Are you a Support Worker, 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 for 30 hours per week. This post involves weekend working, mainly Mon-Fri 9-5, with specific shift patterns to be negotiated. Time owing for weekend work will be taken back during the week.
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.
Mental Health Rehabilitation aims to maximize an individual's quality of life and social inclusion by encouraging their skills, promoting independence and autonomy, and providing hope for the future. This leads to successful community living through appropriate support.
Main duties of the job
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 professions, 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.
About us
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
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification 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
* NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development
EXPERIENCE
* Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems
* Experience of emotional distress.
* Experience of mental health services as a service user/carer
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
* Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels
* Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc
* Empathy, compassion and patience
* Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs
* Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users
* Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings
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.
East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre
East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre
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