Assertive Outreach Clinical Support Worker | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 May 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £22,816 - £24,336 per annum |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 June 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Colchester/Clacton, CO4 5HG |
| Cwmni: | Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6298073/364-A-7741 |
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We are delighted to be advertising for a clinical support worker to join and help develop our newly established assertive outreach pathway within the Specialist Community Mental Health Teams in North East Essex. We will be working collaboratively with inpatients, community mental health teams and third sector organisations to deliver effective community outreach to service-users with a complex psychosis who require an assertive outreach approach. Successful candidates will be required to travel across the North East Essex area regularly and frequently as part of this role. Successful applicants to this post should be aware that further service development in the future may impact on the nature of this role, and it is possible that the post-holder will be required to be flexible in respect of their job plan.
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Please note this vacancy requires a face to face interview with the Recruiting Manager. Applicants that are unable to attend a face to face interview need not apply.
We are looking for a dynamic and passionateclinical support workerwho will work with care coordinators in caring for service-users with the most severe and enduring long-term mental health problems. They will hold a caseload and undertake co-produced, personalised support and care planning with service users where goals and interventions are based on empowerment and each individual’s strengths and assets.
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
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All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
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The assertive outreach clinical support worker will be embedded in the core community mental health teams. Their role will be to deliver mental health support and treatment to the cohort of service-users who experience complex psychosis and are identified as requiring assertive outreach in North East Essex.
The assertive outreach clinical support worker will support the process of undertaking co-produced, personalised care & support planning with service users where goals and interventions are based on each individual’s strengths, assets and sense of what will make a more meaningful life for themselves. This may include supporting service users to be ‘gainfully’ engaged as per their goals in education, employment, volunteering, training, recovery colleges, or other meaningful occupation, and should include relevant collaborative approach. The assertive outreach clinical support worker will work in close collaboration and take direction from the assertive outreach mental health practitioner.
The assertive outreach clinical support worker will have a particular focus on working with service-users admitted to mental health inpatient and rehabilitation units, and will assertively support the safe and timely discharge of this cohort to appropriate accommodation in the community.
Successful applicants to this post should be aware that further service development in the future may impact on the nature of this role, and it is possible that the post-holder will be required to be flexible in respect of their job plan.
This advert closes on Thursday 23 May 2024