Overview

Are you a Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant with a motivation to work in mental health?

Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small but complex caseload?

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If so, our Band 4 STR role in our the Brighton and Hove Community Rehab Team (CRT) may be the role for you!

Brighton CRT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 STR worker for 30 hours per week. This post involves weekend working, mainly Mon-Fri 9-5, with specific shift patterns to be negotiated. Time owing for weekend work will be taken back during the week.

We are a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate creatively and flexibly, sharing responsibility for risk management to support service users with a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and adopt a biopsychosocial approach.

Mental Health Rehabilitation aims to maximise an individual’s quality of life and social inclusion by encouraging their skills, promoting independence and autonomy, and providing hope for the future. This leads to successful community living through appropriate support.

 

Main duties of the job

The Brighton CRS works with individuals who present with complex needs, including severe & enduring mental health needs, substance misuse, forensic issues and housing difficulties and may have often had unsuccessful working relationships with mental health services in the past. The work we do with this group is so crucial and the job satisfaction we receive when we make a breakthrough with patients is incredible.

Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their relatively small, yet complex caseload. You will undertake duty tasks including supporting patients with rehabilitation goals, but also patients struggling to develop relationships with professions, who may be in crisis and with medication related matters. Your role will also involve supporting with running of groups and providing long term social and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.

Optionally, we would like a support worker who is willing to undertake venepuncture training and support with physical health checks.

 

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development.

 

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems.

Desirable

  • Experience of emotional distress.
  • Experience of mental health services as a service user/carer.

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Essential

  • Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels.
  • Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc.
  • Empathy, compassion and patience.
  • Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs.
  • Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users.
  • Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings.

 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

 

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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