Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 3 Support Worker to contribute to the development of the older adult mental health services.
The post is suitable for non-registered support staff, with some prior experience working with older adults with mental health difficulties. You will need to support registered staff in carrying out a variety of mental health needs assessments and interventions, both with individuals, their carers, and groups. You should be confident and competent in working with individuals in a community setting and be able to work effectively in a multi-professional context. You should have collaborative and enthusiastic styles as well as a passion and commitment to promote service provision for older adults with mental health and dementia-related needs.
The post requires you to be a good communicator and adopt a flexible, adaptable, and proactive approach to your work. You will take a role in the memory service, supporting initial assessments, post-diagnostic support, and individual and group interventions for people being assessed for and diagnosed with dementia. You will also provide initial conversations and interventions for those with various mental health difficulties (other than dementia).
The service is currently operational between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Support registered staff in carrying out mental health needs assessments and interventions.
2. Engage with individuals, their carers, and groups in a community setting.
3. Provide support in the memory service, including initial assessments and post-diagnostic support.
4. Conduct individual and group interventions for dementia assessments.
5. Provide initial conversations and interventions for various mental health difficulties.
About Us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability, and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, serving an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard, and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman is recognized as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our mission is what we set out to do every day: We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.
Our vision is where we want to be in the future: To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Person Specification
Experience with Mental Health Conditions
* Experience with mental health conditions.
* 2 years of experience in working with people experiencing mental health difficulties.
Experience within Health Settings
* Experience within healthcare settings.
* 2 years working within a healthcare setting.
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.
Employer Name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Lead Clinician, Ashford and Cant Memory Service
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