Type d’emploi: Full-time, Permanent

Salaire: £20,330 - £21,777 a year

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Community Mental Health Support Worker- Kerrier

Band 3

Main area
Mental Health Healthcare Assistant
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
201-22-985
Site
THE BASSETT UNIT, LONGREACH SITE
Town
REDRUTH
Salary
£20,330 - £21,777 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
04/08/2022 23:59

Thank 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.

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

Successful candidates will be invited to an Assessment Day on Friday 19th August 2022 held at Carew House in Bodmin. Please note this will be either a morning or afternoon session to be confirmed.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Support Worker with in a busy Community Mental Health Team as part of a Multi Disciplinary Team.

The role is very diverse and no two days are the same working with individuals with severe and enduring mental health conditions .

Working for CFT offers Support Workers new and exciting career pathways to develop professionally.

The position will be for the successful applicant to work with in the Kerrier iCMHT based in Camborne and covering the Kerrier district including surrounding areas and Helston. The successful applicant will be expected to work in the Community with individuals with Severe and Enduring Mental Health Conditions.

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.

Some of your role will include the need to:

  • Foster and maintain good working relations with the integrated Community Mental Health Teams and other services.
  • Work within the Clinical Support Team across the West and Carrick 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 out in Safeguarding Children & Young People: roles and competencies for Health Care Staff.
  • Participate in Safeguarding Adults as per Trust Policy

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.


Person specification

Education / qualification

Essential criteria
  • NVQ3 in healthcare or equivalent qualification or experience.
  • Must be willing to undertake relevant training
  • IT literacy

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Working with clients with a range of mental health problems.
  • Good listening skills and ability to deal with complex information

At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available:

  • Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
  • Protected CPD time for registered staff
  • Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
  • Leadership and Management development programmes
  • Coaching and mentoring opportunities
  • A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
  • Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
  • A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
  • Individual professional development programmes

Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:

  • Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
  • Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
  • Free DBS checks where required
  • Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
  • NHS Pension Scheme
  • Salary sacrifice car scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • The Trust reimburses all application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status.

The Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. It is encouraged that you complete the application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.

We are committed to diversity and equality of employment including the employment of current and former service users.

If you are successful, you agree to Occupational Health accessing your health records from your current or previous employer to check the status of your inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three year satisfactory references therefore please ensure you include correct contact details for your nominated referees including email addresses.

Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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