Community Mental Health Support Worker

Job summary

To provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of children and families with mental health needs. To promote children's recovery and to assist them in maintaining their place in education, their social group and the community. To assist the Care Co-ordinator/ Lead Professional to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans including supporting the management of risk

Main duties of the job

Establish and maintain relationships with CYP, relative/carers and colleagues.

Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan and as directed by the Lead clinician/ care co-ordinator or other involved professional, to assist the service user to achieve their recovery goals including improving activities of daily living, social inclusion, meaningful occupation, accessing employment, mental health promotion and physical health promotion.

Responsible for contributing towards planning and undertaking delivery of planned therapeutic activities with an identified group of service users as Outlined within their care plan.

Regularly support service-users to access a range of activities and services to maintain their independence and promote their recovery.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resource.
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people