Senior Healthcare Support Worker - Camhs-Ld

Hampshire And Isle Of Wight Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Health Care Support Worker for the CAMHS-LD team in Portsmouth. The role focuses on developing assessment skills for children with complex needs and working within a multidisciplinary team to improve outcomes for young people with learning disabilities.

Ideal candidates will have the right to work in the UK and a passion for supporting children and families.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with young people with learning disabilities is desirable.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage young people and children in activities.
• Passion for improving the lives of young people with a learning disability.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a well-established multidisciplinary team.
• Develop specialist skills in observations, assessment and care plans.
• Support families and young people within the wider system.

Skills

Communication skills

Engage young people

Teamwork

Risk management

Education

GCSE Maths and English

NVQ Level 3 Diploma

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, working within the City of Portsmouth.

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Learning Disabilities (CAMHS-LD) team are recruiting a Senior Health Care Support Worker to work in their team. This post should appeal to enthusiastic and highly motivated candidates who are interested in developing skills in assessment of children with complex needs.

At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have a passion for improving the lives of young people with a learning disability, and would ideally, but not essentially, have experience of working within this field. The successful candidate would also show excellent communication skills and the ability to engage young people and children in activities. Previous experience of working with young people, children and their families is desirable.

You will be working as part of a well-established multidisciplinary team of highly experienced practitioners. You will have opportunities to develop specialist skills in observations, assessment and care plans, as well as working with the wider system to support families and young people.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

• GCSE in Maths and English at grade A -- C/4-9 or alternatively Functional Skills in Maths and English at Level 2
• NVQ Level 3 (Diploma)

Experience

• Work without direct supervision
• Practical experience in a health care setting
• Experience of working with people with learning disabilities / SEND
• Experience of working independently in community healthcare setting
• Experience working as part of a team
• Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Risk Management
• Knowledge of local health needs strategies, local policies and procedures including safeguarding
• Commits to maintaining personal development and meeting requirements of revalidation
• Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact
• Knowledge of National agendas and the effect on practice

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.