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Community Support Planner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,129 - £28,649 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2024 |
| Location: | London, BR1 5PS |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6366604/334-CLI-6366604 |
Summary
We are looking to recruit a Community Support Planner to the Lewisham community mental health team, neighbourhood 4.
The role is to provides a practical solution focused approach to supporting people with mental health conditions to manage more independently in their daily life, and support with meaningful structured activities that can improve service users quality of life.
About the role:
You will be a creative and motivated individual with a flexible approach towards supporting people with mental health problems. Your aim will be to provide direct support to adults using community mental health services within the Lewisham Directorate. These clients will typically require your support to achieve a period of re-enablement, stabilisation or preventative intervention.
Support Planners will be based within neighbourhood-based community mental health teams, that provides integrated health and social care services.
The aim will be to provide direct support to services users to reach their full potential, to optimise and maintain their independence, and to exercise choice and control over the way that they live their lives.
About the location:
You will be based at Speedwell mental health centre in Deptford
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLAM. It’s important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance,flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease,our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation,our staff benefits fromkeyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
We look forward to receiving your application.
1. To participate in the assessment of service users' mental and physical health needs including risk assessment and early signs of relapse, promptly reporting observations to those in the team with responsibility for care.
2. To work in partnership with service-users, carers and more senior staff to identify goals and to develop self-directed support plans
3. To identify and overcome barriers to achieving goals by providing practical time-limited support to service-users in the community to assist them to develop skills and to access available resources
4. To participate in the planning and delivery of support in a way which promotes recovery and social inclusion, including delivery of group interventions.
5. To support care coordinators to review the need for ongoing care packages following a period of re-enablement and as part of the process of Self-Directed Support for those who are eligible for care packages and Personal Budgets.
This advert closes on Monday 5 Aug 2024