Mental Health Support Worker

14 hours ago

Lewes, United Kingdom Practice Plus Group Full time

**About The Role**:
**ADD TO LIFE. EVERY LIFE**
**Be the person who makes all the difference**

Secure environments are one of the most challenging, yet rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work. If you’re looking for a role where you can develop your existing skills and learn something new every day in an environment that never stands still, then this could be the opportunity for you.

As a Mental Health Support Worker, you will assist the mental health team in the delivery of immediate and, where appropriate, ongoing care for patients referred to the mental health team. You will be expected to support people to access care and treatment appropriately within the prison setting, working independently with lone working at times. You will contribute to the positive and aspirational workings of the integrated mental health care team, ensuring that each and every patient is treated with care, respect and dignity. You will also provide assistance with delivery of mental healthcare needs, within the Healthcare Department.

**About You**:
We are looking for someone who has previous experience as a mental health support worker. You'll have the ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person.

**Interested in development?**

We have a wide range of opportunities for you to develop your skills and your career, which include both internal and external options for development and learning and access to our apprenticeship schemes.

**How will we support you?**
- Bespoke induction, including our Introducing Health in Justice training course
- Competency framework
- Regional and national career development opportunities
- Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs
- Support from the wider team

You’ll receive an annual salary up to £27,700
**_ _**per annum - depending on experience.

**It doesn’t stop there**we also offer:

- Company pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave increasing with service up to 28 days per year, plus public bank holidays
- An extensive range of wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
- Discounts on shopping and leisure activities
- Support to grow in your role and continue your professional development
- Excellent long-term career prospects
- 24/7 employee assistance helpline and financial assistance when you need it

**About Us**:
HMP Lewes is a category B male remand prison, still serving the local courts. It has an operational capacity of 790 with a mixture of both remand and sentenced prisoners

The dedicated team in the Health in Justice division of Practice Plus Group make a real difference across over 45 prisons, young offenders and immigration removal centres. We’re the UK’s leading independent provider of NHS services to over 40,000 people in these secure environments, always putting their needs first, regardless of their history.

Practice Plus Group’s mission is **Access to Excellence**. Our core values are;
- we treat patients and each other as we would like to be treated,
- we act with integrity
- we embrace diversity
- we strive to do things better together
- patients can only access excellence if we commit to living our values in everything we do when we’re at work

If you share these values and have transferable skills we want to meet you

Practice Plus Group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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