Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-EK108-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Beacon, Ramsgate
- Town
- Ramsgate
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Health Support Time Recovery Worker
Band 3
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Due to retirement the Thanet Community Mental Health Team are currently looking to recruit to a Band 3 full- time Support time recovery worker, this post will be based at The Beacon Community mental health team in the coastal town of Ramsgate.
Our service focuses on promoting recovery for those people diagnosed with severe and enduring mental ill health. We provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary services and work closely with local specialist mental health teams (e.g. Early Intervention Service, Home Treatment Teams, MIMHS) tertiary service providers, primary care, Kent Police, local statutory and non-statutory agencies, service users & carers.
Main duties of the job
The main elements of community mental health support work focus on collaborative working with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management. Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community. Work closely with occupational therapists and to assist nursing staff with the effective functioning of a depot/clozapine clinic that will include well-being checks. Visiting people at their own home as required.
Being part of the Initial Intervention pathway
Participation in groups with Psychology and Occupational Therapy.
Opportunities to run groups with Occupational Therapists
What you can expect once you join the team:
Monthly supervision (clinical and managerial)
Being part of the clinic staff supporting nurses with physical health monitoring for patients receiving Depot injections or clozapine blood monitoring.
Opportunity to train in venepuncture and to preform ECG’s
MDT Risk Forum to discuss complex cases with high risks
Mandatory Training
Admin support
Working for our organisation
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 across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
IT skills
Essential criteria
- Basic understanding of IT
Desirable criteria
- Previous knowledge of RiO
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Secondary Mental Health diagnosis
Desirable criteria
- Good level of english language written and spoken
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous mental health care experience
Desirable criteria
- Caring and compassionate nature willingness to learn
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Godfrey Buwu
- Job title
- Operational Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01843855200
- Additional information
Amber Duffy - Acting Operational Team Manager on 01843 855200
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