Job Summary
Are you an experienced Community Mental Health Support Worker looking for a new opportunity to become a Rapid Responder and work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you’re in luck.
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our new Adult ADHD/ASC Service. The role will be based in South East Staffordshire, covering Lichfield, Tamworth and Burton on Trent.
MPFT are pleased to announce we will be providing assessments for ADHD and Autism for adults in South Staffordshire. We will be having two parts to the service, assessment and post diagnosis support. We will have a multi-disciplinary team including Consultant Psychiatrist nurses, occupational therapists, peer support workers and more. We strive to meet the needs of our locality providing a gold standard service.
Early applications are also advised as we reserve the right to close the advert early dependent on the volume of applications received.
Main duties of the job
- Identify risks through use of appropriate assessments, act immediately if the situation requires, and ensure all risks are reported to senior clinicians/line managers.
- Implement and support detailed care plans, outcome measures documentation, risk assessments and treatment programmes (including intervention Support Plans, mental health and multi-disciplinary care plans)
- Review the ‘Duty Inbox’ for the team and signpost service users accordingly
- Offer interventions in line with ‘Overcoming Challenging Times Plan’o You will work without direct supervision to undertake assessments and deliver interventions relating to individual needs.
- Support and assess patients on point of referral under supervision.
- Working collaboratively with other Trust services to provide seamless care for service users in the Integrated Mental Health Teams
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation degree in relevant subject or Diploma/NVQ 3 in Health and Social Care OR accredited prior learning with competency based evidence supplemented by short courses.
Desirable
- Training in working with adults / older adults with complex mental health needs and/or challenging behaviour, and/or other behavioural work
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with adults / older adults with Mental Health Needs as a member of a multi-disciplinary community team Experience of working within a multi-agency framework
- Experience of formulating a service users difficulties and developing a care plan
- Experience of employing evidenced based interventions.
- Experience of working with families and carers
- Able to work independently, without direct supervision
- Experience of supporting other workers and role modelling recommended approaches / interventions in practice.
Desirable
- Previous work with people with complex and high risk presentations
- Experience of supporting service users in a home based/ community setting
- Experience of working with ADHD/ASC
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 20 November 2024
