Job overview
Link Homelessness Service
If you are an experienced Mental Health Practitioner who is passionate about improving services for adults who experience street homelessness and severe emotional distress, and who may have multiple and complex needs, this could be the next exciting opportunity for you.
The Link Team:
1. improves engagement for clients, creating a bridge between individuals and the wide range of expertise across the system.
2. provides person-centred, trauma-informed care throughout the client journey, including transitions to other services and relationship/service endings.
3. builds trust with clients through a strong relational approach.
4. takes support to the client, wherever they are.
5. employs an assertive engagement approach where needed (being flexible, persistent, creative, relentlessly optimistic).
6. adopts a holistic and joined-up approach to support, ensuring that areas of disadvantage are not seen in isolation but as intersecting and treated as such.
This role provides an exciting opportunity to further develop the service and partnership working between Link Team and AWP services using your own ideas and experience, alongside colleagues, building on the learning from Golden Key (through their work with people experiencing multiple disadvantages), My Team Around Me (MTAM) model, and other evidence-based practice.
Main duties of the job
This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and their carers (including friends and relatives) and their supporters in the community.
The role will require you to assist service users with meeting their daily health, social care and wellbeing needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with mainstream services.
The post holder will also provide clinical leadership and supervision to team members.
Always under the overarching framework of Your Team, Your Conversation, Your Plan, the post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care and wellbeing needs, acting as care coordinator for a defined group of service users.
You will be required to undertake tasks such as delivering specific health or social care assessments and interventions, according to care clusters, including identified service users on other caseloads. This may be either on a one to one basis, or as part of a group activity.
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