Community Mental Health Support Worker- Restormel - St. Austell, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Description
**Community Mental Health Support Worker- Restormel**:
Band 3:
Main area
- Mental Health Healthcare Assistant
Grade
- Band 3
Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
- Full time hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm)
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Site
- Restormel ICMHT
- Central Clinical Support Team
Town
- St Austell
Salary
- £21,730 - £23,177 Per annum
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Salary period
- Yearly
Closing
- 16/04/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
_ Strategic Themes_
_ Great Care_:
- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._
_ Great Organisation__ _**:
- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._
_ Great People _:
- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._
_ Great Partner_:
- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people's quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._
Job overview:
The position will be for the successful applicant to work with in the Restormel iCMHT based in St Austell and covering the Restormel district including surrounding areas and Newquay.
The successful applicant will be expected to work in the Community with individuals with Severe and Enduring Mental Health Conditions.
This is a Fixed Term contract for 1 year initially.Ideally the successful applicant will have experience in working with individuals with Mental Health conditions and illnesses
It is essential you have good communication skills.
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of service users.
The post holder will provide a range of services including practical and emotional support to individual service users as indicated by the individual care plans provided by their care co-ordinators.
Main duties of the job:
- Foster and maintain good working relations with the integrated Community Mental Health Teams and other services.
- Work within the Clinical Support Team across the Mid and North Cornwall Localities.
- Establish and maintain effect contact with service users, their relatives and carers in order to ensure good communication.
- Give information and assistance to service users and their carers so that they are aware of their rights, entitlements from the team and wider health and social care community.
- Use of appropriate community resources appropriate to the needs of the service user.
- Practice in a way that actively minimizes dependency and promotes recovery.
- Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working to the principles of the functions policy implementation guidelines and practice in line with the standards and values set out to them.
- Work with service users and their carers to access identified services.
- Monitor mental health and be aware of fluctuations in mental health through observations and report changes to the team practitioners so that service users are directed to appropriate services and risk is managed.
- Encourage social/physical activities as appropriate to the service user's needs.
- Participate in safeguarding children level 2 as set ou
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