Clinical Support Worker | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
The Hawthorn Recovery Unit is an older adults mental health service offering assessment, treatment and rehabilitation on an out patient basis.
The multidisciplinary team work closely together to provide individualised support and treatment.
This role will suit you if you like working in a busy team and are highly motivated to provide good clinical care that respects the individual.
The clinical support worker supports recovery and independence through engagement in activity on a group and individual basis.
Working closely with the the care coordinators in the team to meet individual needs.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
The Clinical Support Worker:
plans and runs group and individual sessions, grading activities to enable inclusion for those with hearing or sight impairment or communication difficulties
contacts service users by phone to prompt for appointments
carries out physical health monitoring under guidance of care coordinators
links with the ward to make first contact with new referrals to establish rapport and invite to appointments
completes progress notes in patient electronic records
carries out environmental and safety checks for the service
books, checks and cancels hospital transport online or by phone
carries out patient satisfaction surveys
participates in team service improvements
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Jan 2025