Support Worker

1 week ago

Worthing, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Our CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) West Sussex Duty and Liaison Team is developing our Urgent Health Care service and as a result an exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 3 full-time support worker to join our team.

As a Support Worker in our team, your role will be variable and exciting, sometimes challenging and there is a need for flexibility but it is always very interesting and rewarding. You will need to be motivated, organised and have a strong commitment to providing high quality care to provide the best outcomes for young people.

As a full-time support worker, you will work shift patterns covering hours between - Monday to Friday and to weekends and public holidays.

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

Main duties of the job

As a support worker in the Duty and Liaison Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) you will support the qualified members of the team to deliver high quality care to children and young people experiencing a mental health crisis and their families/carers. You will provide this enhanced support in order to offer least restrictive options for young people, to enable them to remain living in their communities and avoid hospital admissions where possible.

You will work with the multi-disciplinary team to establish and deliver recovery focused interventions and care for young people. You will also be supporting young people who are waiting for interventions from tier 3 CAMHS.

You will put service users' needs at the heart of the job, keeping people safe, contributes to effective interventions, and responds compassionately to distress.

We are very keen to promote CPD (continuous personal development) and as such you will receive a full training programme, relevant to your post.

About us

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

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.

We'd love you to join our Trust, 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.

Other key survey results:

70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles Job description

Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS:

Comfortable in providing support for young people experiencing a mental health crisis. Experienced in working with young people with mental health needs Able to travel across West Sussex as needed

CAMHS services recognise that young people may be affected by challenges to their emotional wellbeing and mental health at all times. With this in mind our responses are required to be dynamic and needs led,. As part of our exciting transformation agenda colleagues may be required to work outside of the working pattern .

This would be negotiated on an individual basis and as part of Sussex Partnership NHS trusts wider commitment high quality services, that are both flexible and accessible to all our users whilst supporting colleagues in pursuit of their own work life balance.

Please see the attached Job Description for full details on the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Experience working with children and young people

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing

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