Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time (15 hours per week) Community Mental Health Support Worker to join Louth Community Mental Health Team (CMHT).
We are looking for a Community Mental Health Support Worker with demonstrable skills, enthusiasm, and compassion to work with service users who have a range of complex mental health needs, focused on supporting service users to recover.
Louth CMHT provides planned and effective mental health treatment alongside the service user, their carers, and other services in line with the goals of the service user. The CMHT ensures service users' needs are met by using mental health support services across the breadth of the community. You will be a key person to ensure this is delivered by working collaboratively to achieve the best outcomes for service users.
The Community Mental Health Support Worker will contribute to the ongoing assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care provided to service users. The Multi-disciplinary Team holds overall responsibility for the care provided to each service user, with you being the identified keyworker for a cohort of service users in the team who is the point of contact for them and their carer.
As part of the role, you will be supported to grow and develop at a pace that you wish. Regular management supervision will be provided, along with opportunities for continuing professional development within LPFT.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide a range of patients with mental health support in the community, implementing plans of care, utilizing personal autonomy, and utilizing the support of the Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) when needed, to support individuals with their ongoing recovery.
2. Work with a range of agencies within the CMHT and externally, to signpost patients to appropriate sources of support or provide short, moderate, or longer-term interventions to support their recovery, based on their clinical need.
3. Support the running of the service, manage a caseload, attend meetings, and take on additional responsibilities as required. The ability to be flexible and organized is essential.
4. Travel throughout the county as required to provide patient care and multi-agency working. Provide support to those in a caring role.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism, and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high-quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top-scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services for the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff network groups, and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You section of the document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards it, resourced by LPFT
* NVQ 3 in Care or equivalent
* NVQ 3 in Promoting Independence or equivalent or working towards achievement
* Training in mental health awareness or other training relevant to this post
* NVQ 2 in Care or equivalent
Experience
* Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems at a nursing assistant grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting
* Knowledge of risk assessment principles
* Experience in providing support for people in the community
* Experience of working with people with mental health needs
Skills
* Effective communication with service users, other members of the team, and outside agencies.
* A patient and empathic approach. Clear and accurate clinical note-keeping.
* Quick decision-making skills, a calm approach, and the ability to liaise and consult with other colleagues if required.
* Ability to plan and organize their day and ensure that their whereabouts are known.
* Ability to travel around the county independently.
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
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
£24,071 to £25,674 a year pro rata for part-time
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