Clinical Support Worker

**Main area**
- Clinical Support Worker**Grade**

Band 3

**Contract**

Permanent

**Hours**

37.5 hours per week (Full time including days, nights and weekends)

**Job ref**

373-CYP1308-ROLL

**Site**
- Ancora House**Town**

Chester

**Salary**

£24,071 - £25,674 per annum pro rata

**Salary period**

Yearly

**Closing**

30/10/2024 23:59

**Job overview**:
**Are you a caring and compassionate, looking for a fresh or new opportunity?** Why not come and work for CWP - we may have just the role for you. We have a full time Clinical Support Worker vacancy within our CAMHS inpatient service, Ancora House. You would be required to work on a rotational shift basis, which includes days, nights and twilights.

You will be part of a supportive and knowledgeable multi-disciplinary team. The role involves working collaboratively with individual service users, carers and other stakeholders.

**Main duties of the job**:
You will be part of a supportive and knowledgeable multi-disciplinary team and will work on a rotational shift basis, which includes days, nights and twilight shifts. The post offers the successful applicant the exciting opportunity to join this team and provide the highest quality of care for our service users. We have an excellent training programme.

The job role involves a variety of tasks including; supporting young people in education, providing different levels of observations and liaising with external agencies and families/carers.

We are recruiting for full time permanent and full time 12 months fixed term roles.

CWP has adopted the Living Wage. Where the standard Agenda for Change hourly rate is below Living Wage, pay will be supplemented to this level.

**Working for our organisation**:
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
- Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
- CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a **_Values Based Interview/Assessment_**,** which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Silver’ award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Appropriate Mental Health related qualification, or willingness to complete an apprenticeship appropriate to the Clinical Support Worker role.
- Will work towards the appropriate mental health related NVQ level 3 once in post or equivalent experience
- To demonstrate a range of work procedures and practices and to exhibit your knowledge and abilities
- Completion of or commitment to complete the Care Certificate (CWP In-house 2 day training to be completed within 3 months of start date)

**Desirable criteria**:

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