Autism Specialist Support Worker

5 months ago

Sidcup, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity to join the Oxleas Adult Autism Service as we seek to appoint a Specialist Support Worker to be part of our multidisciplinary team working with adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder without Learning Disabilities.

The Oxleas Adult Autism Service works with adults with Autism without learning disabilities. The service provides clinical specialist support to the Community Mental Health Teams, Acute Care/psychiatric wards and other local teams working with people with Autism and comorbid psychiatric disorders in order to adjust the inpatient and community support and care according to their specific needs.

The post holder will be a member of our multi-disciplinary team and will be responsible of supporting adult with Autism mainly in the community but also in the acute care wards as needed. The main responsibility for this role will be to support the implementation of specialist programmes and strategies designed by the MDT for our service users. This will include working with Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Clinical Psychologists in community and acute mental health settings.

The post holder will work with autistic people (without a learning disability) with mental health needs or complex needs. They will have specific responsibilities to provide support to the team in delivering interventions to Service Users who have mental health needs/complex needs in addition to autism.

Under the guidance and supervision of a registered professional the Specialist Support Worker will provide support to autistic clients with mental health needs, follow care plans and implement MDT strategies in the community and acute care wards as needed.

They will demonstrate creativity, independence and good ability of working alongside a full MDT

Be an active member of the MDT implementing strategies and agreed support designed by Speech & language therapists, Occupational Therapists and Psychology in the community and in acute care wards as needed.

Understanding the need for and maintaining patient confidentiality at all times.

Adhering to all organisational, policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Ensuring good working relationships with clients, carers, relatives, other professionals, and the public.

Working in different sectors including acute care (under supervision), community and service user's homes.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind

We’re Fair

We Listen

We Care

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation

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