Link Team Engagement Worker
Location: Bristol
Salary: £27,198 per annum
Contract: Fixed-Term until 31 March 2026 (with possible extension)
Hours: Full time - 37 hours per week
Do you enjoy the challenge of working with clients experiencing multiple disadvantages? Are you an autonomous and innovative practitioner? Are you interested in joining a multi-agency cross-sector partnership team?
The Link Team works with individuals experiencing multiple disadvantages, including complex mental health difficulties and homelessness, and who face significant barriers to accessing and engaging with support. We are seeking a motivated practitioner who can demonstrate the relational skills required to reach and assertively engage with those furthest from services. The successful candidate will be working within the Link Team and alongside a range of agencies to find creative solutions for individuals, which includes assisting and challenging existing practices, sharing learning and helping to influence the way services are designed and delivered.
The Link Team is funded by NHS England and is a multi-agency partnership including Second Step, St Mungos, BDP, AWP Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Bristol City Council. The team has adopted a multi-disciplinary model, including engagement workers, a peer worker, a mental health practitioner (band 6), a social worker, and a team manager.
This service is designed to complement rather than replace or supersede existing local provision. The service works with a group of 30 individuals who are both street homeless, or at imminent risk of homelessness; and experiencing severe emotional distress associated with a mental health problem (which may or may not have been given a formal diagnosis). The Link Team aims to improve engagement for service users, creating a bridge between individuals and the wide range of expertise across the system, whilst providing person-centred, trauma-informed care at every stage of the pathway.
Interview date(s): Friday 11th April 2025
The ability to travel to several appointments daily is essential.
For more information and to apply please see our website www.second-step.co.uk. Second Step is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community and from people who have personal experience of using mental health services. Unfortunately, Second Step is unable to sponsor applicants from outside the UK.
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