Support Time and Recovery Worker | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum, pro rota |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 May 2024 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB4 1PR |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6261660/310-ASMH-5878595-A |
Summary
This post is to join a team supporting working-age adults who have moderate to severe affective and psychotic disorders. The team offers care-coordination, a daily duty service, psychiatric assessments, medication reviews, ongoing risk management, care planning, support around benefits and housing, family work & a wide variety of therapeutic interventions.
We actively develop our staff in their ability to deliver specific interventions. We are continually developing the service, considering what interventions may be helpful for our service users, & evaluating the support we already provide. Recovery principles are embedded in the work of the locality teams & we aim to support people to reach their potential by facilitating hope, empowering autonomy, and developing meaning & purpose in life.
There is a requirement to be able to travel around the Cambridge area.
You will be involved in the delivery of care plan interventions under supervision from qualified practitioners in the team.
You will support around social inclusion for service users; much of your work will be out and about in the community accessing mainstream community services and networks.
You will offer support around benefits and housing, carers’ assessments, physical health care and a wide variety of therapeutic interventions for which you can access training and supervision.
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle.You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Please refer to theattachedjob description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
• To support service users with their recovery journeys through collaborative goal setting with a range of priority health and social needs under the supervision of a senior member of the team.
• Work with service users to facilitate access and engagement in a range of socially inclusive (including vocational) community based activities.
• Develop an alliance based upon collaboration and mutual respect and within appropriate and transparent boundaries.
• Help users gain access to resources to include benefits and welfare rights, using internal and external expertise as required.
• Help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the user’s progress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the individuals care.
• Provide simple psychological interventions as required under the supervision of an appropriately qualified clinician.
• Participate in regular planning and review meetings with the clinician supervising pieces of work and maintain quality and management of clinical caseload within supervision process (pieces of work may be supervised by more than one team member).
This advert closes on Thursday 9 May 2024