Community Support Time and Recovery Worker
4 months ago
Exciting opportunity to work within the Community Mental Health Team, based in Canterbury.
We are currently looking to a Band 3 Support Time and Recovery Worker.
The main elements of community mental health support work focus on collaborative working with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management. Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community. Part of the expected role of this post is to assist nursing staff with the effective functioning and visiting people at their own home as required. Supporting Nursing staff in Depot and Clozapine clinics.
You will also be required to carry out initial assessments using the Dialogue Plus assessment tool for patients coming into secondary mental health services via Mental Health Together. (Training will be given as required)
To work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisation and role. To provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment helping them to build their own support network. To support service users to identify their needs and to assist care co-ordinators to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans. To have the individual service user’s needs at the fore at all times, working to the recovery model to support the service user to work towards their identified goals. To use agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work. To be actively involved in the delivery of Initial Interventions with the support and guidance of a Psychologist or an Occupational Therapist when undertaking STROT. Opportunity to complete phlebotomy training in order to support Clozapine and physical health clinics
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
To act at all times in the best interest of service users within appropriate,
transparent boundaries as part of a recovery orientated mental health service
To be aware of any Advance Directives made by service users in respect of their care and treatment
To assist in delivering a high standard of support to service users and their carers, promoting their equality, dignity and mental well being at all times
To facilitate service user and carer input into the development of best practice
To promote effective communication and relationships with people who are troubled or depressed
To establish and maintain working relationships with people who have difficulty in communicating
To establish and maintain working relationships with people who lack trust and motivation
To provide advice and information to those who enquire about mental and physical health needs and related services
To regularly work with people who are experiencing or have experience often sad or upsetting personal and/or social situations
To establish, sustain and at the appropriate time, disengage from professional relationships with service users working at the service users pace with support from the multi-disciplinary team (MDT)
To provide, or assist service users to access, information on health promotion to include a health diet; smoking cessation; preventing substance misuse and the importance of physical exercise
To work with individuals to facilitate access and engagement in a range of leisure and other community based activities, working across boundaries of care and organisations including Secondary Care, Primary Care and Third Sector.
Please see job description for full details.
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