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 stabilise situations preventing admissions to hospital and premature moves into long term care. The role involves you 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 To undertake work as guided by Practitioners with a specific and clear role from the outset. To build relationships and engage with individuals and their family To provide intensive short-term goal orientated input to the person To explore and better understand needs and risks for individuals To test out and trial care and support with the individuals and then hand over to external agency following this To support people to access resources in the local community To demonstrate/transfer knowledge and skills to other carers/family members To be flexible and adaptable in the input you give To highlight any concerns or risks to the Practitioner responsible for the case To write notes of visits and input onto the computer system in a timely manner
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.
Benefits included with this role are:-
* NHS pension
* 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)
* staff physio service
* NHS discounts and many more