Mental Health Support Worker

1 month ago

Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a compassionate and resilient Healthcare Support Worker to join our team in our 20-bedded acute ward. As a key member of our multi-professional team, you will play a vital role in providing care and support to individuals with mental health illnesses and disorders.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Deliver high-quality care and recovery interventions to service users, working collaboratively with registered care staff.
  2. Maintain a clean, well-organized, safe, and therapeutic environment that meets the needs of service users, carers, and colleagues.
  3. Deliver psychosocially-informed one-to-one and group interventions to positively impact service users' cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
  4. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, assuming lead or link roles on core practice initiatives and priorities.
  5. Participate in the development of recovery-focused interventions that address service users' and carers' needs and preferences.
  6. Contribute to all aspects of clinical record keeping and participate in ongoing care planning, CPA, and risk assessment processes.
  7. Maintain a basic working understanding of relevant legislation, including the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act (2005).
  8. Adhere to AWP's Code of Conduct for unregistered practitioners, promoting and embedding it through peer support and supervision.
  9. Engage in reflective practice to maintain and promote ongoing clinical practice.
  10. Promote and enhance a positive learning culture, supporting the induction, orientation, and development of junior, temporary, and newly appointed Health Care Support Workers.
Person Specification

We are looking for an individual with:

  • An understanding of how mental health issues can affect individuals, their families, and their community.
  • Experience of working in a busy team and using initiative at times of pressure.
  • Possession of, or the ability and willingness to work towards, an appropriate Level 3 vocational qualification (Level 3 Diploma in Mental Health or Health and Social Care).
  • Ability to work with a degree of autonomy, while also taking direction from senior colleagues.
  • Ability to communicate in written and verbal English to a high standard and basic numeracy skills.
About Us

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is a diverse organization with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire, and in parts of Dorset.

We recognize that happy and fulfilled employees give better care. We are committed to supporting employees and staff wellbeing and development is important to the team at Poppy.

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