Mental Health Support Worker Position

5 days 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 providing care and support for working adults with mental health illnesses and disorders.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop a rewarding career in mental health, where you can make a real difference in the lives of our service users.

Key Responsibilities

Main Duties:

  • To deliver high-quality care and recovery interventions for service users within designated clinical areas, in collaboration with, and under the indirect supervision of, registered care staff.
  • To help maintain a clean, well-organised, safe and therapeutic environment that meets the needs of service users, carers and colleagues.
  • To deliver psychosocially-informed one-to-one and group interventions aiming to positively impact service users' cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
  • To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, assuming lead or link roles on core practice initiatives and priorities under the supervision of registered staff.
  • To practise planned care, and to directly participate in the development of recovery-focused interventions that address service users' and carers' needs and preferences.

About Us:

We are Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing, and we recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

What We Offer

We offer a range of benefits, including

  • A comprehensive statutory and mandatory training programme.
  • Training to complete the NHS Care Certificate and a Level 3 Healthcare apprenticeship.
  • Opportunities for career progression and professional development.
  • A supportive and inclusive work environment.

We are committed to supporting employees and staff wellbeing and development is important to our team at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Person Specification

Essential:

  • An understanding of how mental health issues can affect the lives of individuals, their families and their community, and experience of using a range of evidence-based approaches to reduce the impact of such issues.
  • Experience of working in a busy team, and an ability to use 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, whilst also taking direction from senior colleagues.

Skills:

  • Ability to communicate in written and verbal English to a high standard, and basic numeracy skills.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds.



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