Physical Health Worker, Assertive Outreach Team inBrighton inBrighton PUBLISHED
MON 3 JUN 2024
Job summary
Are you a Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant, or Registered Nursing Associate with training in Venepuncture and experience of physical health checks, with a motivation to work in mental health?
Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small, but complex caseload?
If so, our Band 4 Physical Healthcare Worker role in our Assertive Outreach Team may be the role for you!
Our Brighton Assertive Outreach Team are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 physical health worker. You will need to be venepuncture trained and could potentially be a Registered Nursing Associate. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for an Assertive Outreach Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 30 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with AOT patients, depending on your experience.
Main duties of the job
We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.
The AOT work with individuals who are difficult to engage. These individuals present with complex needs, including severe & enduring mental health needs, substance misuse, forensic issues and housing difficulties and may have often had unsuccessful working relationships with mental health services in the past. The work we do with this group is so crucial and the job satisfaction we receive when we make a breakthrough with patients is incredible.
Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their relatively small, yet complex caseload, primarily around physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.
About us
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Living & Working in Brighton:
o Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractionso Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstepo Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key staff survey results include:o 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at worko 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their teamo 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached two Job Description documents (Registered Nurse Associate, or Support Time and Recovery Worker) for the full details on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached two Job Description documents (Registered Nurse Associate, or Support Time and Recovery Worker) for the full details on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Essential
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Community Mental Health Centre
Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW
Employer's website
Are you a Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant, or Registered Nursing Associate with training in Venepuncture and experience of physical health checks, with a motivation to work in mental health?
Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small, but complex caseload?
If so, our Band 4 Physical Healthcare Worker role in our Assertive Outreach Team may be the role for you!
Our Brighton Assertive Outreach Team are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 physical health worker. You will need to be venepuncture trained and could potentially be a Registered Nursing Associate. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for an Assertive Outreach Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 30 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with AOT patients, depending on your experience.
Main duties of the job
We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.
The AOT work with individuals who are difficult to engage. These individuals present with complex needs, including severe & enduring mental health needs, substance misuse, forensic issues and housing difficulties and may have often had unsuccessful working relationships with mental health services in the past. The work we do with this group is so crucial and the job satisfaction we receive when we make a breakthrough with patients is incredible.
Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their relatively small, yet complex caseload, primarily around physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.
About us
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Living & Working in Brighton:
o Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractionso Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstepo Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key staff survey results include:o 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at worko 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their teamo 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached two Job Description documents (Registered Nurse Associate, or Support Time and Recovery Worker) for the full details on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached two Job Description documents (Registered Nurse Associate, or Support Time and Recovery Worker) for the full details on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development (A,I)
Essential
- Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems (A/I)
- Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels (I)
- Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc (A)
- Empathy, compassion and patience (I)
- Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs (I)
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users (A,I)
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings. (A,I)
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers. (A,I)
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems. (A,I)
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities (A,I)
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities (A/I)
- An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour. (I)
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development (A,I)
Essential
- Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems (A/I)
- Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels (I)
- Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc (A)
- Empathy, compassion and patience (I)
- Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs (I)
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users (A,I)
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings. (A,I)
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers. (A,I)
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems. (A,I)
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities (A,I)
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities (A/I)
- An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour. (I)
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Community Mental Health Centre
Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW
Employer's website
Job summary
Are you a Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant, or Registered Nursing Associate with training in Venepuncture and experience of physical health checks, with a motivation to work in mental health?
Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small, but complex caseload?
If so, our Band 4 Physical Healthcare Worker role in our Assertive Outreach Team may be the role for you!
Our Brighton Assertive Outreach Team are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 physical health worker. You will need to be venepuncture trained and could potentially be a Registered Nursing Associate. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for an Assertive Outreach Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 30 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with AOT patients, depending on your experience.
Main duties of the job
We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.
The AOT work with individuals who are difficult to engage. These individuals present with complex needs, including severe & enduring mental health needs, substance misuse, forensic issues and housing difficulties and may have often had unsuccessful working relationships with mental health services in the past. The work we do with this group is so crucial and the job satisfaction we receive when we make a breakthrough with patients is incredible.
Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their relatively small, yet complex caseload, primarily around physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.
About us
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Living & Working in Brighton:
o Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractionso Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstepo Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key staff survey results include:o 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at worko 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their teamo 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached two Job Description documents (Registered Nurse Associate, or Support Time and Recovery Worker) for the full details on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached two Job Description documents (Registered Nurse Associate, or Support Time and Recovery Worker) for the full details on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Essential
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Community Mental Health Centre
Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW
Employer's website
Are you a Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant, or Registered Nursing Associate with training in Venepuncture and experience of physical health checks, with a motivation to work in mental health?
Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small, but complex caseload?
If so, our Band 4 Physical Healthcare Worker role in our Assertive Outreach Team may be the role for you!
Our Brighton Assertive Outreach Team are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 physical health worker. You will need to be venepuncture trained and could potentially be a Registered Nursing Associate. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for an Assertive Outreach Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 30 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with AOT patients, depending on your experience.
Main duties of the job
We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support.
The AOT work with individuals who are difficult to engage. These individuals present with complex needs, including severe & enduring mental health needs, substance misuse, forensic issues and housing difficulties and may have often had unsuccessful working relationships with mental health services in the past. The work we do with this group is so crucial and the job satisfaction we receive when we make a breakthrough with patients is incredible.
Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their relatively small, yet complex caseload, primarily around physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.
About us
The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Living & Working in Brighton:
o Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractionso Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstepo Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Key staff survey results include:o 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at worko 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their teamo 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached two Job Description documents (Registered Nurse Associate, or Support Time and Recovery Worker) for the full details on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached two Job Description documents (Registered Nurse Associate, or Support Time and Recovery Worker) for the full details on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development (A,I)
Essential
- Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems (A/I)
- Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels (I)
- Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc (A)
- Empathy, compassion and patience (I)
- Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs (I)
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users (A,I)
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings. (A,I)
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers. (A,I)
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems. (A,I)
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities (A,I)
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities (A/I)
- An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour. (I)
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development (A,I)
Essential
- Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems (A/I)
- Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels (I)
- Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc (A)
- Empathy, compassion and patience (I)
- Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs (I)
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users (A,I)
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings. (A,I)
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers. (A,I)
- A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems. (A,I)
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities (A,I)
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities (A/I)
- An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour. (I)
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Community Mental Health Centre
Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW
Employer's website
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