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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
About
We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
Contact
- Address
- Swandean
- Arundel Road
- Worthing
- West Sussex
- BN13 3EP
- Contact Number
- 01903 843000
Support Worker East Sussex CAMHS Duty and Liaison Service
Accepting applications until: 04-Feb-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 04-Feb-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- St Annes's Centre - Conquest Hospital
- Address
- The Ridge
- Town
- Hastings
- Postcode
- TN37 7rd
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time - Shift work - (8am to 4pm, 9am to 5pm, 12pm to 8pm, and 10am to 6pm at weekends))
Salary
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 3)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Support Worker-East Sussex CAMHS Duty and Liaison Service
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Band 3 Support Worker based in East Sussex
The role is for 1 x full time support worker with the shift patterns of: 8am -4pm, 9.00am -5.00pm, 12pm - 8pm and 10.00am to 6.00pm weekends and public holidays.
The role will be variable and exciting, sometimes challenging and there is a need for flexibility but it is always very interesting and rewarding. You will need to be motivated, forward thinking and have a strong commitment to providing high quality care to provide the best outcomes for young people. Excellent risk assessment and safety planning skills are essential to this role.
Advert
As a support worker in the DLT Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) you will work with other members of the East Sussex Duty and Liaison Team to support children and young people experiencing a mental health crisis and their families/carers. You will provide this enhanced support in order to offer least restrictive options for young people, to enable young people to remain living in their communities and avoid hospital admissions where possible. Training relevant to your post will be offered.
You will work with the multi-disciplinary team within a hospital and community setting to establish and deliver recovery focused interventions and care for young people. You will be supporting young people who are waiting for interventions from Community CAMHS as part of this role.
You will put service users’ needs at the heart of the job, keeping people safe, contributes to effective interventions, and responds compassionately to distress.
Training relevant to your post will be offered.
Working for our organisation
We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Working in Sussex:
- With a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there's always new experiences to be enjoyed
- Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London
- Easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK
We’d love you to join our organisation that is rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Other key staff survey results include:
- 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
- 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team
See the attached Partnership Perks document for details about our benefits package.
Flexible Working: We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Comfortable in providing support for young people experiencing a mental health crisis.
Experienced in working with young people with mental health needs
Able to travel across East Sussex as needed
MAIN DUTIES
To work with other members of the East Sussex Duty and Liaison team to support children and young people experiencing a mental health crisis and their families/carers.
Supporting recovery focused interventions which may include support with care and safety plans both as in reach onto paediatric wards and at CAMHS bases across East Sussex.
To liaise with GPs, mental health services, voluntary service agencies, social services, police and other appropriate agencies or individuals with regard to young people’s issues.
To assist clinicians to support Community CAMHS with young people who are awaiting allocation of a Lead Practitioner, therapeutic work or are waiting for an initial assessment with therapeutic interventions.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Criteria
Essential criteria
- Experience working with children and young people
- Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
- Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with young people/families/carers in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, as well as their families and carers.
- Ability to deal sensitively with staff and young people/families/carers in person and on the telephone. Ability to communicate effectively.
- Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members/carers within boundaries of confidentiality.
- Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
- Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
- Awareness of the importance of confidentiality – ability to work within appropriate boundaries.
- Ability to use good judgement skills when dealing with service users/carers enquiries and problems
- Able to prioritise workload according to young peoples’ changing needs and the priorities of the team
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team.
- Familiar with different IT systems
- Able to deal with a range of young people presenting with mental health difficulties, their supporters and the clinical team on a daily basis.
- Able to concentrate on specific activities for up to an hour at a time.
- Able to deal with conflicting demands in an unpredictable work pattern.
- Able to work flexibly and adapt to each person as appropriate to their needs in a variety of settings.
- You will be flexible with office-based working with a Team of skilled professionals or working remotely using technology to communicate with others
- Ability to travel long distances
- Ability to demonstrate respect, empathy and dignity towards Service Users
- Commitment to team working and ability to work successfully in a team
- Ability to travel across sites in good time
- Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
Desirable criteria
- Emotional first aid or other emotional well-being basic training or understanding
- Experience of working with children and young people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience of being supervised
- Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users.
- Able to contribute to risk assessments, drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, once trained and under clinical supervision
- Able to analyse and formulate multiple sources of information to contribute to the team’s understanding of young peoples difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
- Able to deal directly with distressing or emotional circumstances when they arise.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicki Cassidy
- Job title
- Clinical Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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