Senior Community Support Worker

Job overview

Are you a Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant, with a motivation to work in mental health?

Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small, but complex caseload?

If so, our Band 4 STR role in our the Brighton and Hove Community Rehab Team (CRT) may be the role for you!

Brighton CRT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 STR worker for 30 hours per week. This post involves weekend working, mainly Mon-Fri 9-5, with specific shift patterns to be negotiated. Time owing for weekend work will be taken back during the week.

We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate creatively and flexibly, sharing responsibility for risk management to support service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and adopt a biopsychosocial approach.

Mental Health Rehabilitation aims to maximize an individual's quality of life and social inclusion by encouraging their skills, promoting independence and autonomy, and providing hope for the future. This leads to successful community living through appropriate support.

Main duties of the job

The Brighton CRS works with individuals who present with complex needs, including severe & enduring mental health needs, substance misuse, forensic issues and housing difficulties and may have often had unsuccessful working relationships with mental health services in the past. The work we do with this group is so crucial and the job satisfaction we receive when we make a breakthrough with patients is incredible.

Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their relatively small, yet complex caseload. You will undertake duty tasks including supporting patients with rehabilitation goals, but also patients struggling to develop relationships with professions, who may be in crisis and with medication related matters. Your role will also involve supporting with running of groups and providing long term social and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.

Optionally, we would like a support worker who is willing to undertake venepuncture training and support with physical health checks.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full details on the role.

If you are applying for a secondment, please ensure that you have prior agreement from your current manager.

"Please note that this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship, and as such we are unable to accept applications from candidates who would require sponsorship to work in the UK."