Role Overview
Assessing a patients housing needs and sign posting to appropriate organisations for support and unblocking barriers to discharge. This is a ward based job. Attending relevant meetings and assessments. Confident in written and verbal communication skills. Good computer skills. Identifying barriers on admission and working independently on these to prevent delayed discharge. Self direction and motivation is essential. Able to work in a challenging quick paced environment.
Lime is a all male acute mental health unit, the ward is looking for a motivated individual who has experience working with people with mental health issues, your role would be supporting patients on the unit looking at housing and blocks to discharge, you need to be confident leading on this subject whilst exploring and supporting a patient in the journey of recovery and discharge .
Qualifications and Experience
Confident leading on this subject whilst exploring and supporting a patient in the journey of recovery and discharge .
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
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