Community Mental Health Support Worker

Job overview

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application  may be withdrawn

We have a wonderful opportunity for a Community Mental Health Support Worker to join our team within Shrewsbury Central East CMHS on a fixed term basis covering maternity leave.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• have previously worked with people with mental health difficulties
• can demonstrate that you are skilled in working as a part of a team
• can engage with people and promote independence

The role of the Community Mental Health Support Worker you will work under the direction of the key worker/lead professional and deliver interventions to people with mental health needs.

The interventions will be focused on assisting the person to identify and achieve their agreed goals of recovery. These will include interventions relating to meaningful occupation, accessing employment, assessing and promoting physical health, social inclusion, activities of daily living and mental health recovery.

You will be a part of a multi-disciplinary team that includes Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Nurses, Occupational therapists and Support Workers.

This is a fixed term role working 15 hours per week. Monday - Friday - 9am - 5pm (days off in the week to be negotiated).

Please note this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role.

Main duties of the job

Main duties and responsibilities

• Establish and maintain relationships with service users, relative/carers and colleagues
• Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan, to assist the service user to achieve their recovery goals including; improving activities of daily living, social inclusion, and meaningful occupation, accessing employment, mental health promotion and physical health promotion.
• Undertake physical health assessments including; weight, height, blood pressure, ECG, phlebotomy.
• Responsible for contributing towards planning and undertaking delivery of planned therapeutic activities with an identified group of service users as an element of the care programme approach.
• Regularly support service-users to access a range of activities and services to maintain their independence and promote their recovery.
• At all times ensure that own actions support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals and promote independence.
• Regularly reports and effectively communicates service users health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to care coordinators and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Have an awareness of community resources appropriate for the service user to access.
• Involvement in the review of risk, communicating any changes to the key workers.
• Work with other Trust services to promote seamless service user focused care, admission, transfer and discharge on identified care pathways.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to this position, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.