Senior Community Link Worker

3 weeks ago

Livingston, United Kingdom Cameron Clarke Associates Full time

Senior Community Link Worker | West Lothian | Full Time - 37.5/week | £15.50 per hour

Our client is a Lanarkshire based charitable company providing a range of community based mental health support services throughout the localities of Lanarkshire, as well as an information resource, charity shop café and wellbeing centre.

You will support the Service Manager in running two wellbeing hubs in Bathgate and Livingston. Based in one of the hubs, you will lead a small team of Link Workers and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including psychologists, occupational therapists, and mental health nurses.

Your responsibilities include conducting initial assessments and providing person-centred support to individuals experiencing mental health issues, often exacerbated by stressful social circumstances. You will help clients identify and achieve personal goals, connecting them to local and national resources as needed. Additionally, you will deliver and support staff in providing psychoeducational groups.

Our client encourages applications from individuals with personal experience of mental health difficulties.

Are you the right person for the job?

  • Previous experience of working with people in demanding situations would be desirable.
  • An understanding of mental health issues.
  • Ability to manage people in a non judgemental and supportive manner
  • Excellent communication skills and a positive can do attitude
  • Ability to build rapport easily and maintain positive and effective communications
  • Able to work independently in a proactive manner
  • Able to sustain contact with individuals to encourage and motivate them
  • Confident in working closely with clinical staff, G.P.’s, practice staff and community agencies
  • Able to maintain accurate records
  • Basic IT skills, working knowledge of office 365 desirable

What will your role look like?

  • Conducting initial structured conversations with people referred to service using standard internal paperwork and processes including introducing fellow staff to undertake support duties on completion of assessments, as well as liaising with clinical colleagues and other agencies where necessary
  • To provide individual support to service users in accordance with their agreed and pre-set plans and fulfil key worker duties as required
  • To participate with service users in negotiating, agreeing, and reviewing their individual plans
  • To deliver individual and group based psychoeducational interventions
  • To take part in organising, supporting, delivering and reviewing groupings of service users where they may occur
  • To take a lead role in local community activities that promote positive mental health awareness and assist to challenge stigma and discrimination
  • To keep accurate and up to date written records of service users visits/work
  • To be proactive in promoting effective communication with relevant statutory and third sector agencies/professionals and their staff to ensure the best possible support arrangements are in place for service users and connections for future support/information and advice are also in place
  • To be proactive in relationships with NHS mental health nurses and GP practices ensuring positive working relationships are achieved and suitable referrals are received
  • To be proactive in promoting and maintaining effective internal and external communications
  • To lead by example and work positively as part of a team, your actions being conducive to promoting effective, open, honest and supportive teamwork
  • To organise and take a lead role in team meetings
  • To provide regular supervision to relevant team members as well as ongoing support to assist them in their work and development, including annual appraisal and continued personal development
  • To maintain positive and current communications with service manager and fellow senior to ensure service runs in a consistent and effective manner
  • To deputise for service manager or fellow senior as required in their absence
  • To provide planned and unplanned support, advice and direction to staff as required
  • To ensure day to day work in relation to service is covered and staff absences are managed
  • To gather record and collate data, including case studies/patient stories in a prescribed format for monitoring and evaluation purposes

What can you expect in return?

  • Training is provided
  • Contributory Pension up to 6% & Travel Allowance

This post is subject to a PVG (Protection of Vulnerable Groups) check and also reference checks.

Full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is necessary.

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