Senior Community Support Worker Job at Sussex  NHS Trust

Senior Community Support Worker Job at Sussex  NHS Trust – We’re looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.

Job overview

Are you an  Support Worker or Healthcare Assistant,  with a motivation to work in mental health?

Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small, but complex caseload?

If so, our Band 4 STR role in our the Brighton and Hove Community Rehab Team (CRT) may be the role for you!

Brighton CRT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 STR worker full time (37.5 hours 9-5 Mon-Fri). This post involves occasional weekend working. Time owing for weekend work will be taken back during the week. We can negotiate flexible hours if required.

We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate creatively and flexibly, sharing responsibility for risk management to support service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and adopt a biopsychosocial approach.

The Brighton & Hove Community Rehabilitation Pathway offers high-quality, safe, and effective rehabilitation for adults with psychosis and complex mental disorders. The team collaborates with patients, supporting meaningful recovery, improving quality of life, and enabling social inclusion and participation in the wider community.

The service operates both short-term pathways, offering temporary community rehabilitation for up to 16 weeks, and long-term pathways, providing input for a minimum of 3 years.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of this post is to work as a member of the Community Rehabilitation Service across Brighton and Hove. The Brighton CRS works with individuals who present with complex needs, including severe & enduring mental health needs, substance misuse, forensic issues and housing difficulties and may have often had unsuccessful working relationships with mental health services in the past. The work we do with this group is so crucial and the job satisfaction we receive when we make a breakthrough with patients is incredible.

Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their relatively small, yet complex caseload. You will undertake duty tasks including supporting patients with rehabilitation goals, but also patients struggling to develop relationships with professionals, who may be in crisis and with medication related matters. Your role will also involve supporting with running of groups and providing long term social and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.

Optionally, we would like a support worker who is willing to undertake venepuncture training and support with physical health checks.

Working for our organisation

The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Living & Working in Brighton:

·       Be spoilt for choice with Brighton’s iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractions

·       Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstep

·       Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park

We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Key staff survey results include:

·       70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

·       79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team

·       77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description document for the full details on the role.

If you are applying for a secondment, please ensure that you have prior agreement from your current manager.

“Please note that this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship, and as such we are unable to accept applications from candidates who would require sponsorship to work in the UK.”

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development
• Experience working with people with mental health problems

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.