Assertive Outreach Clinical Support Worker

6 months ago


Colchester, United Kingdom Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Please note this vacancy requires a face to face interview with the Recruiting Manager. Applicants that are unable to attend a face to face interview need not apply.

We are looking for a dynamic and passionate clinical support worker who will work with care coordinators in caring for service-users with the most severe and enduring long-term mental health problems. They will hold a caseload and undertake co-produced, personalised support and care planning with service users where goals and interventions are based on empowerment and each individual’s strengths and assets.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent Training facilities and opportunities

Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Day One Flexible Employer

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What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

The assertive outreach clinical support worker will be embedded in the core community mental health teams. Their role will be to deliver mental health support and treatment to the cohort of service-users who experience complex psychosis and are identified as requiring assertive outreach in North East Essex.

The assertive outreach clinical support worker will support the process of undertaking co-produced, personalised care & support planning with service users where goals and interventions are based on each individual’s strengths, assets and sense of what will make a more meaningful life for themselves. This may include supporting service users to be ‘gainfully’ engaged as per their goals in education, employment, volunteering, training, recovery colleges, or other meaningful occupation, and should include relevant collaborative approach. The assertive outreach clinical support worker will work in close collaboration and take direction from the assertive outreach mental health practitioner.

The assertive outreach clinical support worker will have a particular focus on working with service-users admitted to mental health inpatient and rehabilitation units, and will assertively support the safe and timely discharge of this cohort to appropriate accommodation in the community.

Successful applicants to this post should be aware that further service development in the future may impact on the nature of this role, and it is possible that the post-holder will be required to be flexible in respect of their job plan.



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