Health Care Support Worker

Job overview

The CRHT team is a part of acute care and works closely with the acute hospital and community teams to support clients in a mental health crisis. It offers clients care and support in their own homes together with a day service group programme based at Langley Green Hospital as an alternative to hospital admission.

CRHT are able to offer all the benefits of a hospital admission while remaining at home including home visits from our experienced team, with support from doctors and psychology. We also facilitate supportive discharge from hospital, managing the transition back to community-based service.

We are a supportive, dynamic and integrated team which, although busy, has many rewards.  We care deeply about our patients and their families and carers.  We believe in listening and responding as a team, supporting each other and developing.

The ability to travel is essential in this role, driving is also essential.

The service is a Monday to Sunday service with shift patterns.

Main duties of the job

As a Support Worker you will be instrumental in our service and deliver recovery focused interventions to service users in their own homes. This might include supporting people to build links in their community, supporting them to access interests and activities important to them, and providing other wide-ranging practical and emotional support. You will be guided by qualified mental health clinicians from the team. Regular supervision will be provided.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will need to be a dedicated, patient focused and highly motivated individual, who has some experience of mental health and support work working effectively as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team.

Please see attached Job Description for more details.