Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the City North Local Mental Health Team as a community Support worker. If you have skills and expertise in working with clients aged 18-65 living in the local community experiencing severe mental health problems, this is the opportunity for you. You will be an integral member of a dynamic multidisciplinary team offering creative and consistently high quality evidence-based interventions. Successful candidates will demonstrate emotional intelligence as well as being highly motivated in supporting the recovery of patients and involving them and their families in their care.
Responsibilities
* Contribute to assessments and interventions; undertake nursing, therapy and social activities as delegated by the relevant profession.
* Frequently work without direct supervision in the community and be required to work in a flexible and holistic way to respond to this client group’s needs.
* Promote the recovery of patients and, through working with partner agencies and primary care, ensure timely and safe discharge from secondary care.
* Be a proactive member of a dynamic multi-disciplinary health team with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to manage complex cases in partnership with other agencies.
Qualifications and attributes
* Successful candidates will demonstrate emotional intelligence and be highly motivated to support recovery and involve patients and their families in care.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability and experience to manage complex cases in partnership with other agencies.
Additional information
The service is for adults with mental health needs and is delivered in the community. You will contribute to assessments and interventions, undertaking nursing, therapy and social activities as delegated by the relevant profession. You will frequently work without direct supervision in the community and be required to work in a flexible and holistic way in order to respond to this client group’s needs. You will promote the recovery of patients and through working with partner agencies and primary care to ensure timely and safe discharge from secondary care.
We are seeking enthusiastic team players to work within a dynamic multi-disciplinary health team, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability and experience to manage complex cases in partnership with other agencies.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jen Hambling; Job title: Team Manager; Email: jennifer.hambling@nottshc.nhs.uk; Telephone: 0115 955 5360
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