Community Support Planner

Job overview

Are you passionate about reshaping mental health care? Do you believe in the power of community, collaboration with community partners and local voluntary care sector, inclusion, and peer support to transform lives? We’re launching an innovative community care centre inspired by world-class models like the Trieste Mental Health Community Network, Navigo in Grimsby, and Clubhouse models in New York and Brixton.

We have an incredibly exciting and rare opportunity to be part of a new community mental health pilot. This centre will hold a major national profile with NHS England who are hoping that the pilot will radically transform how we deliver mental health care in the UK.

We are looking for dedicated staff to help us pioneer this revolutionary approach to care.

What We Offer

• A Unique Care Model: Join a programme focused on community, social inclusion, and holistic recovery.
• Supportive Environment: Collaborate with peers, contribute to a recovery-oriented care system, and make a real difference.
• Development Opportunities: Be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of mental health care, with training and career growth built-in.

Main duties of the job

To provide direct support to adults using community mental health services within the Lewisham Pilot who require a period of re-ablement, stabilisation or preventative intervention.

Support Planners will be based within neighbourhood-based community mental health teams which provide integrated health and social care services. Their aim will be to provide direct support to services users to reach their full potential, to optimise and maintain their independence, and to exercise choice and control over the way that they live their lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To participate in the assessment of service users' mental and physical health needs. including risk assessment and early signs of relapse, promptly reporting observations to those in the team with responsibility for care.

• To work in partnership with service-users, carers and more senior staff to identify goals and to develop self-directed support plans

• To identify and overcome barriers to achieving goals by providing practical time-limited support to service-users in the community to assist them to develop skills and to access available resources

• To participate in the planning and delivery of support in a way which promotes recovery and social inclusion, including delivery of group interventions.

• To support care coordinators to review the need for ongoing care packages following a period of re-ablement and as part of the process of Self-Directed Support for those who are eligible for care packages and Personal Budgets

• To contribute to regular reviews of progress against the service user's goals and to work with service users to revise goals as necessary

• To develop and maintain detailed knowledge of mental health resources and mainstream opportunities within and outside the borough of Lewisham.

• To record all interventions and other aspects of data collection in accordance with the Trust’s requirements.