Senior Clinical Support Worker: Sponsorship Available

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Job Summary

Would you like to work in a team that strives to keep children and young people out of inpatient units and stay within the community? Giving them intense support, encourage positive futures and giving them the opportunities to be able to manage in adult life. Then CATAT might be for you!

CATAT have been commissioned to support Children and Young People (CYP) under the age of 18 within the Norfolk and Suffolk locality. The aim of this team is to prevent CYP from having inpatient admissions wherever possible, and to support them and their family in the community. The team will serve as a gateway in and out of Tier 4 (T4) provision so CYP will be able to access T4 provision / support without the need for admission. This is a significant change in both the clinical offer and culture.

CATAT look at being preventative rather than a reactive intervention to enable admission avoidance being more successful we do this by using the Ambit & Thrive models this aids and supports stabilisation as well as the system around the child.

CATAT work alongside the core community teams as well as partner agencies to offer CYP increased/additional support. This helps with a jointly holding risk, collaborative working, and continuity of care.

Main duties of the job

What will CATAT offer.

  • Ensure that children & young people in Norfolk & Suffolk access care in the least restrictive environment possible.
  • Face to face community-based visits
  • DBT informed interventions
  • Attending MDT, LEAPs, CETRs, MALMs, Linking in with inpatient and acute wards.
  • Therapeutic interventions and approaches in relation to the expressed mental health needs of the CYP. Such as emotional regulation, DBT skills, AMBIT technics, risk management.
  • Promote joined up working and liaison with other involved services and teams across mental and physical health and children’s services.
  • Travel across Norfolk and Suffolk ( A lot of miles)

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Care Certificate – or completion of the Care Certificate within 12 weeks of start date.
  • Additional qualification/assessed skills and abilities which demonstrate an enhanced level of knowledge and training applicable to clinical area.
  • or Formal technical qualification e.g. City & Guilds, NVQ L3 H&SC, or Diploma L3 in H&SC, apprenticeship L3 in H&SC, VRQ L3 in mental health.

Desirable

  • Evidence of continued learning

Experience

Essential

  • Working with Service Users with mental health needs
  • Working within Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)

Desirable

  • Experience with under 18s

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to communicate widely in a clear manner
  • Ability to problem solve
  • Work with little supervision

Desirable

  • Managing high stress/challenging situations

Other

Essential

  • have a car and able to travel independently

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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: 13 September 2024

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