Are you looking for a new challenge? We are looking to recruit 1 x Support Time Recovery workers into our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team covering Brighton & Hove.
Our crisis resolution and home treatment teams (CRHTs) are designed to provide safe and effective care to patients in their own home when experiencing a mental health crisis and would otherwise need to be admitted to hospital.
We offer home visits, medical reviews, psychology input and telephone support and facilitate supportive discharge from hospital and managing the transition back to community-based services. We work in close partnership with our Acute Care and Community Mental Health teams and we are often the link between the two.
Our teams consist of support workers, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, peer and carer support workers, mental health nurses doctors and psychologists.
Your role will involve supporting patients and the wider multidisciplinary team with their complex caseload. You will undertake duty tasks including supporting patients 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.
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
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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
To support, guide and liaise with Foundation STR Workers as part of the Foundation Workers overall support and development programme.
To positively promote the recovery and independent living of service users within the community.
To support service users in engaging effectively with their individual person centred care plan, and enable them to give feedback to their care co-ordinators on the care plan
To be responsible for liaising with and providing information to other agencies involved in the support of the service user.
To adhere to the recovery principles and therefore support and enable individuals to regain control, responsibility, hope and enjoyment.
To develop meaningful relationships with service users within appropriate and transparent boundaries, and to seek support and use supervision to facilitate these relationships.
To provide regular and practical support to service users and their carers (as appropriate) in developing and managing independence and maintaining dignity and self respect. This includes support with the tasks of daily living.
To support service users in meeting holistic needs (education, welfare, financial, leisure, housing, spiritual etc) in partnership with other individuals and agencies.
To promote physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being.
To support service users in identifying early signs of relapse and in accessing timely support from range of other individuals and agencies. To support service user in identifying possible triggers or cause of relapse.
To maintain accurate records as required by existing policy, entering appropriate details on the service user's case notes as necessary.
To attend staff meetings, agreed training and development sessions and supervision.
To contribute to service development as an equal partner alongside service users and carers.
To undertake any such other duties as may be determined on occasion within the general scope of the post.