Job summary Community Clinical Support Worker - Dementia Intensive Support Team - West Suffolk An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the West Suffolk Dementia Intensive Support Team. You will be joining a motivated and passionate multi-disciplinary team working to achieve positive outcomes for service users and their carers. The team is community based and works in individuals homes to prevent breakdown of care and support, to promote independence and stabilise situations preventing admissions to hospital and premature moves into long term care. The role involves you working with service users, building trust and rapport and enabling them to have the appropriate care and support in place to maintain their independence. The role involves working with the support of practitioners but managing your own workload and working autonomously in the community. Main duties of the job To undertake work as guided by Practitioners with a specific and clear role from the outset. To build relationships and engage with individuals and their family To provide intensive short-term goal orientated input to the person To explore and better understand needs and risks for individuals To test out and trial care and support with the individuals and then hand over to external agency following this To support people to access resources in the local community To demonstrate/transfer knowledge and skills to other carers/family members To be flexible and adaptable in the input you give To highlight any concerns or risks to the Practitioner responsible for the case To write notes of visits and input onto the computer system in a timely manner To be able to manage own workload effectively About us Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other. Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about. Benefits Benefits included with this role are:- NHS pension a comprehensive in house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) staff physio service NHS discounts and many more Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or beautiful countryside. We're an hour and a half away from London and our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too. Date posted 05 November 2024 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 3 Salary £24,071 to £25,674 a year gross per annum Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number 246-WSU6722905 Job locations G Block Hospital Road Bury St Edmunds IP33 3NR Job description Job responsibilities Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of specialist mental health services for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, serving a population of 1.6 million. The Dementia Intensive Support Team is a part of the Suffolk Care Group, working within the community to meet the needs of people with Dementia and their carers. See under main duties of the job, the clinical support workers main role is engaging with and building a relationship with the service user and their family to enable care and support to be introduced to maintain them in their own homes. This involves, assessing and identifying needs and risks and working autonomously. Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying. Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page NSFTjobs Job description Job responsibilities Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of specialist mental health services for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, serving a population of 1.6 million. The Dementia Intensive Support Team is a part of the Suffolk Care Group, working within the community to meet the needs of people with Dementia and their carers. See under main duties of the job, the clinical support workers main role is engaging with and building a relationship with the service user and their family to enable care and support to be introduced to maintain them in their own homes. This involves, assessing and identifying needs and risks and working autonomously. Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying. Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page NSFTjobs Person Specification Experience Essential Previous experience within the care sector Desirable Mental health experience Qualifications Essential Care Certificate - must be achieved within first 12 weeks of employment NVQ Level 2/3, in Health and Social Care Skills Essential Good interpersonal and communication skills Other Essential Ability to travel independently Knowledge Essential Awareness of professional boundaries in relation to client care Person Specification Experience Essential Previous experience within the care sector Desirable Mental health experience Qualifications Essential Care Certificate - must be achieved within first 12 weeks of employment NVQ Level 2/3, in Health and Social Care Skills Essential Good interpersonal and communication skills Other Essential Ability to travel independently Knowledge Essential Awareness of professional boundaries in relation to client care 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). Additional information 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). Employer details Employer name Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Address G Block Hospital Road Bury St Edmunds IP33 3NR Employer's website https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)