Senior Support Worker

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are recruiting for a Senior Community Support Worker to join our team.

The successful candidate will support people with a learning disability and complex health, behavioural, emotional or mental health needs.

You will be responsible for assessing care needs and planning and implementing care. You will monitor and record complex behaviours and reporting back to the Community Learning Disability Team. Working with clients with complex behavioural needs and adjusting any relevant documentation.

Main duties of the job

To assist the Clinical Psychology team in the following areas:

*To provide support to service users and promote their rights, responsibilities and independence.

*To work as part of a team that provides health services to people with a learning disability.

*Support, directly and flexibly the specific needs of service users in accordance with their care plan.

*To work in partnership with the individual across boundaries of care, organisation and role, coordinated through a personalised care plan and Care Programme Approach.

*Promote opportunities that :

Engenders empowerment and well being

Acknowledges diversity

Promotes anti-discriminatory practices

Maintains confidentiality

Promotes equal opportunities and diversity

Ensures service users are treated with dignity and respect as part of ethical practice.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services. Our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust, is set to launch in July 2024.

The transformation will happen in staggered stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning in early May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent Trusts is anticipated to occur in July 2024, when the new organisation will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Date posted

20 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-IOW-4720

Job locations

Arthur Webster Clinic

35 Languard Manor Road

Shanklin

Isle of Wight

PO37 7HZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Knowledge of administrative procedures.
Highly developed Administrative and Organisational skills.
Good interpersonal skills.
NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent experience.
Must be a car driver.
NHS or Social Care Experience

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Knowledge of administrative procedures.
Highly developed Administrative and Organisational skills.
Good interpersonal skills.
NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent experience.
Must be a car driver.
NHS or Social Care Experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.