CAMEO, the award winning Early intervention team is looking for a vibrant, forward thinking and engaging support worker to join our team.
The successful post holder will provide an integral part of the service, working with service users to provide recovery focused interventions through ongoing support, practical assistance and problem resolution under the supervision of a senior team member. They will contribute to the regular reviews of service users, participating in the multi-disciplinary professional team in the relevant Pathway/protocols. They will deliver a safe person-centred care focussing on collaborative therapeutic relationships. This will include social inclusion work including supporting them into employment.
Are you confident in providing evidence-based brief interventions or signposting to relevant statutory agencies? Can you support clients in structured activities that promote recovery, physical and mental wellbeing? Are you able tofacilitate wellbeing and activity groups?
Then we are looking forward to meeting YOU!.
To work with service users to provide recovery focused interventions through ongoing support, practical assistance and problem resolution under the supervision of a senior team member.
To contribute to the regular reviews of service users in the team.
To participate within the multi-disciplinary professional team in the relevant Pathway/protocols to deliver safe person-centred care focussing on collaborative therapeutic relationships. This will include social inclusion work including employment.
To provide evidence-based brief interventions or signposting to relevant statutory agencies
To support clients in structured activities that promote recovery, physical and mental wellbeing.
Co-facilitate activity, wellbeing and activity groups.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
• To support service users with their recovery journeys through collaborative goal setting with a range of priority health and social needs under the supervision of a senior member of the team.
• Work with service users to facilitate access and engagement in a range of socially inclusive (including vocational) community based activities.
• Develop an alliance based upon collaboration and mutual respect and within appropriate and transparent boundaries.
• Help users gain access to resources to include benefits and welfare rights, using internal and external expertise as required.
• Help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the user’s progress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the individuals care.
• Provide simple psychological interventions as required under the supervision of an appropriately qualified clinician.
• Participate in regular planning and review meetings with the clinician supervising pieces of work and maintain quality and management of clinical caseload within supervision process (pieces of work may be supervised by more than one team member).
• Maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service user’s case notes as necessary.
• Attend and participate in wider team/care plan review meetings as appropriate.
• Develop good working relationships and work collaboratively with other organizations that are able to help individuals achieve their goals, including vocational and educational providers, training providers, voluntary agencies, accommodation and financial services.
• Participate in the on-going review of the STR workers role and contribute to the Trust-wide process.
• Work flexibly as required by the individual and the Employer, which may require working out of ‘normal office hours’.
• To work using early intervention approaches and ethos.
• To work using assertive outreach approaches and manage your diary appropriately.
• To support service users in using the self Directed Support system to meet care needs. Helping staff from other teams in using SDS and also Direct Payments.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Mar 2025