Community Clinical Support Worker - DIST Team
Community Clinical Support Worker - Dementia Intensive Support Team - West Suffolk
An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the West Suffolk Dementia Intensive Support Team. You will be joining a motivated and passionate multi-disciplinary team working to achieve positive outcomes for service users and their carers.
The team is community-based and works in individuals' homes to prevent breakdown of care and support, to promote independence, and stabilize situations preventing admissions to hospital and premature moves into long-term care.
The role involves working with service users, building trust and rapport, and enabling them to have the appropriate care and support in place to maintain their independence.
The role involves working with the support of practitioners but managing your own workload and working autonomously in the community.
Main duties of the job
1. To undertake work as guided by Practitioners with a specific and clear role from the outset.
2. To build relationships and engage with individuals and their family.
3. To provide intensive short-term goal-oriented input to the person.
4. To explore and better understand needs and risks for individuals.
5. To test out and trial care and support with the individuals and then hand over to external agency following this.
6. To support people to access resources in the local community.
7. To demonstrate/transfer knowledge and skills to other carers/family members.
8. To be flexible and adaptable in the input you give.
9. To highlight any concerns or risks to the Practitioner responsible for the case.
10. To write notes of visits and input onto the computer system in a timely manner.
11. To manage your own workload effectively.
About us
Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Why work for us?
We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work, and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Benefits included with this role are:
* a comprehensive in-house & external training programmes.
* career progression.
* starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays).
* NHS discounts and many more.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?
The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or beautiful countryside. We're an hour and a half away from London and our villages, towns, and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops, and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top-ranking schooling, and affordable house prices too.
Job responsibilities
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of specialist mental health services for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, serving a population of 1.6 million.
The Dementia Intensive Support Team is a part of the Suffolk Care Group, working within the community to meet the needs of people with Dementia and their carers.
See under main duties of the job, the clinical support worker's main role is engaging with and building a relationship with the service user and their family to enable care and support to be introduced to maintain them in their own homes. This involves assessing and identifying needs and risks and working autonomously.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Person Specification
Experience
* Previous experience within the care sector.
* Mental health experience.
Qualifications
* Care Certificate - must be achieved within the first 12 weeks of employment.
* NVQ Level 2/3 in Health and Social Care.
Skills
* Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Other
* Ability to travel independently.
Knowledge
* Awareness of professional boundaries in relation to client care.
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.
£24,071 to £25,674 a year gross per annum.
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