Health Care Support Worker

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Health Care Support Worker has arisen in the Taff Ely and Rhondda PCMHSS . We are looking for a reliable, motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the team.

The applicant will be expected to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and organisational skills along with the ability to use their own initiative.

The post holder will deliver psychologically informed interventions and education both 1:1 and in groups to those aged 17 and above and will support individuals throughout a prescribed structured intervention after they have been assessed in LPMHSS including educating individuals on skills that will help them to manage their own mental health.

The post holder will have a reasonable understanding of a range of psycho education and psychological interventions drawn from the principals of CBT, CFT, BSFT, DBT and computer based CBT.

• Working within the legislative framework of Part One of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure, to improve access to mental health support at a primary care level for people with mild to moderate or severe but stable needs.
• The post holder will provide support and guidance to people suffering with mental illness and or distress, having an understanding of the impact of mental illness on the individual and their family/carers.
• The post holder will provide support to an allocated group of patients with a range of mild to moderate mental health care needs and assist their recovery and help them maintain their own community networks.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deliver short term psychologically informed psychoeducation to those within the definition of Part 1 of the Welsh Measure as prescribed and supported by the registered practitioner.
• Provide support to service users on an individual and on a group basis within the community / base setting.
• Provide a range of information and support for evidence informed, high volume, low intensity psychological treatments face to face (both individually, in small-group contexts and in large-group contexts, or by telephone or online).
• Support people with common mental health problems in the self-management of their recovery using guided self-help.
• Engage service users in their care.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ level 3 or equivalent

Knowledge

• Understanding and experience of working with Mental Health issues
• Understand the principals of psychoeducation and the role in supporting people’s recovery.

• Understanding of psychological models

Experience

• Experience working within a group setting and in the community
• Understanding of psychological models
• Experience working within mental health across the age ranges – adult/older adult.

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.