Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Worker to join the Wiltshire Care Home Liaison Team in the Salisbury area. The position is offering full time hours although alternatives would be considered. The team cover 9-5 hours Monday to Friday. The service is closed on Bank Holidays.
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual, who has experience of working with service users and their families in mental health settings and who has experience or interest in dementia and older people’s mental health.
The Wiltshire Care Home Liaison Service provides high quality clinical assessments and interventions to people living in a care home who have a functional mental health difficulty or who have a diagnosis of dementia. Working with supervision of a registered nurse, the support worker develops therapeutic relationships with service users and care home staff to meet the complex needs of clients.
Main duties of the job
- Promote and champion the rights, values, responsibilities and diversity of people, and act in an open and compassionate way within clear professional boundaries.
- Promote and maintain effective communication with people in order to build and sustain positive working relationships with individuals, families and carers, team members and other agencies. This may include accessing translation and interpreting services.
- Contribute to the planning, implementation and review of care packages, including implementing specific parts of an individual care plan.
- Working autonomously within relevant practice boundaries, under indirect, but not ‘direct’, supervision of registered clinicians.
- Conduct comprehensive assessments of mental health needs and clinical risks.
- Maintain accurate, confidential records of patient activity, contributing to a range of written documents as appropriate.
- Enable people to understand and manage their mental health needs in line with their care plan and relapse prevention strategies.
- Support individuals in developing and maintaining their identity and personal relationships, including potentially difficult relationships.
- Support people to engage with their own health care, in accordance with their care plan.
- Act to protect individuals from abuse and harm in line with local and National policies and procedures.
- Work proactively with carers and families, identifying carers’ needs and signposting to appropriate services or agencies.
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
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