Community Support Worker | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Braintree (MA); Vor Ort; USD 28.000 - 33.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Season Ticket Loans

Excellent Training facilities and opps

Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

Bank shifts to expand knowledge

Salary Sacrifice lease cars and Cycle

Cycle to Work

Zusammenfassung

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Support Worker to join the Mid Essex First Episode Psychosis Team in Braintree. The role involves in-community support, promoting recovery and social inclusion for young people and adults aged 14-65 with first-episode psychosis, with travel across Mid Essex.

You will support with access to the community, practical daily tasks, and health checks including bloods and ECGs, working within a multidisciplinary team that

Aufgaben

• Support qualified clinicians to assist people experiencing a first episode of psychosis.
• Travel across Mid Essex to support service users in the community.
• Assist with access to community activities and promote independence.
• Carry out physical health checks in the community, including taking bloods and ECGs.
• Attend team meetings and support risk assessment and safeguarding where needed.

Jobbeschreibung

Community Support Worker | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Community Support Worker to join the Mid Essex First Episode Psychosis Team, based at The Gables in Braintree. Come and join our dynamic multidisciplinary Early Intervention in Psychosis Team offering a wide range of biopsychosocial interventions in a Specialist Team.

This role will require the post holder to work across the geographical locality of Mid Essex. The team uses a Multi-disciplinary approach to provide care, promote recovery and social inclusion to people from the age of 14-65 years who are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, a First Episode Psychosis.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills of working with this group of service users in the community.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all of our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately your application form be rejected from the process.

Please note this vacancy requires a face to face interview with the Recruiting Manager. Applicants that are unable to attend a face to face interview need not apply.

As a community support worker you will both support qualified practitioners to support people experiencing a first episode of psychosis or will work independently on service users goals towards recovery. This requires extensive independent travel across Mid Essex, which is a semi-rural area.

Community support workers contribute to people's recovery by supporting with access to the community as well as supporting with more practical aspects of life to promote independence and recovery.

The role also includes carrying out physical health checks within the community including taking bloods and doing ECG's as well as routine observations.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loans
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment

Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

• Supporting the qualified clinicians with developing and implementing care plans and co-working complex clients with a first episode of psychosis
• Support with the running physical health check clinics and promoting a healthy lifestyle clinics
• Develop and facilitate community based groups that support the agenda of physical health and mental wellbeing
• Encourage and support service users to engage with their local community
• Assist Senior Clinicians in the risk assessment and management of complex cases
• Identify any possible safeguarding concerns and escal…
• Support the promotion of carer and service user involvement within the service and participate in training associated with this
• Completing carer’s assessments and facilitating carers groups
• Attend team meetings i.e. referral/zoning/MDT/business meetings as appropriate
• Support service users to identify strengths, personal interests and achievements and work towards meaningful recovery goals.

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations from across our area. Our aim is to work together in partnership to join up health and care services, improving our population’s health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. One such example of this collaborative work is the launch of our HCA Academy, an ICS initiative between Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) to support the incoming Health Care assistant (HCA) workforce. The academy models a ‘one workforce’ cross system approach to the onboarding, induction, education and experience of Healthcare Assistants.

To support this ‘one workforce model’ the successful candidate for this post will be required to attend our5 day (Monday to Friday) face to face Induction Programme at our MSE IC S Education Hub at Brentwood Community Hospital. Your start date will therefore fall on one of two of the HCA Academy induction dates across the month, which will be discussed and agreed during the recruitment process.

Our HCA Academy Induction programme has been designed to train and support the successful candidate through the early stages of their employment at EPUT and will provide opportunities to enhance skills, knowledge and experience.

Further information will be provided post interview.

This will be followed by an additional 5 day (Monday to Friday) EPUT corporate / mandatory training welcome. (EPUT Welcome will be varied between face to face and virtual delivery).

This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Nov 2026