Support Time Recovery Worker

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust seeks a motivated Support Worker to provide Dialog+ and support with delivering interventions. You will assess and plan with service users, liaise with Clinical Pathway Leads, and deliver group-based interventions to promote health and well-being.

You will work to enable access to leisure and community activities, support service users and carers, and help build a person-centred approach across Mental Health Together services.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent.
• NVQ Level 3 in Care or Certificate in Community Mental Health Care or equivalent.
• Commitment to undertake Level 3 qualification within an agreed time limit.

Responsibilities

• NHS experience is not essential; apply if your skills and experience align with our requirements.
• Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.

Skills

Written communication

Active listening

Effective communication

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Care

NVQ Level 3 in Care

Certificate in Community Mental Health Care

Job description

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Support Worker who is keen to support our service users by providing Dialog+ and supporting with delivering interventions.

A Support Worker is a key staff member within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess and plan alongside the needs of the service user, liaise with our Clinical Pathway Leads, Following Dialog+, deliver group-based interventions, influence and drive change, promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience.

You will contribute to assessing clients referred to Mental Health Together or Mental Health Together Plus. Work with individuals to facilitate access and engagement in a range of leisure and other community-based activities, working across boundaries of care within either Mental Health Together or Mental Health Together Plus. Assist in delivering a high standard of support to service users and their carers, promoting their equality, dignity and mental well-being at all times.

Actively listen to help the service user make sense of their mental health problems using a basic CBT formulation model and enable people with mental health needs to develop coping strategies, based on a CBT and mindfulness approach.

Main duties of the job

What is Mental Health Together +?

In Kent and Medway, the community mental health transformation has created a new service model called Mental Health Together.

It is a multi-agency offer, which means bringing all the services and agencies that support people with varying mental health needs much closer together. This ensures that people get the right care, without having to navigate service boundaries and without repeatedly telling their story.

Mental Health Together will introduce new roles as part of a new, joined-up model of care that bridges the current gap between primary care (i.e., GPs) and community mental health (i.e., KMPT). It will treat people with complex mental health needs by:

• Providing someone with support in a person-centred, holistic way
• Removing barriers to access, and thresholds across services, working together
• Involving service users and carers as equal partners in their care
• Building in involvement and co-production at all levels of service design and delivery
• Delivering needs-led and personalised trauma-informed care.

About us

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if we share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.

Job responsibilities

NHS experience is not essential, so please do apply if you feel your skills and experience align with our requirements

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and the main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Role Experience

• Previous Experience in health care
• Previous Mental Health experience

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in Care/ community Mental Health Care or agreed equivalent experience
• Commitment to undertake and to gain appropriate Level 3 qualification within an agreed time limit
• NVQ Level 3 in Care/Certificate in Community Mental Health Care or agreed equivalent

Skills/Knowledge

• Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc
• Ability to listen effectively and communicate effectively at all levels

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.