Community Support Worker

7 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a community support worker, with the LYPFT Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service.

We are a new team within LYPFT and you will be part of shaping and developing the new service.

This newly developed team will have the time and space to deliver care directly to those service users using a trauma-informed approach.

Working collaboratively with the city’s other street support teams, we hope to be able to provide exceptional holistic treatment to those who need it most. Rough sleeping and homeless services in Leeds are unique and comprehensive and this team has a real opportunity to make a huge difference to those that needs support the most.

We are looking for a Community Support Worker who has experience of working with people with complex trauma, who may also be experiencing mental and physical health difficulties.

There will be training, supervision and support available from the trust and also within the team once established.

The Community Support Worker in the Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service will work in close collaboration with Mental Health Practitioners to do such things as:

- Provide direct support to service users sleeping rough in the community in the form of outreach support
- Implement agreed specialist psychosocial interventions plans, which supports the service users care plan.
- Demonstrate and role model constructive person centred approaches to the person’s family or care team to increase their ability to provide effective interventions.
- Contribute to the assessment, planning and evaluation of care provided.
- Work with partners across the city to work in an integrated way to provide a smoother service user experience
- Access supervision within the team
- Complete case notes and documentation effectively and within a timely manne

The working days are Monday to Friday. Flexibility is required to meet service and service user need. However, there may be a requirement for some evening hours in order to meet service demands.

Car driver essential to the role.

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.

The role of the Support Worker in the LYPFT Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service is to work with the multi professional team and partner agencies to assess, plan, organise and deliver specialist psychosocial interventions as agreed with supervising clinicians. This work will be in accordance with clinical governance processes and professional standards. The post holder will utilise their skills and knowledge to understand the needs of people who have been referred to the RS MH Service.

The post holder will use evidenced based interventions to support change in those with additional risk indicators i.e. increased risk to physical health, increased risk of demonstrating behaviours challenging to the support network and those with additional challenges to service provision.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the service users, their support network and other allocated professionals, whilst considering the issue of consent to develop and agree a plan of how their goals will be achieved.

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