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Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
About
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health and learning disability services to the people of Leeds and across the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Service users are at the heart of our organisation. We constantly strive to provide the best possible care and support, working closely with related organisations to provide effective, accessible and modern mental health and learning disability services.
Working in partnership with our local communities, our core purpose is to improve the mental health and well being of the people who use our services.
Our Trust was awarded NHS foundation trust status on 1 August 2007. On 1 February 2012 our Trust became known as Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
As a Foundation Trust we are accountable to the people we serve. Our Board of Directors is made up of executive and non-executive directors and is led by a Chair that is a non-executive director.
From 1 October 2015 our Trust has provided specialist mental health and learning disability services to people within Leeds and specialist services in York.
Our purpose
Our purpose is ‘improving health, improving lives’ and this is supported by our vision, values and behaviours.
The Trust is on a journey to embed collective and distributed leadership as close to services and service users as possible, so everyone is working towards shared goals, decision making and working collaboratively.
Community Support Worker
Accepting applications until: 26-Nov-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 26-Nov-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Rough Sleepers Service
- Town
- Leeds
- Postcode
- LS12 3QE
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service
All references should be directed through the Employers HR Department wherever possible to comply with NHS Check Standards. Please ensure that a HR address/email is provided for each referee named.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Community Support Worker with the LYPFT Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service. We are a new team within LYPFT, and you will be part of shaping and developing this much needed new service.
What is most valuable to us is your experience.
It is important to us that you have significant experience working in the community with people who struggle to access mainstream services. Our client group are rough sleeping or in precarious living arrangements, and like other vulnerable groups they often face difficulties and barriers in accessing and engaging with NHS and other support services.
We are a mental health specialist team; you will need to have a good understanding of the impact of mental health difficulties on service users and how mental health services operate.
In your role you will receive supervision, training and support and you will be working collaboratively with Street Support Teams and other services across the city of Leeds, providing psychosocial support to those who need it most. Rough sleeping and homeless services in Leeds are unique and comprehensive and this team has a real opportunity to make a huge difference to those that need support the most.
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We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected]
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will work alongside our Trauma Informed Mental Health Pracititoner in the Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service, and its partner organisations, supporting those in the community who are rough sleeping or at most risk of rough sleeping.
You will be:
o Providing direct support to service users sleeping rough in the community in the form of outreach support, this means extensive travel across the post codes of Leeds to meet the needs of the service
o Joining our partner service, CGL for regular outreach work travelling across the city of Leeds and it’s surrounding areas to meet the mental health needs of service users
o Spending time at St Anne’s Resource Centre on York Steet, Leeds, to provide mental health support for service users and staff at the Help Hub
o Attending team meetings each week with the Rough Sleepers Mental Health Team and meetings with the Street Support Teams
o Demonstrating and role modelling person centred approaches to service users and staff
o Contributing to the triaging, assessment, planning and evaluation of support for individuals accessing our service
o Working closely with our partners across the city to work in an integrated way to provide a psychologically informed approach in the work we do
o Completing case notes and documentation effectively and within a timely manner on our record keeping systems
o Keeping up to date with interventions and relevant information regarding mental health in homelessness
You will have:
o Excellent verbal and nonverbal communication skills to work with both our service user group and support staff
o The capacity to embrace change and be proactive
o Experience of working with mental health, complex needs and vulnerabilities in a community/outreach setting providing psychosocial interventions
o Experience of managing a caseload
o Excellent self-motivation and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision whilst accessing appropriate support when required
o Experience of inter-agency and multi-disciplinary working
o Good organisational skills including time management and planning workload
o Recognition and escalation of safeguarding concerns contributing to risk management
o Flexibility and a responsive attitude to service need including willingness to work across city at varying times to service need. The working days are Monday to Friday. Flexibility is required to meet service and service user need. However, there may be a requirement for some early morning or evening hours to meet service demands. This is a full time, permanent role. The ability to travel across the city of Leeds and it’s surrounding areas in a timely manner is essential.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualification in Mental Health/Health and Social Care NVQ Level 4 OR Equivalent experience (Evidence of 2 year minimum) of working with vulnerable people in a community setting such as temporary accommodation, emergency accommodation, street-based lifestyles
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with complex needs and vulnerabilities in a community/outreach setting providing psychosocial interventions
- Experience of managing a caseload
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Marsh
- Job title
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- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07980 957 083
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