Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
BeeU provides emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children and young people (ages 0 to 25) in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
We are looking to recruit a Band 3 Crisis Home Treatment Support Worker who can provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users with mental health needs.
You will promote service-users' recovery and assist them in maintaining their place in the community or managing transitions between services.
You will work alongside the Shift Co-ordinator/Lead Professional to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualised care plans.
You will be responsible for the provision of planned recovery-focused care working with a defined caseload. You will be expected to work collaboratively with other Trust services to provide seamless care for service-users on defined care pathways.
In return, as a Trust, we offer a range of training and developmental opportunities.
Main duties of the job
* Communicates with service-users and carers, all members of the multi-disciplinary team, and staff in external agencies using a variety of methods including Information Technology.
* Regularly reports and effectively communicates service-users' health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to care co-ordinators and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
* Relates appropriately with service-users, carers, colleagues, and others, maintaining professional boundaries at all times.
* Ensures that own actions support the equality, diversity, rights, and responsibilities of individuals.
* Identifies, minimizes, and reports risks of danger, harm, and abuse to senior colleagues.
* Minimizes risks to self by undertaking safe working practices while regularly working under remote supervision in community settings.
* Works within agreed and established Trust policy and operational procedures.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression.
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
* Options for flexible working.
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
* Free car parking at all trust sites.
* Free flu vaccinations every year.
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
And more, we are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role.
Job responsibilities
The post-holder is responsible for working in partnership with agencies external to the Trust, supporting service-users' access to services in the statutory, independent, and non-statutory sector.
For further information relating to this vacancy, please refer to the attached job description and job specification.
Person Specification
Skills
* Effective communication.
* Demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours.
* Be willing to continuously learn and grow.
Experience
* Experience working within a Mental Health setting.
* Experience of working with people with Mental Health Needs as a member of a multi-disciplinary community team.
* Experience of interest in working with young people.
* NVQ 3 in (Mental) Health and Social Care with demonstrable evidence of numeracy and literacy skills (equivalent GCSEs or Functional Skills).
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.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours.
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