- Good general education to GCSE level or equivalent
- Evidence of training / development
- Good IT Skills
- Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to support service users with severe mental health needs to promote their own recovery
- To demonstrate skills that enable people to be independent of Mental health services
- Ability to engage service users and work at a pace that will support their recovery in a community setting
- Ability to provide practical support with activities of daily living essentials
- A keenness to make positive contribution and identify solutions to help empower service users
- Working in partnership with other agencies
- To be proficient at planning and facilitating group work
- To be able to take responsibility for own work planning
- Working with and Understanding of Mental health illnesses and early warning signs of relapse
- Understanding of Risk assessment and risk management
- Demonstrate an understanding of Clinical Governance issues
- Working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to work independently and use own Initiative
- Demonstrate professionalism, i.e. time-keeping, attitude, values
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote ant discriminatory practices and equal opportunities
- Ability to respond in a professional manner to challenging behaviours
- Ability to travel to numerous community settings around the Trust geographical area in a timely and effective manner
- Demonstrate the Trust behaviours
- Positively promote independent living through use of the recovery model
- Awareness of Mental Health Act (1983)
- Awareness of and application of psychosocial interventions
Senior Occupational TherapistNHS AfC: Band 6 - Aldridge, United Kingdom - Black Country Job Support
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Job overview
Community Mental Health Services are transforming Would you like to be part of this exciting development?
As a result of investment we are looking for 2 full time band 3 Support Time and Recovery Workers, ideally with community experience, to work as a Support Time and Recovery Worker within the Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) serving the Walsall area covered by Walsall North and Walsall South teams based at Mossley Day Unit and Anchor Meadow Health Centre.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills; with the support of healthcare professionals, the Clinical Lead and Team Manager. Working alongside the Care Co-Ordinators, other Support Time and Recovery Workers and the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team you will learn their roles and also be able to practice autonomously with their guidance.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of a team, which promotes social inclusion and access for service users in recovery from mental health difficulties. The teams focus is on the individual needs and wishes of services users, working across boundaries of care in enabling and empowering individuals to access opportunities and promote their recovery.
To provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users with complex needs to promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment. To assist care coordinators to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
There will be an opportunity to develop your skill base in therapeutic interventions. You will have an ability to work with partner agencies and be supported by Care Co-ordinators, the Clinical Lead and Team Manager to support service users' care.
The Team is committed to provide safe, sound and supportive services; you will receive regular supervision with opportunities to develop clinical and professional practice in line with service user needs and organisational values.
Working for our organisation
As a trust we are committed to ensuring staffs wellbeing, providing access to various networks, trust wide mindfulness groups, self-referral physio services, staff counselling. In addition to this you will have access to the Vivup services, Car lease schemes and other benefits.
You will be working alongside out team of enthusiastic and highly motivated colleagues. You will be joining a supportive, forward thinking and problem solving team.
If you have a passion for working age adults, this would be an ideal team for you and we would welcome your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be part of a dynamic, supportive and diverse multi-disciplinary team. You will be responsible for supporting the Care Co-Ordinators with managing the mental health needs of service users referred to the team, under guidance from the Clinical Lead and Team Manager. You will also be part of developing and implementing therapeutic interventions. You will also have an understanding of the new national drivers and directives that are being introduced in mental health services as part of the national community transformation, such as the new mental health framework that will replace CPA. With the support of our Care Co-ordinators, you will manage a caseload of some of our less complex service users who do not require the full input of a Care Co-ordinator and also our more complex service users who require additional input as well as a Care Co-ordinator.
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