Job overview
Main duties of the job
Under the direction of the key worker deliver interventions with an allocated group of service users with severe and enduring mental health needs.
The interventions will be focussed on assisting the person to identify and achieve their agreed goals of Recovery and help a person explore their barriers to receiving care and looking at creative ways to overcome these barriers.
These will include interventions related to engaging in meaningful occupation, accessing employment, assessing and promoting physical health, social inclusion, activities of daily living and mental health promotion.
The post holder will also be involved in supporting the service user to complete appropriate outcome measure tools and participate in reviews of the service user’s care and effectiveness of the interventions provided.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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, meaningful occupation, accessing employment, mental health promotion and physical health promotion.
- 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 teams qualified staff / allocated workers.
- Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan, either via telephone or face to face under the supervision of qualified clinicians.
- At all times work within agreed and established Trust policy and operational procedures.
Person specification
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of working with people with Psychosis or substance misuse issues that may struggle to engage with traditional service models
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This advert is for Health Care Support Worker with Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Stafford, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 14 Jul 2026.
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