, anxiety, stress management, assertiveness or relaxation
• Therapeutic activities to improve an individual’s physical health such as exercise programmes, diet or nutritional planning
• Planning and undertaking activities to enable the individual to meet and develop their daily living skills, to increase confidence and independence in line with agreed personal recovery plans
• Emotional support to individual focusing on motivation and encouragement
• Information and advice to maintain good physical health by encouraging a good diet and exercise
• Information on rights under the mental health act.
• To work collaboratively with service users and their carers to understand and manage their mental health needs in line with their personal recovery plan and relapse prevention strategies
• To undertake specific activities and interventions in the support of carers including engagement and involvement, assessment and provision of support or services
• Organise and participate in the development of risk assessments and crisis management plans, rapid access plans, within the appropriate framework, ensuring that when trigger points are reached these are reported appropriately to a registered practitioner, and that immediate or direct action is taken in line with these, or in the event of a crisis
• Respond to the needs of individual with sensitivity with regard to their age, culture, race, gender, ethnicity, social class or disability, modifying behaviour to optimise the helping relationship
• Promote the rights of individual by recognising differences and acting in accordance with the relevant legislation, recognising and reporting discriminatory behaviour, and taking appropriate action
• Promoting independence and increasing confidence by providing appropriate self help materials, information about available resources/services, facilitating identified group work and educational workshops
• Contribute to the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures
• Develop own knowledge and practice, making use of supervision/ appraisal and available learning opportunities
• Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security in all workplaces
• Maintain accurate, confidential records of patient activity, writing reports and letters, utilising electronic record and other systems available within the organisation
• To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.

Important Information for Applicants

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team. Applicants must provide proof of right to work documentation, a photographic ID, proof of address documentation and, for non-UK passport holders, the correct right‑to‑work documentation along with a Home Office Share code. Five‑year address history is required. Applicants who are not UK passport holders and have lived abroad for less than five years must provide a Police Certificate in English from the country where they previously resided.

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited, Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation
• Non‑UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home Office Share code
• 5‑year address history will be needed
• Applicants that are not UK passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously

Disability Confident Statement

Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

About Oxleas

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Our Values

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen