Inpatient Activities Clinical Support Worker
Langley Green Hospital in Crawley is looking for a Band 3 Inpatient Activities Clinical Support Worker to join the Multi-disciplinary team on the ward.
The Band 3 Inpatient Activities Clinical Support Worker role is full time, 37.5 hours, with evening and weekend working essential.
Langley Green is an acute inpatient hospital for working age and older adults with functional mental health and physical health needs.
Main Duties of the Job
The Band 3 Inpatient Activities Clinical Support Worker role includes facilitation of recreational, social, and educational groups and individual activities for the service users on the ward. This role involves planning, promoting, delivering, and evaluating activities in accordance with service users' needs.
You would be part of a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team with opportunities to work in close collaboration with colleagues including: Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Clinical Support Workers, Nurses, Nursing Assistants, Doctors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Employment Specialists, and Chaplains. You will also work with our community practitioners to support service users in their recovery.
Your skills will be developed through Clinical Supervision and Training opportunities.
To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.
About Us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has teaching status and is developing into one of the country's leading teaching mental health trusts.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Job Responsibilities
To work with other members of the multidisciplinary team to facilitate recreational, social, and educational group and individual activities for the service users on the ward/unit. To lead, plan, promote, deliver, and evaluate delegated activities in accordance with the service users' needs to meet goals identified in the individuals' positive wellness plan.
Please see detailed job description and main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical/life skills
* Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
* Health care or relevant NVQ level 3 or equivalent skills
Knowledge
* Experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
* Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
* Experience running groups/activities
* Experience working as part of a team
* Experience of being supervised
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.
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