Senior Support, Time and Recovery Worker - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We have the exciting opportunity to recruit a senior STR worker to join an experienced and supportive multidisciplinary team at Croydon Older Adult CMHT.

The CMHT has a key role in promoting metal wellbeing and engaging service users and carers to meet their mental health needs; avoiding the need for more restrictive treatment options such as inpatient care.

The team is well regarded by service users and carers with 100% of respondents on recent patient and carer experience questionnaires rating their experience of the service as 'very good'.

The team reflects the diversity of the local community and team members are passionate in their desire to support each other to provide high quality patient care.

The STR worker role will enhance the psychosocial interventions on offer within the teams and ensure that service users and carers are able to access the full range of services available in their local communities.

They will have a key role in helping service users transition from secondary care level mental health services to sustaining mental wellbeing with the support of primary care and voluntary sector agencies.

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations.

This post offers the opportunity to really connect with and learn about local communities and make a difference on an individual level and may lead to you deciding to train in a variety of healthcare roles.

The STR worker will work as part of the multi-professional team supporting the planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care needs in collaboration with patients, carers and families, and other community services.

You will work with a small caseload of CMHT patients, visiting them in their own home and supporting them with practical tasks, social needs, engagement in social inclusion activities, helping to implement care plan goals and overcoming barriers to community engagement.

Accompanying service users to local community settings or appointments may also form part of this. Liaison with other agencies in order to promote continuity of care is also a key feature of the role.

You will have a genuine enthusiasm for working with older people, appreciating the richness of their life experiences and valuing each of your service users as an individual.

You will be skilled in communicating with a wide range of individuals and able to take a person-centred, strengths-based approach to each individual service user.

You will need to be able to think flexibly and creatively, and offer a dynamic, enthusiastic, understanding and supportive presence.

An ability to build strong relationships with service users, carers, external agencies and professionals is key.

The team is made up of a number of experienced clinicians with a team manager, clinical nurse specialist and clinical specialist occupational therapist all on hand to offer supervision in your role.

The team also includes three consultant psychiatrists, a number of care coordinators (community psychiatric nurses and occupational therapists), trainee CBT therapists, a mental health and wellbeing practitioner, and team administrators.

You will be based at Heavers Resource Centre which is located at 122 Selhurst Road, SE25 6LL; within walking distance of both Selhurst and Norwood Junction stations.

As well as local public transport links, there is on-road parking nearby and access to a shared team pool car for carrying out patient visits.

Heavers Resource Centre is a spacious team location, with office space for both the older adult CMHT and Croydon Memory Service, as well as council-run day services and a residential home for older people.

Crystal Palace Football Ground and Croydon Town Centre shops are both within a few minutes' drive.

We would welcome informal conversations and visits to the team base from prospective applicants - please use the contact details below to arrange this.

MDT and inter-agency working

To work as part of the multi-professional team supporting the planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care needs in collaboration with the patients, carers and families, and other community/inpatient services.

To support personalised care planning within the MDT, working closely with patients and their carers; to assist patients in their recovery goals which may include supporting them with practical/daily living tasks and engagement in social inclusion activities; working to a high standard and ensuring that as needs change care plans are updated

To work in close partnership and maintain effective communication links with other mental health services and community agencies in order to ensure the continuity of quality clinical care for patients.

to support patients to access local community resources; to develop a good knowledge of local community resources and wider directorate resources and maintain up to date information on resources for patients.

To support patients in self referring or completi