Mental Health Support Worker - Female Only, Newcastle
Mental Health Support Worker - Newcastle (Female Only)
Does your current role empower you to give your aspired level of person-centred care from beginning to end of the patient journey?
Claimont Health is a CQC registered unique service provider in the private sector, providing high-profile, person-centred, holistic services to clients who prefer to be treated in the comfort of their own home. We offer a tailored service, providing highly skilled mental health professionals to complement clients' needs.
As a member of our clinical team, you will be offered a varied caseload of work, depending on your skills and experience. You will care for your client on a Live-In or Home Visit basis, where you will have the opportunity to work one-to-one in a calm environment that feels secure for them.
Main duties of the job
Your experience will reflect in your practice as you see the resulting outcomes of your skills and expertise in enabling our clients to use their strengths to improve their own well-being.
What do we need from you?
* 1 year or more experience as a Mental Health Support Worker within a forensic setting.
* Flexibility, maturity, independence, and the very highest professional standards.
* Commitment to delivering client-specific care.
* Adaptable approach to support clients and family members.
* Ability to maintain clear professional boundaries within a home setting.
About us
So, what can we offer you in return for your dedication and commitment?
* Competitive pay - £13.50 per hour.
* Comfortable working environments.
* Paid Induction and CPD support.
Please apply if you would like to hear more about an opportunity where you will have time to provide the specialist care you envisaged when you chose your career in mental health.
Claimont Health follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.
Job responsibilities
Job title: Support Worker
Department: Clinical Operations
Job purpose: Claimont Home Care Ltd is a CQC registered unique service in the private sector delivering specialist mental health nursing at home when inpatient admission is being considered or for inpatients treated in hospital but who wish, and are able, to be discharged home. Claimont is not an agency. We invest in people and build relationships based on mutual support and long-term commitment. The work we offer our staff can be extremely varied and is rooted in a Patient Centred, holistic approach. We value our nurses and support workers' skills and experience and support them with any additional training requirements they may need. We are looking for high-quality, dynamic, and experienced Mental Health Support Workers who are able to provide Live-In and/or domiciliary home care to join our team of Bank Staff.
Key accountabilities
* Support clients in their care.
* Ensure management policies and protocols are adhered to as they are updated and respond to national and local guidance.
* Maintain written records of all aspects of client treatment and progress throughout the treatment process.
* Complete and maintain all documentation and records as required, including electronic patient records within 24 hours of the event.
* Carry out activities with clients that enable full access to community life.
* Work with families/carers to assist them in understanding mental health and coping effectively with issues arising from their role as carers.
* Maintain the highest degree of confidentiality in delivery of treatment packages.
* Maintain effective communication with referring agents as appropriate.
* Maintain a high level of professional core psychiatric skills.
* Maintain effective clinical links with colleagues, carers, and relatives of clients and develop links with community services/resources.
* Encourage the use of evidence-based practice.
* Attend and fully contribute to all team meetings.
* Report assessment findings in the appropriate format to the necessary parties.
* Ensure confidentiality and security of patient data is always maintained in compliance with the Data Protection Act.
* Attend appropriate mandatory training courses in line with the requirements of the role, Health and Safety Regulations, and as part of personal development.
To carry out any other duties as requested by the Registered Manager to ensure the quality of service provided by the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Basic computer skills.
* Post-basic qualifications in health care.
* Degree level post-basic qualifications in health care.
* Current, Clean, Full car driving Licence.
Experience
* Evidence of appropriate resource management.
* Working collaboratively as part of a multi-professional team.
* Providing consistency in a role.
* Building trust and working collaboratively with a patient.
* Delivering health care services to people with mental health problems across a variety of settings, including community and forensic.
Skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Able to manage change, flexible and adaptable.
* Able to work to deadlines in a pressurised environment.
* Dynamic, willing to work collaboratively.
* Good presentation skills.
* Enhanced influencing skills.
* Ability to self-manage.
* Able to manage a situation/patient in crisis.
* Able to build relationships in difficult situations.
* Able to adapt and fit in appropriately to surroundings.
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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