Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

Southern Health NHS is one of the largest mental health trusts in England, and we are constantly expanding our teams!

Right now, our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) at Avalon House in Winchester is looking for a Health Care Support Worker to join them!

The Winchester CMHT is a lively, dynamic and busy multi-disciplinary team which provides care coordination and recovery focused care for individuals with complex and challenging mental health needs.

This is an opportunity to demonstrate your skills as a Health care Support Worker, who is focused on continually improving outcomes for patients.

You will play an important role in delivering excellent care for our service users, and working as part of the team to provide the right support and assistance to our service users in their recovery.

*You will support the planning and delivery of interventions in line with an agreed care plan.

*Delivering higher level intensity community interventions as part of the integrated Shared Care model

*Working in a manner which is helpful to the service user and the referrer, based on principles of recovery, personalisation and choice.

*You will have previous experience in working with people with mental health needs, and will be able to evidence effective team working.

*You would be expected to complete phlebotomy training to take bloods for our clozapine clinic.

*Ability to drive and use of a car for work purpose is essential in this role.

Main duties of the job

To provide physical and psychological care to service users in accordance with the specified plan of clinical care and in line with the recovery model to service users who live in any part of the catchment area.

To carry out duties as designated by the team leader.

To provide support to the person responsible for the clinical care of the service user.

To accurately record service user information.

To provide support to relatives/carers.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avalon House

Chesil Street

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 0HU

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avalon House

Chesil Street

Winchester

Hampshire

SO23 0HU

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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