Support Worker Practitioners - Supported Transition Services

St Andrew's Healthcare; Northampton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate Support Worker Practitioners to join their innovative Supported Transition Services. This rewarding role focuses on delivering specialized care to individuals with complex mental health needs, ensuring they live fulfilling lives in community settings. You will play a vital role in early detection and crisis prevention while fostering a flexible safety culture. With tailored training and a supportive environment, this position is perfect for those who are passionate about making a real difference in the lives of others. Join the mission to transform lives and support individuals in achieving their goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 months’ experience in a care setting with complex needs.
• Ability to develop a flexible safety culture and promote equality.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist care to individuals with learning disabilities and Autism.
• Emphasize early detection of needs to prevent crises.

Skills

Empathy

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Conflict Resolution

Understanding of Trauma

Education

Experience in Care Setting (12 months)

Experience in Complex Care (6 months)

Job description

Career Opportunities: Support Worker Practitioners - Supported Transition Services (36503)

Are you ready for your next challenge delivering specialist complex care?

Location: Northampton

A bit about us

We are St Andrew’s, a mental health charity that inspires hope. We work together with a number of organisations to transform the lives of people with complex mental health needs. We provide specialist mental healthcare and deliver a range of inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education, and research that helps to improve lives.

Our vision for the future is a society in which everyone living with mental health needs is heard, valued, and has hope for their future. Come join us. Let's transform lives together.

About our Supported Transition Services

Our specialist Supported Transition Services in Northampton provide innovative, enhanced, and intense support outside of a secure hospital ward environment. The care we offer includes collaborative, responsive, timely, and appropriate interventions that support individuals to live satisfying lives in community settings, with a deep understanding of neurodiversity and a focus on tailored person-centred care in a sensory-led environment.

In line with the Building the Right Support document and the Transforming Care national context, St Andrew’s Healthcare is designing and delivering innovative new services that allow a Supported Transition Service (STS) for those with complex physical and mental health conditions who have a diagnosis of LD and/or ASD. These can either offer a safe environment or support structure for discharge from hospital or can prevent an admission into a hospital.

The role

You will be an integral part of a team providing specialist care to individuals with a learning disability and/or Autism who have complex needs and challenges in a bespoke environment curated specifically for them. Your role will emphasize early detection of any escalation of need and help prevent crises from occurring. You will provide an enhanced level of input into someone’s day-to-day care to avoid out-of-area hospital admissions in line with the Transforming Care Agenda.

You will be provided with a tailored training package specifically designed to support you in delivering highly specialised care and support. This is a rewarding position for someone with natural empathy and a passion for helping people. You will be pivotal in supporting people to achieve their goals, helping them to live more independently, and contributing to developing a flexible safety culture.

About you

We are looking to appoint experienced individuals who feel a strong connection and passion for the care and support we provide. You will be dynamic and enthusiastic, having worked in a specialist care setting supporting unique individuals, making a real difference in their lives and supporting them with challenges they face.

What you will need to succeed

• Minimum of 12 months’ experience within a care setting and 6 months’ experience in complex care.
• Ability to develop a flexible safety culture where everyone is responsible for the safety of the environment and reducing conflict.
• Compassion and understanding towards behaviours of concern, recognizing that many service users have encountered severe trauma in their lives.
• Demonstrated reliability and dependability.
• Honesty and respect for people and colleagues within the organisation.
• Positive, recovery-focused communication.
• A basic understanding of the prevalence and widespread impact of trauma.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to promote, establish, and maintain healthy working relationships with a range of individuals and organisations.
• Commitment to promoting equality and diversity in all aspects of the role.
• Professional and ethical representation of the organisation at all times.
• Preservation of the human rights of individuals involved in the use of restrictive interventions, preventing unlawful breaches of rights, and taking positive steps to protect rights.
• Living the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence daily.
• Willingness to undertake personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc.) in some areas.
• Support for people with complex physical and mental health needs to live worthy and meaningful lives.
• Ensuring individuals in your care have their own gold standard quality of life.
• Encouraging inclusion in the local community, working collaboratively with internal multidisciplinary professionals and supporting access to mainstream health services.
• Responsibility for ensuring the patients' voices are heard and valued throughout the care they receive.
• Ability to assess and manage risk and behaviours that may challenge the service in a least restrictive way.

Interested?

If this sounds like you, we’d love you to apply here. For more information or an informal discussion about the career opportunities on offer, please contact our Recruitment Team at [e-mail].