Senior Community Support Worker: Sponsorship Available

Job Summary

We are very excited to be able to offer a part-time senior support worker post within the Gloucester Recovery Team. The post would be based at Pullman Place, a community base for the Recovery and other community teams to enable lots of helpful information/skills/ knowledge sharing and positive interface working. The post would mainly involve active participation and responsibility in working within the well-established Gloucester Clozapine clinic which serves patients prescribed this medication who live in the Gloucester locality and lead responsibility for a defined caseload of Recovery patients with suitable risk and complexity, mainly who access the clinic. Though mainly clinic based, due to the nature of community working the post does require vehicle access and ability to drive.

The Gloucester Recovery Team is a friendly, welcoming and dynamic team providing secondary care services to adults of working age, their families and significant others, to provide the best possible outcomes for people with complex mental health needs. The aim of the team is to work in line with the principles of Recovery and Social Inclusion. We strive to ensure that locality services represent excellent quality, (safe and a positive experience) and good value, (efficient and effective).

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has experience of working with adults of Working Age and supporting individuals with Enduring Mental Health problems.

Main duties of the job

  • Under the supervision of registered practitioners assist in the provision of care and treatment to service users in a community setting, in line with the principles of social inclusion and recovery, and the ‘Capabilities for Inclusive Practice’.
  • To act as a Lead Professional for those service users on Standard care identified and directed by senior practitioners assessing service user’s needs and developing and implementing care plans.
  • To provide support, give time to allocated group of service users with more complex needs and thus promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment.
  • To assist the care co-ordinator or key worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
  • To facilitate access to activities to meet the needs of service users and carers within community settings.
  • To participate in induction and support of new staff and students and to co-supervise junior staff.
  • To attend and participate in identified training and the staff appraisal process.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

  • 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
  • 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
  • 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
  • 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has experience of working with adults of Working Age and supporting individuals with Enduring Mental Health problems.

Alongside regular supervision and peer meetings you will have the opportunity to attend a variety of training courses and practice enhancement to build on your portfolio of continual professional development.

Community Mental Health Services are undergoing significant transformation in the way we work together as part of the national agenda, and there are exciting changes ahead within Gloucester Recovery Team which the successful candidate will have the opportunity to be a part of.

Person Specification

Clinical

Essential

  • NVQ level 3 or equivalent level of competency based training in a relevant health or social care area PLUS theoretical and practical knowledge to diploma level equivalent, obtained through formal competency training, short courses and experience OR successful completion of approved associate practitioner training or relevant foundation degree or commitment to obtain within 2 years.
  • Knowledge of the CPA process
  • Knowledge and understanding of care planning and risk assessment (completed an Approved course in relation to Risk Assessment).

Desirable

  • Knowledge and understanding of using a Recovery based approach to care
  • Clinical skills training (awareness of physical health and wellbeing).

Evidence

Essential

  • Knowledge of relevant legislation e.g. Mental Health Act , Child Protection

Desirable

  • Awareness of issues of diversity

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 30 July 2024

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