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Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
Mental Health issues relevant to adults with acute and chronic mental health issues and or forensic histories
- Knowledge
The impact mental health difficulties have on other areas of a service user’s life. I.e. Lack of social inclusion, inability to reach life goals, inability to reach others expectations, inability to maintain relationships. Poverty financial and social.
- Previous Experience
Relevant experience working with adults with acute and chronic mental health problems
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to work with patients on an individual or group basis, focusing on their recovery pathway.
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to enable and empower patients in a way that increases their self esteem, raises their confidence and help them to identify positive qualities in self.
- Skills and Abilities
Excellent verbal and written communication skills relevant to the legal requirements of client care and related issues and the documentation of that care.
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to support the multidisciplinary team in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of mental and physical care appropriate to the needs of the client group and clinical speciality and the ability to use evidenced based approaches in the delivery of care.
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to recognise stress in oneself and others and manage appropriately accessing additional support where necessary.
- Skills and Abilities
Ability to work autonomously and to work as part of a team
- Skills and Abilities
Demonstrate an awareness how your own approach and communication style may impact on service users, their carers and members of your own team.
- Skills and Abilities
Be prepared to use reflection in action and on action to gain a deeper understanding and insight from situations and experiences occurring inside and outside the work environment and how these can impact on each other.
- Personal attributes (demonstrable)
Be motivated to continue with expanding knowledge base.
- Personal attributes (demonstrable)
Demonstrate practice which embraces the Trust values, caring, respectful and inclusive.
- Personal attributes (demonstrable)
Be able to maintain motivation to deliver the highest standards of care in a service that faces constant change from internal and external sources.
- Personal attributes (demonstrable)
A caring and compassionate attitude
- Education Training and Qualifications
NVQ level 3 or equivalent mental health experience
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Previous Experience
Working with a multi-disciplinary team environment
- Previous Experience
Working with service users and carers within their own homes
- Previous Experience
Working in a role which includes physical health observations
- Previous Experience
Previous experience of venepuncture and taking ECGS
- Skills and Abilities
Experience of devising groups and activities.
- Personal attributes (demonstrable)
An interest in the interplay between physical and mental health
- Education Training and Qualifications
Foundation Degree in Mental Health or social care.
Job overview
Looking for a new and exciting challenge? Look no further ……
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Community Mental Health Support Worker to join our forward-thinking and dynamic team.
You as a post holder will be working collaboratively with all the secondary mental health services including Primary Care Mental Health Link Practitioners, the primary care services, and the Voluntary and Private Sector to contribute to providing a Recovery focused model of care.
We are committed in supporting our staff with their wellbeing, training and career development.
Apply now to be the part of this friendly team and help us to deliver our vision to improve health and wellbeing of our clients by providing high quality care.
We are committed to equal opportunities and we welcome applicants from all sections of the community to ensure our workforce is representative of the population we serve.
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Main duties of the job
To work as an integral and highly valued member of the Multi-Disciplinary Team under the direction and supervision of community mental health practitioners in promoting and monitoring the physical and mental health of service users. Providing person centered and holistic care which enables service users to be empowered and follow their recovery goals. The Community Support Worker will support individual service users in identifying, accessing and engaging in support in their local community, fulfilling independent life skills and developing an individual support network to promote service user’s recovery journey. The post holder will carry our Carers Assessments and work with service users and carers with assessed eligible social care needs in order to promote recovery or prevent deterioration.
They will be expected to work under minimal supervision, with adherence to Trust procedures and policies, and to employ value based and socially inclusive practice. Although the Community Support Worker will not lead on safeguarding investigations they will be responsible for detecting, alerting and responding to concerns either through the course of their duties or as directed by a registered practitioner, including contributing to effective protection planning.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the requirements for this post
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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This advert is for Community Mental Health Support Worker with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Mental health support worker role. The advertised salary is £27,485 - £30,162 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 16 Nov 2026.
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