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Advanced Senior Support Worker | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 25 Mawrth 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 24 Ebrill 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Reading, RG30 4EJ |
| Cwmni: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6180839/371-MHS290 |
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This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly motivated team working with the homeless, hard to reach and difficult to engage clients in Reading. The team provides a range of services via drop-in clinics to clients at a variety of venues including hostels, specific women’s services, health screening at probation (offenders), and work closely with the Reading Street Outreach team (St Mungo’s) actively going out on the street to engage people rough sleeping. This job will require one morning a week, in a two to four week rotation with the team, working the early morning outreach shift and flexible working shifts 5pm-7pm on a Monday and Thursday as required. Excellent communication skills are essential and a background working within mental health is desirable but not essential.
Apart from client contact the role includes office-based functions such as IT skills and the ability to use local electronic systems such as RIO to document client information. Good organisation skills, the ability to work independently as well as working as a team player is essential.
1. Work as part of the team, to effectively provide a service that support clients back into mainstream health services through assessment, signposting and liaison with other Services.
2. Provide advocacy for clients that experience challenges or difficulties in accessing services particularly when the difficulties lie within the service accepting a potentially challenging client.
3. Have good organisation skills.
4. Have a working knowledge of physical and mental health issues and be able to deliver physical and mental health screens supported by the qualified staff nurses (once assessed as competent to do so).
5. Have a sound knowledge of issues such as mental health and/ or substance use that will provide an understanding of some of the issues that may affect this client group.
6. Establish effective therapeutic relationships with Clients that enables assessment, communication and the sharing of complex and sensitive informatio
7. To undertake early morning outreach with St Mungo’s, one morning a week on a one in two to four week rotation with the other members of the team, and flexible working shifts 5pm-7pm on a Monday and Thursday as required.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites
The four "must haves" for you to be considered for this role:
1. Physical and mental health experience (both areas can be developed)
2. Desire to work with complex client group who need support.
3. Compassion and offer trust to our homeless and vulnerably homed clients in Reading and West Berkshire
4. Ability to "think on your feet and adapt to the situation."
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and let’s be outstanding together.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Amanda Magee on 0118 2077651 or email: amanda.magee@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Apr 2024
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