Community Mental Health Support Worker- Resource - Liskeard, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Liskeard, United Kingdom

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Description

**Community Mental Health Support Worker

Resource Centre**:

Band 3:

Main area

Community Mental Health Support Worker

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Grade

Band 3

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Full time hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am 5pm)

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Job ref

Site

THE COACH HOUSE,MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE CENTRE

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Town

LISKEARD

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Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
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Salary period

Yearly

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Closing

18/06/2023 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_
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

_Great Organisation_
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

_Great People_
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

_Great Partner_
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

_ 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:

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to work with in secondary mental health services with in a 'Day Resource Centre' setting.

We are looking for someone to join our team in Liskeard to deliver groups with in the centre.

Ideally the successful applicant will have experience not only in working with individuals with Mental Health conditions and illnesses but also have experience in delivering groups.

You will have the opportunity to work with different teams, services and volunteer and third sector partners with in the centre.

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.
The day to day running of the building including reporting maintenance issues, liaising with contractors and room bookings.
Work within the Clinical Support Team across the North and East
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 minimises 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.

Working for our organisation:

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust bas