Community Support Worker

Job summary

We're looking for a enthusiastic, passionate and motivated Community Support Worker to join our friendly and forward-thinking Community Adults Mental Health Service in Sleaford.

The successful post holder will be an integral part of the service and responsible for providing, safe personalised care and support to people living in the community with severe and enduring mental health needs. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, under the indirect supervision of registered clinicians you will form compassionate, recovery-focused, therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers, supporting them to manage their mental health needs in a community setting. A key part of the role will be empowering service users to self-manage aspects of their ongoing treatment, such as medication, diet and lifestyle, physical health and general wellbeing.

Due to the UKVI immigration changes we are no longer able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Main duties of the job

Observe and monitor mental state and levels of functioning, reporting observations to qualified mental health staff.

Provide social and emotional support to patients and carers within the context of trusting and therapeutic relationships.

Enable the patient to develop and maintain their social skills, encourage social contacts and promote social networks if/when appropriate.

Assist in the process of assessment and meeting care needs of patients and their carers in the community.

Participate in individual therapies in patients homes and in the community, contributing to the jointly agreed care plan, working under the supervision of qualified staff.

Liaise with other agencies in both statutory and voluntary sectors

Be responsible for organising own daily work schedule to meet the clinical needs of the service.

Maintain clinical records as per trust policy

Participate in the process of management supervision and appraisal.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.