Senior Community Support Worker inGloucester inGloucester PUBLISHED 27 DEC 2023
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This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has experience of working with adults of Working Age and supporting individuals with Enduring Mental Health problems.
Alongside regular supervision and peer meetings you will have the opportunity to attend a variety of training courses and practice enhancement to build on your portfolio of continual professional development.
Community Mental Health Services are undergoing significant transformation in the way we work together as part of the national agenda, and there are exciting changes ahead within Gloucester Recovery Team which the successful candidate will have the opportunity to be a part of.
We are very excited to be able to offer a part-time senior support worker post within the Gloucester Recovery Team. The post would be based at Pullman Place, a community base for the Recovery and other community teams to enable lots of helpful information/skills/ knowledge sharing and positive interface working. The post would mainly involve active participation and responsibility in working within the well-established Gloucester Clozapine clinic which serves patients prescribed this medication who live in the Gloucester locality and lead responsibility for a defined caseload of Recovery patients with suitable risk and complexity, mainly who access the clinic. Though mainly clinic based, due to the nature of community working the post does require vehicle access and ability to drive.
The Gloucester Recovery Team is a friendly, welcoming and dynamic team providing secondary care services to adults of working age, their families and significant others, to provide the best possible outcomes for people with complex mental health needs. The aim of the team is to work in line with the principles of Recovery and Social Inclusion. We strive to ensure that locality services represent excellent quality, (safe and a positive experience) and good value, (efficient and effective).
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has experience of working with adults of Working Age and supporting individuals with Enduring Mental Health problems.
- Under the supervision of registered practitioners assist in the provision of care and treatment to service users in a community setting, in line with the principles of social inclusion and recovery, and the 'Capabilities for Inclusive Practice'.
- To act as a Lead Professional for those service users on Standard care identified and directed by senior practitioners assessing service user's needs and developing and implementing care plans.
- To provide support, give time to allocated group of service users with more complex needs and thus promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment.
- To assist the care co-ordinator or key worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
- To facilitate access to activities to meet the needs of service users and carers within community settings.
- To participate in induction and support of new staff and students and to co-supervise junior staff.
- To attend and participate in identified training and the staff appraisal process.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has experience of working with adults of Working Age and supporting individuals with Enduring Mental Health problems.
Alongside regular supervision and peer meetings you will have the opportunity to attend a variety of training courses and practice enhancement to build on your portfolio of continual professional development.
Community Mental Health Services are undergoing significant transformation in the way we work together as part of the national agenda, and there are exciting changes ahead within Gloucester Recovery Team which the successful candidate will have the opportunity to be a part of.
We are very excited to be able to offer a part-time senior support worker post within the Gloucester Recovery Team. The post would be based at Pullman Place, a community base for the Recovery and other community teams to enable lots of helpful information/skills/ knowledge sharing and positive interface working. The post would mainly involve active participation and responsibility in working within the well-established Gloucester Clozapine clinic which serves patients prescribed this medication who live in the Gloucester locality and lead responsibility for a defined caseload of Recovery patients with suitable risk and complexity, mainly who access the clinic. Though mainly clinic based, due to the nature of community working the post does require vehicle access and ability to drive.
The Gloucester Recovery Team is a friendly, welcoming and dynamic team providing secondary care services to adults of working age, their families and significant others, to provide the best possible outcomes for people with complex mental health needs. The aim of the team is to work in line with the principles of Recovery and Social Inclusion. We strive to ensure that locality services represent excellent quality, (safe and a positive experience) and good value, (efficient and effective).
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has experience of working with adults of Working Age and supporting individuals with Enduring Mental Health problems.
- Under the supervision of registered practitioners assist in the provision of care and treatment to service users in a community setting, in line with the principles of social inclusion and recovery, and the 'Capabilities for Inclusive Practice'.
- To act as a Lead Professional for those service users on Standard care identified and directed by senior practitioners assessing service user's needs and developing and implementing care plans.
- To provide support, give time to allocated group of service users with more complex needs and thus promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment.
- To assist the care co-ordinator or key worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
- To facilitate access to activities to meet the needs of service users and carers within community settings.
- To participate in induction and support of new staff and students and to co-supervise junior staff.
- To attend and participate in identified training and the staff appraisal process.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
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