CAMHS Senior Community Support WorkerNHS

Job summary

The CAMHS Enhanced Treatment Service (ETS) team is an innovative and friendly team that is passionate about improving care for the young people that we work with. We are looking for a Band 4 community CAMHS Support Worker. This varied role offers excellent opportunities to gain experience and skills in a variety of different settings.

About the team:

ETS is for young people aged 12-18 who are presenting with a serious mental illness. We offer an alternative pathway for young people who have been admitted for inpatient treatment, as well as offering a supported discharge package for young people leaving hospital.

We aim to reduce A&E presentations and hospital admissions and offer the least restrictive interventions to provide consistent access to rapid, effective interventions, support and recovery - including crisis services. This includes better use of resources and investing to develop more local, community-based services and support. The service has both an outreach, and community day service model.

Vacancy may close early once capacity has been met

Main duties of the job

We are looking to appoint someone who is confident, responsive and has a passion for young-person and family-centred improvements; you will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to young people's needs flexibly. The successful candidate will pride themselves on being skilled at engaging with young people and families, work well within a team and be passionate about providing a high-quality service to young people. We are looking for a candidate who is inspired by the idea of making a difference.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• The Post holder will facilitate individual therapeutic care plans/ therapeutic interventions that have been planned with or by qualified members of the team in conjunction with their care coordinator.
• The Senior CAMHS support worker will work with young people in the community and also in the ETS day service.
• Please see job description/ person specification for further information.

Job description

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Care Certificate

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or other equivalent qualification.

Experience of working as a Healthcare assistant in a mental health setting.

Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.

Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service users needs, without close supervision, and acting on own initiative, within protocols, policies and care plans.

Communications skills receiving and conveying information accurately with staff and with service users and able to keep accurate records.

Resilient: able to respond appropriately to potential difficult interpersonal situations or demands of the role including distress and agitation.

About us

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave. We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance. We support a range of flexible working options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.

Career development. There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.

Car lease. Our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.

Accommodation. Our staff benefit from keyworker housing, which is available on selected sites.

NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants