Link Worker inIsleworth inIsleworth PUBLISHED TUE 22 OCT 2024

Band 4: £31,081 to £33,665 a year per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS PERMANENT GOOD SALARY

CASELOAD MENTAL HEALTH MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NHS

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The West London NHS Trust is seeking a Link Worker (band 4) to join its Older People's Mental Health Services (OPMHS) team in Hounslow. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to the transformation and expansion of mental health services for older adults, in alignment with the NHS Long Term Plan. Ideal candidates should have clinical skills and a passion for working with older individuals facing mental health and physical healthcare issues. The position involves conducting home visits, facilitating therapeutic activities, and managing a defined caseload within a multi-disciplinary team, all under the supervision of a higher banded nurse.

The Link Worker will play a key role in delivering essential support to older adults with functional mental health problems in the community, while also participating in departmental and Trust improvement projects. Candidates must not require visa sponsorship now or in the future. The position promises a supportive environment within a newly established team dedicated to pioneering mental health care for older adults.

Exciting opportunities have arisen following a review of provision of mental health services for older people at West London NHS Trust. We are in the fortunate position of transforming and expanding our service to meet the needs of older people with mental health needs.

We are looking for a Link Worker (band 4), to join our Older People's Mental Health (OPMHS) team in Hounslow. If you are interested to join a team of enthusiastic and committed professionals in delivering the NHS Long Term Plan for Older Adults Mental Health services (2, this will be an ideal role for you.

We want to hear from you if you are dedicated, flexible, forward thinking with clinical skills and desire to work with older people with mental health difficulties and physical healthcare issues.

This post is ideal for a Link Worker who wants to work with older people in the community who have mental health difficulties. We ensure as an employer that the required support you will be part of a new team and as such will be at the forefront of this pioneering work.

The Link Worker will be based in Hounslow and they will be undertaking home visits, meetings at the team base and other community sites.

The Link Worker will work under the supervision higher banded nurse. The Link Worker will carry a defined caseload of patients.

They will utilise their clinical knowledge and skills in the assessment and care of Older Adults with functional mental health problems in the community. They will work within a multi-disciplinary team to undertake the facilitation of groups and individual therapeutic activities.

The Link Worker is expected to contribute to departmental and Trust improvement projects.

The candidate applying for this role should not require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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