Homeless Health Care Support WorkerinSouthamptoninSouthamptonPUBLISHED THU 7 NOV 2024
Additionally, the support worker will assist in delivering evidence-based interventions under supervision and participate in outreach activities as part of the Rough Sleepers Initiative. Responsibilities include recording interactions using the Rio electronic system, participating in supervision and management of case loads, and ensuring care plans are aligned with service users' needs. The Trust promotes flexible working arrangements and is committed to fostering a positive learning culture within the team.
Are you driven to tackling mental health-inequalities in our diverse multi-cultural homeless population in Southampton?
If you're someone who is passionate about providing high-quality holistic care and advocating for marginalised societal groups, then don't miss your opportunity to apply for this unique and varied role within our Homeless Health Care Team.
We welcome applications from people who have NVQ Level 2 in health/ social care or relevant experience in mental health, housing or substance misuse settings. You will have creative and dynamic ways to engage individuals who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness and have a range of mental health issues. You will be an integral part of the team to support practitioners in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex biopsychosocial problems. Strengths-based and recovery-focussed to support services users to meet their mental health needs. You will have excellent communication skills to enable you to foster relationships and engage with a variety of individuals from a diverse range of cultural-backgrounds and partner agencies including CGL, Probation and Southampton City Council local authority. You will contribute to weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and work in partnership with colleagues to evaluate care plans. You will be a positive role-model, reflecting a commitment to maintaining a culture of learning from incidents and valuing two-way feedback.
- To help service users manage their symptoms, under the direction of the Care Coordinator to deliver evidence based interventions.
- To support in outreach interventions in line with the Rough Sleepers Initiative.
- To accurately record all contacts with service users in the Rio electronic record in line with the organisational record keeping policy.
- To participate fully in caseload supervision and management, to ensure that care plans are matched to need and service users are able to flow through pathways of care.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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