Young & Rarer Dementia Community Support Worker

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Stockport Memory Assessment Service for a Community Support Worker to work with our Young & Rarer Dementia patients. Your role will prodominently include supporting patients diagnosed with Dementia under the age of 65 and those with a rarer form of Dementia, although this team sits within the Stockport Memory Assessment Service, so cross cover may sometimes be required. In helping us deliver outstanding mental health care you’ll be making a real difference to residents and their families within Stockport every single day, with support from the organisation and your colleagues every step of the way.  As part of our vibrant culture you’ll build lasting professional relationships that will take you further, whatever your career goal.

Stockport Young & Rarer Dementia Team supports people under the age of 65 who have a diagnosis of Dementia and also patients diagnosed with rarer forms of Dementia.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the multidisciplinary team and provide support on both an individual and group basis to individuals experiencing mental health problems to enable them to achieve their full potential through accessing resources available within their wider communities and equipping them with the skills and confidence to enable them to manage their lives independently.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

To provide support to an allocated group of service users, promote their recovery and help to maintain them in their community environment. • To assist qualified practitioners in assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating individual care plans. • To ensure that service users engage effectively with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services. • Positively promote independent living of service users within the community  • Provide support and interventions to service users in their own homes and the wider community based upon their assessed needs. • Assist service users to make full use of community resources. • Support service users to become involved in social activities in line with their assessed needs and planned care. • Support service users to establish and maintain effective interpersonal relationships. • Provide regular and practical support for service users and their carers’ in managing dignity and independence. • Provide support with activities of daily living. • Help service users gain access to resources required to meet their needs. • Provide information on health promotion and support physical health management. • Help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the service users progress, level of functioning and mental state and to alert the appropriate staff involved in the service users care. • Report regularly to care coordinators and keyworkers. • To promote independence and choice. • To maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service users case notes as necessary. • To attend and actively participate in training sessions, team/care planning review meetings and supervision as appropriate. • To contribute to the ongoing development of the service • To ensure that electronic care records are efficiently maintained. • To contribute to audits as required, providing relevant data as required in line with performance monitoring targets. • To deal appropriately with clinical incidents and complaints from patients, relatives and members of the public, via line manager, in accordance with Trust policy. • To assist qualified practitioners in undertaking physical health checks • To undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post.

This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process.