This role is focused around spending time with our service users and as such it is a privileged role that gives you the opportunity to make a real difference to people's lives.
The role will support the multi-disciplinary team to deliver individualized care packages to a small group of service users with both mental health needs and/or learning difficulties, who are either stepping down from low secure and locked rehabilitation placements or who are local service users requiring assessment and treatment for their enduring mental ill health. The aim of the post is to support recovery, independence, quality of life, and well-being, through instilling hope and optimism in every service user so that they can reach their full potential.
Main duties of the job
* To develop knowledge and understanding of the lived experience of people in your care so that you can provide the right support that will meet their own identified needs for recovery.
* To advocate for your service users so that they are at the forefront of designing their own mental health care and support and so that their voice is heard at all levels.
* To develop supportive and caring relationships with individual service users and to provide daily support through encouragement, understanding, and motivation.
* To deliver prescribed 1:1 and group interventions within the scope of the support plan, with care and compassion, this may include but this list is not exhaustive:
1. Budgeting, benefits, and welfare rights
2. Planning, shopping, and cooking of meals
3. Education, occupation, training, and development
4. Healthy lifestyle, healthy choices
5. Activities of daily living
6. Administering of oral medication
7. Rest, relaxation, and vocation
About us
Hello!
We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and well-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.
The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.
We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health, and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.
Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies top 100 large company list.
As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education, and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre.
Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.
We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.
Come and join us!
Job responsibilities
* You will be expected to increase your knowledge in one of the elements of recovery above to support senior staff to deliver specific interventions.
* To provide daily updates to senior staff of individuals' mood, behaviour, interaction, motivation, and mental health so that plans of care can be reviewed accordingly.
* Sensitively support individuals with activities of daily living with the goal to enhance these essential living skills.
* To work without direct supervision, but with someone available to refer to, as and when required, either on or off site on a regular basis.
* Help identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the service user progress, level of functioning, and mental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the person's care.
* To support the service user to integrate into the local community to enable them to feel a sense of purpose and community.
* To maintain informative electronic records as required.
* To undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post.
* Be able to work flexibly within the different elements of the rehabilitation pathway when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* No qualifications required for this entry-level post.
* You will be required to complete medications administration training in your first 6 months and complete the care certificate within your first 2 years.
Experience
* A keen interest in mental health as evidenced by reading on the subject.
* Mental health First Aid training.
* An awareness of Health and Safety in the workplace.
* Working knowledge of the benefits and housing systems.
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.
£23,615 a year on an as and when basis only.
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