Mental Health Care Support Worker - IMHT Stafford Community Team - NHS - ref. m75927823
Job overview
Band 3 – Community Support Worker - IMHT Stafford
Are you a Community Mental Health Support Worker looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you're in luck.
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our Integrated Mental Health Team based in Stafford.
Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society. It's a career that you can take pride in and enjoy, and together we can make life better for our communities.
Main duties of the job- You will be responsible for the provision of planned recovery focused care working with a defined caseload.
- Working collaboratively with other Trust services to provide seamless care for service users in the Integrated Mental Health Teams
- Responsible for working in partnership with agencies external to the Trust supporting service-users access to services in the independent and non-statutory sector.
- Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan, to assist the service user to achieve their recovery goals including; improving activities of daily living, social inclusion, meaningful occupation, accessing employment, mental health promotion and physical health promotion.
- Undertake physical health assessments including; weight, height, blood pressure, ECG & phlebotomy.
- Responsible for contributing towards planning and undertaking delivery of planned therapeutic activities with an identified group of service users as an element of the care programme approach.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:
- Supporting your career development and progression.
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccination every year
- Attractive relocation package
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early depending on the amount of applications we receive.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Check out the videos below showcasing why you should join MPFT and grow your career:
Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
What is it like to be a Healthcare Support Worker within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
The Integrated Mental Health teams work as part of a 'neighbourhood' offering place based provision of mental health services in partnership with other local organisations. Clinicians within the IMHT will offer interventions and treatments which are concordant with NICE guidelines, and allocation within the team will be based on the needs of the service user, matching clinician skills to service user needs.
Please note you will need to travel to service users houses, different MPFT bases and so you will need access to the appropriate form of travel.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- NVQ 3 in (Mental) Health and Social Care with demonstrable evidence of numeracy and literacy skills (equivalent GCSE’s or Functional Skills) Or equivalent i.e Health social care qualification at least equivalent to the above that equips the person with the necessary knowledge, skill and competence as outlined below OR Advanced Apprenticeship in (Mental) health and Social Care
- Phlebotomy
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working with people with Mental Health Needs non-Dementia related
- Experience of working with people with Mental Health needs as a member of a multi-disciplinary community team
- Experience of co-facilitating group based interventions
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to mental health, access to mental health serv the and mental health promotion.ices, health assessment including
- Skills in managing situations of high expressed emotions, and an ability to manage one’s own emotion state.
- ility to work independently, being self motivated and to be able to prioritise and effectively manage a range of competing needs and pressures