Community Adolescent Senior Support Worker

Job summary

Closer2Home is an intensive home treatment service for children and young people experiencing mental health difficulties who would otherwise be admitted to hospital.

Working as a team, you and your colleagues will be responsible for designing and delivering time-limited, formulation-led, person-centred programmes of intervention with young people and their families, between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.

The team will work in partnership with other community and inpatient children and young people service providers to ensure an integrated approach.

Closer2Home operates across Hampshire and Dorset, it is delivered by three NHS Trusts who each provide a Closer2Home team for their local area. The teams work in an integrated way, supporting one another to provide the service.

Each Trust has its own Closer2Home Team, but the overall service is coordinated and managed across the Provider Collaborative by a dedicated management team. To operate as one fully integrated team, staff are employed by one 'host' Trust but have honorary contractual agreements with the other Trusts to enable them to work across the whole service. We support staff to work across the Trusts and within the Closer2Home teams to provide maximum flexibility and meet the needs of the service.

Whilst this post is advertised as full-time, we are happy to talk about part-time and flexible working - all requests will be considered.

Main duties of the job

With team colleagues you will be responsible for delivering time-limited programmes of intensive home treatment to young people who would otherwise have been admitted. Young people requiring home treatment will have a range of needs commensurate with requiring inpatient services, but be offered intensive home treatment as an alternative. The team will work collaboratively with community CAMHS, children's services, colleagues involved in 'transforming care,' bed and case managers and local inpatient units; with inter-agency networking embedded in the service model.

The post holder with have specific responsibilities to undertake a range of delegated clinical duties in a community mental health setting. The post holder will contribute to the growth and maintenance of key functions of the clinical area / Team by carrying out assigned tasks, involving direct and indirect care to patients under minimal supervision and as directed by the qualified staff and / or Team Managers.

Following personal development planning and targeted training you will be in a position to work more autonomously in supporting patients. You will be supported by a career development pathway and as a result, you will develop a broad underpinning knowledge base at intermediate level and have the ability to evaluate information and communicate with a range of professionals.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Leigh House

Alresford Road

Winchester

Hampshire

SO21 1HD

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Leigh House

Alresford Road

Winchester

Hampshire

SO21 1HD

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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