Community Clinical Support Worker - DIST Team

Job overview

Community Clinical Support Worker - Dementia Intensive Support Team - West Suffolk

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the West Suffolk Dementia Intensive Support Team. You will be joining a motivated and passionate multi-disciplinary team working to achieve positive outcomes for service users and their carers.

The team is community based and works in individuals homes to prevent breakdown of care and support, to promote independence and stabilise situations preventing admissions to hospital and premature moves into long term care.

The role involves you working with service users, building trust and rapport and enabling them to have the appropriate care and support in place to maintain their independence.

The role involves working with the support of practitioners but managing your own workload and working autonomously in the community.

Please note: This role requires travel and therefore use of own car is essential.

Main duties of the job

To undertake work as guided by Practitioners with a specific and clear role from the outset.

To build relationships and engage with individuals and their family

To provide intensive short-term goal orientated input to the person

To explore and better understand needs and risks for individuals

To test out and trial care and support with the individuals and then hand over to external agency following this

To support people to access resources in the local community

To demonstrate/transfer knowledge and skills to other carers/family members

To be flexible and adaptable in the input you give

To highlight any concerns or risks to the Practitioner responsible for the case

To write notes of visits and input onto the computer system in a timely manner

To be able to manage own workload effectively

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of specialist mental health services for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, serving a population of 1.6 million.

The Dementia Intensive Support Team is a part of the Suffolk Care Group, working within the community to meet the needs of people with Dementia and their carers.

See under main duties of the job, the clinical support workers main role is engaging with and building a relationship with the service user and their family to enable care and support to be introduced to maintain them in their own homes. This involves, assessing and identifying needs and risks and working autonomously.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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