Adult & Paediatric Crisis Worker - Sussex

2 weeks ago


Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom Mountain Healthcare Full time
About the Role

About the Role

Location: Sussex SARC

Salary: The payment rates for this role are a shift retainer of £30.56 Monday - Friday and £40.24Saturday - Sunday, plus additional attendance payment of £46.50 per case.

Rota Patterns : The shifts pattern are: 9am-5pm, 5pm-1am and 1am-9am, you will also be able to cover days, nights, and weekends.

Are you looking for a new and exciting alternative career path within the Health & Justice care sector? This is the perfect opportunity for a compassionate person to join a growing, innovative and market-leading service provider within Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).

The role of Crisis Worker is critical in providing victims of sexual assault with the dedicated support and care required. Acting as the advocate for patients who attend the centre, you will empower service users to feel in control and be able to support during the forensic to manage patient care pathways.

Job Opportunity

Key Responsibilities will include:

  • 1st point of contact for service users.
  • Support process of an service users and their family visiting the centre, including preparing the patient and assisting in the collecting of forensic evidence.
  • Ensuring that a high standard of DNA anticontamination is maintained between forensic cases (cleaning).
  • Assisting patients and liaising with other agencies regarding the management of the service user pathway.
  • Assisting with preparation, service user support and acting as an advocate during their time at the SARC.
  • Be a key player within the SARC team and wider company network.
Essential Skills

Essential Skills Required:

  • IT skills and basic administration.
  • Experience working in a supportive or customer focused environment.
  • Kind caring nature
  • Knowledge and understanding confidentiality.
  • Because of the nature of the Sexual Offence Examiner, applications are invited from females only. This post has a genuine occupational qualification under the Sex Discrimination Act, Section 7(2)b and 7(2)e.
  • Whilst the position may be based from one location, additional travel may be a requirement of the role across SARC's, therefore a UK driving license is required for this role and access to a vehicle.
  • Advanced DBS and level 2 Police vetting will be required
About Company

Founded by passionate clinicians on a mission to provide expert patient-centred services, Mountain Healthcare leads the clinical forensic healthcare provisions sector in the UK. A premier partner of NHS England and the police, our unique provisions include Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs), Police Custodial Healthcare, Secure Estate Healthcare and clinical telephone advice.

Driven by our values Be Kind and Do the Right Thing, Mountain Healthcare provides holistic and trauma-informed care that improves the immediate and long-term health outcomes of patients across the criminal justice system. Through innovative technologies and strategic partnerships, our expert clinicians ensure equal, effective and efficient services to all our patients and always put their health, safety and rights first.

Join the Best Provider, Make the Greatest Difference

Clinical forensic healthcare is a rapidly growing career path as demand for specialist critical services has greatly increased in recent years. At Mountain Healthcare, we understand that to provide the highest quality services for our patients and customers, our people must be the best in the field. We are proud to offer unrivalled staff training and development opportunities such as our unique Forensic Practitioner Gateway, our wide range of accredited and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses, and access to events across the health and justice sector.

DE&I

Mountain Healthcare aims to create and encourage an environment that is committed to promoting equality, diversity, working inclusively, and valuing the differences that individuals can bring to the workplace. We uphold these principles in our organisational values and behaviours towards each other and our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexuality, or other personal circumstances.

Benefits

Company benefit

  • Enhanced sickness pay scheme
  • Enhanced Maternity Pay after 1 year's service
  • Well-being programme
  • Advanced rota planning for better work-life balance
  • 6 weeks annual leave
  • Pension Scheme
  • Bonus Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Assistant Programme
  • Long Service/Team of the Month Awards
  • A range of accredited and CPD training courses and masterclasses
  • Funding for higher education courses after one years' service


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