Community Support Worker

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 3 Support Worker to contribute to the development of the older adult mental healtservices.

The post is suitable for non registered support staff, with some prior experience working with older adults with mental health difficulties. You will need to support registered staff in carrying out a variety of mental health needs assessments and interventions, both with individuals, their carers and groups. You will need to be confident and competent in working with individuals in a community setting and be able to work effectively in a multi-professional context. You should have collaborative and enthusiastic styles as well as have a passion and commitment to promote service provision for older adults with mental health and dementia related needs.

The post requires that you are good communicator, and are able to adopt a flexible, adaptable and proactive approach to your work. You will be taking a role in the memory service, supporting initial assessments, post diagnostic support, individual and group interventions for people being assessed for, and diagnosed with dementia.

You will also provide initial conversations and interventions for those with various mental health difficulties (other than dementia)

The service is currently operational between the hours of 9am and 5pm.

Main duties of the job

The post requires that you are good communicator, and are able to adopt a flexible, adaptable and proactive approach to your work. You will be taking a role in the memory service, supporting initial assessments, post diagnostic support, individual and group interventions for people being assessed for, and diagnosed with dementia.

You will also provide initial conversations and interventions for those with various mental health difficulties (other than dementia)

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Ashford

Eureka Place Medical Centre

Ashford

TN25 4BY

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

Ashford

Eureka Place Medical Centre

Ashford

TN25 4BY

Employer's website

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

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