Community Adolescent Senior Support Worker
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Do you want to be part of an innovative and exciting service, that will support children and young people with acute mental health problems in their homes? If so then a role in the Closer2Home service may be the job for you!
This service operates across the county of Dorset including Poole and Bournemouth BCP.
The Closer2Home team works together to deliver a specialist service to help young people remain at home who otherwise would have been admitted to an inpatient hospital. The service will operate 365 days a year from 8am-8pm.
Joining now will give you a unique opportunity to help shape and develop the service as well as provide a great opportunity to develop your career in an exciting and rewarding area of work.
As a Community Adolescent Senior Support Worker (CASS) you will work as a member of a new multi-disciplinary team which provides an alternative to Tier 4 admission and facilitates supported discharges from hospital.
With team colleagues you will be responsible for delivering time-limited programmes of intensive home treatment to young people who would otherwise have been admitted.
Main duties of the job
You will have specific responsibilities to undertake a range of delegated clinical duties in a community mental health setting involving direct and indirect care to patients under minimal supervision and as directed by the qualified staff team.
Following personal development planning and targeted training you will be in a position to work more autonomously in supporting patients. You will be supported by a career development pathway and as a result, you will develop a broad underpinning knowledge base at intermediate level and have the ability to evaluate information and communicate with a range of professionals.
Job responsibilities
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to diploma or NVQ Level 3 in Care and equivalent Skills acquired through experience working in a healthcare Setting.
* Maths / English Level 2 or equivalent (GCSE C / 4 or above)
* Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology, social policy, health sciences) at 2:2 or above
Knowledge / Experience
* Experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
* Experience working in the community with Mental Health
* Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
* Experience running groups/activities
* Experience working as part of a team
* Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
Skills
* Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
* Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality
* Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
* Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, once trained and under clinical supervision
* Able to prioritise workload according to peoples' changing needs and the priorities of the team
Other
* Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business.
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.
Employer name
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
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