Senior Rehabilitation Support Worker

Navigo; Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Navigo Health and Social Care CIC is recruiting a Rehabilitation Support Worker to join our multidisciplinary team. The role focuses on spending time with individuals and delivering short and long term reablement to help them regain independence.

Working across community and inpatient settings, you will support daily living activities, provide 1:1 and group interventions, document progress, and collaborate with therapists, nurses and social care colleagues to promote recovery.

Qualifications

• 3 years experience of working with people with mental illness.
• A good practical understanding of the MHA and MCA.
• Lived Experience.
• Mental Health First Aid training.
• Awareness of Health and Safety in the workplace.
• Recent and/or current work in Mental Health or Social Care.

Responsibilities

• Develop knowledge of lived experience to tailor care and support recovery.
• Advocate for service users to design their own mental healthcare.
• Build supportive relationships and provide daily encouragement.
• Deliver prescribed 1:1 and group interventions within the care plan.
• Assist with budgeting, welfare rights, planning and meals.
• Support education, occupation, training and development.
• Promote healthy lifestyle and daily living activities.
• Administer oral medication as required.
• Provide daily mood, behaviour, and progress updates to senior staff.
• Maintain electronic records and work across pathways as needed.

Skills

Group Work

Coaching techniques

Lived Experience

Excellent written & verbal comms

Education

NVQ level 3 in care or Care certificate or equivalent

Job description

Please note:We have Band 2, and Band 3 positions available. Please refer to the attached Job Descriptions / Person Specifications, for full details of the roles and their respective responsibilities.

An excitingopportunity has arisen within The Community Rehabilitation Service.

This role isfocussed on spending time with individuals and as such it is a privileged rolethat gives you the opportunity to make a real difference to peoples lives.

Are youpassionate about helping others regain their independence? We are seeking anempathetic and motivated Rehabilitation Support Worker to join our expandingmultidisciplinary team. Working across community and inpatient settings, youwill collaborate closely with Occupational Therapists, Therapy Assistants,Psychologists, Nurses, Social Workers, Support Workers, and Psychiatrists toprovide short and long term reablement and rehabilitation programs

Main duties of the job

Therole will support the multi-disciplinary team to delivery individualised carepackages to a small group of service users with both mental health needs and/ora learning difficulties, who are either stepping down from low secure andlocked rehabilitation placements or who are local service users requiringassessment and treatment for their enduring mental ill health. The aim of the post is to support recovery,independence, quality of life and well-being, through instilling hope andoptimism in every service user so that they can reach their full potential.

About us

Hello!

Weare Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health andwell-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental healthservices to the NHS and beyond.

Thewhole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for ourown family to use.

Weoffer a range of mental health services, including acute and communityfacilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adultsinpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and anoutstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Rankedas one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companiestop 100 large company list.

Asa social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have alsodeveloped income-generating commercially viable businesses that providetraining, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby GardenCentre.

Workingat Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but wereally mean it.

Welike to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.

Comeand Join us !

Pleasenote: Whilst we value all applications, if we believe an application to be AIgenerated, we will use a checking tool and may reject any application that hasbeen automatically generated.

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Job responsibilities

To develop knowledge andunderstanding of the lived experience of people in your care so that you canprovide the right support that will meet their own identified needs forrecovery.

To advocate for your serviceusers so that they are at the forefront of designing their own mental healthcare and support and so that their voice is heard at all levels.

To develop supportive andcaring relationships with individual service users and to provide daily supportthrough encouragement, understanding and motivation.

To deliver prescribed 1:1and group interventions within the scope of the support plan, with care andcompassion, this may include but this list is not exhaustive:

I. Budgeting, benefitsand welfare rights

III. Planning, shopping andcooking of meals

IV. Education, occupation,training and development

V. Healthy lifestyle,healthy choices

VI. Activities of dailyliving

VII. Administering of oralmedication

VIII. Rest, relaxation andvocation

You will be expected toincrease your knowledge in one of the elements of recovery above to supportsenior staff to deliver specific interventions.

To provide daily updates tosenior staff of individuals mood, behaviour, interaction, motivation and mentalhealth so that plans of care can be reviewed accordingly.

Sensitively supportindividuals with activities of daily living with the goal to enhance theseessential living skills.

To work without directsupervision, but with someone available to refer to, as and when required,either on or off site on a regular basis.

Help identify early signs ofrelapse by monitoring the services user progress, level of functioning andmental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the persons care.

To support the service userto integrate into the local community to enable them to feel a sense of purposeand community.

To maintain informativeelectronic records as required.

To undertake such otherduties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of thepost.

Be able to workflexibly within the different elements of the rehabilitation pathway whenrequired.

Person Specification

Experience

• 3 years experience of working with people with mental illness.
• A good practical understanding of the MHA and MCA and the role of a nursing assistant within this.
• Lived Experience.
• Mental health First Aid training.
• An awareness of Health and Safety in the workplace.
• Recent and / or current work experience within a Mental Health or Social Care environment.

Knowledge

• Awareness of Coaching techniques.
• An awareness of Health and Safety in the workplace.
• Working knowledge of the benefits and housing systems.
• Supervision of junior staff.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to respond to the individual rights/needs/opinions of service users.
• Ability to maintain a safe environment for service users/ carers/staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Can evidence supporting others so that they can reach their full potential (staff and service users).
• Can evidence making a positive difference to peoples lives.
• Can evidence understanding of mental health and recovery.
• Can evidence advocating for the service user.
• Can evidence applied knowledge of the MHA and MCA.
• Group Work.
• Substance use knowledge.

Qualifications

• NVQ level 3 in care or Care certificate or equivalent
• A basic knowledge/understanding of and passion for supporting those with Mental Health needs.
• Some understanding of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.

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.

Employer name

Navigo Health and Social Care CIC

Address

Springboard at Tees House (& other Rehab Sites)

Springboard at Tees House (& other Rehab Sites)