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Vocational Worker COTH | West London NHS Trust

Posting date:	22 July 2024
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£29,460 - £31,909 per annum inclusive of HCAS allowance
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	21 August 2024
Location:	SOUTHALL, UB1 3EU
Company:	West London Mental Health Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	6500171/222-SF-561

Summary

To provide comprehensive work skills and training service to clients from the forensic service and community. The service operates within a psychosocial framework whereby service users work alongside staff to reach their own and the unit’s objectives.

We engage with the functioning aspects of service user in order to ensure that the developmental potential of the service user is realised.

To engage with service users to ensure therapeutic and efficient daily operation of a work unit. In order to provide optimum therapeutic opportunities in balance with the working demands of the unit, this role requires the post holder to combine practical expertise in their given area with the ability to model appropriate work behaviour and support service users in developing social, work and task skills.

The role of the assistant work supervisor is to engage with service users and Work Supervisors to ensure therapeutic and efficient daily operation of a work unit. In order to provide optimum therapeutic opportunities in balance with the working demands of the unit, this role requires the post holder to combine practical expertise in their given area with the ability to model appropriate work behaviour and support service users in developing social, work and task skills.
• Food or catering background to support with vocational café training


• Preparation of different types of dishes as part of the menu for the cafe


• To work within the clinical team, inputting and providing feedback on patient progress.


• Following occupational therapy vocational treatment plans to support with skills building, risk management and integration into the community.




• To support with stock management of items within the café – contribute to audits and meeting discussions.


• To be able to support with the management and calculation of the float at the end of each shift.


• Keeping all areas within the café clean to health regulation standards


• To empower and motivate service users within their vocational training


• Support with service wide projects such as weight management, supporting healthier café.


• To be able to input into our electronic system to record key information on patient progress each session and to be able to access key information on the system to check on progress and risk updates.


• To support with shadowing experiences from students and other professional team members


• To take part in vocational reviews with patients to think about their goals, skills training and areas of development this should be done verbally or via written communication

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
• To provide catering/customer service work and training to Team-workers/service users.
• To ensure a high quality, customer response service.
• To utilise work and interpersonal skills to engage service users in the work of the unit.
• To provide a range of work based activities that encourage service user’s development towards their goals.
• Support, facilitate and promote the development potential of each service user
• To monitor service users progress and adapt the work or approach used in accordance with their needs.
• Support, facilitate and promote the development of team working, with shared decision-making and shared responsibility for work undertaken.
• To participate in assessing the service users attending taster sessions as to their suitability for the unit.
• To notify the Senior Vocational worker if service users attending the unit fail to attend
• To participate in work reviews with each client in the unit in accordance with service guidelines.
• Support, facilitate and promote the development of a service users Team Leader within the Work Unit, in close collaboration with Head OT.
• Be aware of the impact of people’s mental health problems and medication on their progress.
• To refer difficulties/mental health issues back to the Occupational Therapist and Clinical Team, record on electronic notes.
• To participate in the planning, reviewing and development of Work Services.
• To participate in the development of an annual unit plan in collaboration with clients and provide a report on the unit’s development for the Work Rehab Annual Report business plan.
• To assist the Senior Vocational worker, to develop the work unit in collaboration with Occupational Therapy and Clinical Teams

· Ensure the Unit is ready to receive service users each day and appropriately tidy at the end of the day.
• Ensure confidentiality for any information obtained relating to staff, service users and the organisation.
• To exercise good personal time management, punctuality and consistent, reliable attendance.
• To act as a role model of good work/professional behaviour for service users


This advert closes on Sunday 28 Jul 2024