Job overview
This role is focussed on supporting people, in the community, with a range of acute mental health needs, who may be in crisis, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and supporters, enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care and well being needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.
We are looking for a mental health worker to work within North Somerset Intensive team. The position is offering full time hours. The team cover a twenty four seven period and we work a shift pattern.
Main duties of the job
The Intensive Team provides assessment and home treatment to individuals and their carers as an alternative to hospital admission, relapse prevention, short term therapy work and help provide facilitated discharge from hospital.
The team operates 24 hours per day 7 days per week 365 days per year, as such the successful candidate will be expected to be able to undertake a shift pattern of working.
Night provision is currently under review.
Mental Health Workers in this team, offer a variety of psychosocial skills to service users, whilst working under the guidance of registered practitioners there is also the expectation of lone working at times. The Intensive team has a shared caseload so Mental Health Workers are not required to provide care co-ordination.
We are ideally looking for someone who has successfully undertaken the NVQ Level 3 in Mental Health or equivalent qualification, is enthusiastic, has experience of working with people and families in distress due to mental health crisis and are able to work under pressure. The North Somerset Intensive team works to promote recovery and operates a non-exclusion policy.
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