Carer Support Lead

Are you passionate, motivated and innovative?

Do you want to work in a vibrant and exciting environment within acute mental health inpatient services?

If you answered yes to any these questions, then Meadowfield are looking for a Carer Support Lead to join us on the journey to providing outstanding care and support to service users, carers and their families in West Sussex.

Meadowfield is an acute mental health hospital in Worthing. We are an open unit, and our open doors are something that we are very proud of and this brings a very different feel to the unit than those that are not able to use this approach.

The carer support lead for Meadowfield will complete and monitor 72 hour carer phone calls, ensure the distribution of carer packs, book in carer meetings, lead on and promote the monthly carer group at the hospital. They will lead on the carer strategy for the ward and will be supervised monthly.

You will update and collate information to keep our patient information current and compliant.

You will be a dedicated resilient team player with the ability to work well under pressure whilst displaying excellent organisational and interpersonal skills

We welcome applicants who have lived experience of caring for a loved one with a mental illness to support the delivery of compassionate interventions. You will provide peer support and practical assistance to carers, families and loved ones by using your own lived experience, empowering them to fully engage with our service Triangle of Care, to regain control over their lives and meet their own needs.

We’re a large NHS Mental Health Trust in South East England. We’re looking for people to help us provide high quality services for the patients, carers and local communities we serve.

Working for Sussex Partnership gives an extreme level of job satisfaction, knowing that the work we do has a direct impact on the levels of care we provide to our service users. We give our clinical teams the capacity and tools they need to focus on providing excellent care.

As a mental health trust, we place a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff and ensure our reward packages reflect the important work you do.

**You can expect to receive**:

- Access to numerous wellbeing, support, supervision and training programmes
- Access to a host of discount schemes (inc. gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
- Superb NHS Pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (starts at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.
- Provide carer support to carers, friends and families of those admitted to Meadowfield.
- Ensure all 72 hour carer phone calls are completed and followed up.
- Ensure all carers receive a copy of the wards carers pack, including our carer letter.
- Invite carers to ward reviews.
- Lead on the monthly carers group, ensuring carers are invited and followed up.
- Document carer input on the Carenotes system and ensure information is circulated to team.
- Refer carers to Carer services and support.
- Build links with local carer charities, such as Carers Support West Sussex.
- Create a relapse prevention and support plan with the carer.
- Initiate and follow up referrals to carer support.
- Monitor the progress of the carer strategy and link into the triangle of care lead.