Sussex Mental Healthline Call Operator
1 week ago
We are the Crisis Line/111 Mental Health Option service. The service is a 24/7 mental health crisis line for anyone who may be in crisis and in urgent need of help with their mental health.
We are an ageless service operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We are currently recruiting for a Bank Mental Healthline Operator to join our busy team. You will be joining a friendly, supportive and dedicated team of Clinicians and Call Operators responding to Sussex-wide callers who require support for their own or others Mental Health difficulties.
All work is telephone based at our offices in Worthing.
As a Call Operator you will be trained in a specific triage tool, to be utilised alongside your existing skills, to support callers and where necessary escalate to a clinician or signpost to services across Sussex.
We place a large focus on staff training, including a bespoke induction and plenty of on-going in-house training. You will benefit from a full and robust supervision package, with ample opportunities for group reflection, development and mentoring.
There is no appointment system so the work is fast-paced and varied.
SPFT provides mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
**Working in Sussex**:
Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns
Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure
We’d love you to join our organisation that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
**Key staff survey results include**:
70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part time hours, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
To be successful in this role you will share our passion, desire and empathetic approach to supporting people of all ages with complex mental health needs, who are often experiencing crisis.
**Requirements**:
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Competent IT skills
Experience of working with people with Mental Health needs
Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied and demanding role
Ability to work flexible hours; to include evenings, weekends and nights
Able to work autonomously
Ability to travel and work from an office base in Sussex
Flexibility with working patterns to include some weekend and evening work is essential. This does bring with it increased rates of pay for unsocial hours as set out under the Agenda for Change (AfC) guidelines.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
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