Senior Support Worker Early Intervention in Psychosis: Sponsorship Available

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Job Summary

N-STEP has an exciting opportunity to recruit a Senior Support Worker to work as part of the Northamptonshire Service for the Treatment of Early Psychosis (N-STEP) based in the South of the county and support clinical staff and patients.

The post holder will support service users to develop, engage with and maintain relationships and activities within their local community, in line with their recovery goals. To achieve the objectives of this role, the post holder must work flexibly and creatively, holding the service user’s goals and values in mind at all times.

The post holder will undertake Physical Health Checks to include ECGs, phlebotomy and any other tests required.

Main duties of the job

The post of Support Worker will apply a strength based approach to work collaboratively with service users and their care co-ordinators to:

Support achievement of a personally acceptable quality of life

To help guide the process of recovery

To help to restore what has been lost through illness

To enable access to community resources

To provide an assessment/intervention to ensure individuals are appropriately supported and facilitate links with specialist services as required.

To be actively involved with service users, carers and care coordinators in the planning and delivery of services via the care programme approach to facilitate the individual’s journey of recovery.

To support in partnership with clinical staff and service users in the planning and implementation of care.

Bridge individuals to community based activities, to include facilitating and supporting group work when required.

Help the service user gain access to resources to include benefits and welfare rights.

Provide information on health promotion.

Help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the service user’s progress, level of functioning and mental state and alert the appropriate staff involved in the service user’s care.

Provide support to service users and carers on the management of their medication including side effects.

Provide support with the wider team to service users in crisis.

Person Specification

Education and Training

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 in a relevant discipline.

Desirable

  • NVQ Level 3 Certificate in Mental Health or commitment to work towards achieving it.
  • Evidence of other training update and development in social/mental healthcare

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with people with mental health needs
  • Providing support to individuals and carers
  • Support people with activities of daily living, promoting self-care and social functioning
  • Experience of working under pressure and with individuals who are in crisis
  • Knowledge of mental health conditions
  • Experience of working with individuals with complex mental health needs

Desirable

  • Experience of undertaking Physical Health Checks to include ECGs, phlebotomy and any other tests required.
  • Experience of working with people with first episode psychosis

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: 23 February 2026

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