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Community Support Worker - LDA Hospital@Home team, Oxford
Client: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 681e8918d8ae
Job Views: 5
Posted: 16.02.2025
Expiry Date: 02.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
We are looking for a Community Support worker who is interested in delivering intensive community support to young people and their families.
Based at our CAMHS Tier 4 service at the Meadow Unit, offering both full-time and part-time opportunities.
The Learning Disability and Autism Hospital at Home team is an innovative new service being developed under the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The team will focus on young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities AND/OR a severe degree of functional impairment associated with an autism diagnosis who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and who could meet the threshold for inpatient care.
In some cases, the team will help prevent unnecessary admissions and in others, young people will be stepped down from tier 4 care through the LDA Hospital at Home team. LDA Hospital at Home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times, and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.
By supporting the care pathway, we will be offering a bespoke service where children and young people are cared for by receiving the appropriate intensity of support but in their own communities. This will:
* Reduce the burden on families to travel long distances
* Enhance continued engagement with community clinical teams
* Encourage early therapeutic home leave
* Minimise Length of Stay
Main duties of the job
Some of your key duties will include:
* Supporting young people and their families experiencing a wide range of mental health issues.
* Delivering evidence-based interventions in clinic and in the community.
* Working alongside a range of practitioners.
* Working within the agreed, individualised model providing evidence-based interventions for a wide variety of presentations to support young people and their families and carers within a community setting.
* Linking into inpatient settings to help young people transition back to the community.
* Working alongside a wide variety of professionals.
* Working with a wide network of people involved in the care and treatment of the young person.
* Travelling to see people in the setting that is best for them.
* Providing meal supports for people who are struggling at meal times.
* Working flexibly with extended hours between 8 am-8 pm
* Feeding back any concerns or issues related to the safety of the people you are working with.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health, and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath, and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics, and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe, and excellent”
At Oxford Health, we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust-wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants, and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In this role, we'll offer you clinical supervision, management supervision, reflective spaces, along with opportunities for training and continued professional development. You will also have the opportunity to link with several services across the Thames Valley collaborative within CAMHS.
We're committed to delivering an excellent induction to embed you into the service and ensure you have the skills and confidence to enjoy your job. We'll also provide the most helpful in-house training pertinent to your role to help you develop the right skills.
Please answer the following questions in your personal statement for the role:
* What does being a support worker in the LDA H@H team mean to you?
* What do you think will make the most difference supporting young people with an LD or Autism diagnosis to stay in the community as an alternative to inpatient support?
Person specification
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of working in a children’s service.
* Knowledge of Safeguarding policy and procedures
Skills
* Compassionate - Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers, and relatives, remaining sensitive and empathetic.
* Listens to others’ views, respecting and valuing individual patient needs
* Highly developed communication and team working skills
Qualifications
* Good standard of education
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust-wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
* We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring, and excellent.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
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