Senior Support Worker - Crisis and Home Treatment - Melksham
Do you want to be part of a new service that offers intensive, personally tailored mental health support for children and young people?
We are looking for enthusiastic, caring individuals with a passion for working with young people with mental health difficulties to join our exciting new CAMHS Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Service (CAHTS). Following new investment, we are proud to be developing a needs-led service based on the i-Thrive model.
This will be a service consistent with the nationally defined Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team clinical model. Accessibility, responsiveness and excellence in care, with the highest regard for service experience will be at the heart of the service.
Main duties of the job
Based in Melksham, you would be part of a thriving multidisciplinary team who work closely together and support each other. We would welcome applications from clinicians with some experience of working with children or adults with mental health difficulties.
You will support and enhance the clinical care of patients and their parents/carers within the CAMHS Crisis and Home Treatment Service. You will also support the mental health assessments and interventions led by qualified clinicians for children and young people in crisis, waiting to enter or leaving inpatient adolescent care and those who require intensive home treatment.
The post holder will be required to participate in a flexible working pattern within the multidisciplinary team to provide cover for a core day 8am-8pm Monday-Friday and 10am-6pm Saturday-Sunday and Bank Holidays.
About us
You will be offered a variety of training including Positive Behaviour Support, AMBIT, DBT coping skills, and Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders. There will also be the opportunity for further training based around individual learning needs.
Benefits of working for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Staff accommodation
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
Job responsibilities
* To provide meal supports for children and young people with an eating disorder, under the direction of the eating disorder service care coordinator.
* To prepare psychoeducational material for children, young people and their families, and for use of other agencies staff, under the supervision of a qualified clinician in the team.
* To prepare and organise materials for therapeutic input, under the supervision of a qualified clinician in the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Five GCSE's at grade C/level 5
* CPD in the area of children and young people's mental health.
Knowledge
* An understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with mental health problems.
* Knowledge of the developmental emotional challenges for children and young people.
Experience
* Experience of working with service users with mental health difficulties.
* Experience of working as a support worker or an assistant psychologist.
* Experience of working with children and adolescents.
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.
£26,530 to £29,114 per annum/pro-rata
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