Perinatal Support Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

Undertake person centred / essential lifestyle planning with individuals, enabling people to be involved and have a say in the development of their own care.

To provide practical and emotional support to families/carers of identified service users and their families.

To provide appropriate information/education to service users, families and carers in offer to promote coping skills to maintain an appropriate level of care to children.

To support service users to engage effectively with the agreed care plan and access appropriate services provided on a regular and consistent basis.

To attend and provide information to client review meetings/CPA for service users you are working with.

To liaise and work collaboratively with other professionals in the evaluation of intervention plans, and demonstrate change through the use of outcomemeasurement tools e.g. HONOS, CORE 10 etc. including work with partneragencies to facilitate inclusion and improve health and social care outcomes for service users.

Work under the direction of senior practitioners to facilitate recovery. To take responsibility for supporting an agreed caseload of people within recovery.

Undertake/contribute to the comprehensive assessment of service users, including ongoing evaluation of care, working with them to plan recovery outcomes.

Participate in the recovery plan, clinical monitoring and support of community patients. As directed by the senior practitioner and within agreed service frameworks, including accompanying service users to various venues identified in the recovery plan.

Review and evaluate recovery plans as directed and support clients in achieving identified goals, utilising therapeutic interventions as appropriate to skill level and competence.

Provide practical and emotional support to help mums prepare for their new babys arrival

Supporting partners, siblings and wider family members prior to babys arrival.

Provide education and support to help enhance the attachment and bonding process through pregnancy using current research.

Provide best practice advice and model behaviour in relation to talking, playing and interacting with babies.

Offer Video Interaction Guidance, where qualified or in training under appropriate supervision.

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

To participate in ongoing risk assessments, identifying and escalating any concerns.

Report any adverse effects of prescribed medication to the senior practitioner to ensure appropriate review.

Positively promote independent living of service users within their community.

Developing a rapport but within appropriate and transparent boundaries.

Provide regular and practical support to service users and their carers in developing and managing dignity and independence.

Report regularly to care co-ordinators as appropriate key worker.

To maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service users case notes as necessary.

To ensure the service user understands and has a clear pathway of care across sector/agency boundaries with key contact points/named individuals.

Monitor and review client progress by means of regular reviews and close liaison with the client, their Care-Coordinator and other members of the Perinatal Team.

All employees have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people in all relevant areas of their work. This will include timely attendance at relevant training events, self-directed updates, attendance at Safeguarding supervision and compliance with the Safeguarding Procedures.

Any other duties appropriate to role as indicated by the service manager, line manager or lead medical officer.

For full list of duties and responsibilities please attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Minimum of NVQ Level 3 in a subject relevant to Health, Social Care and/or child development
• Demonstrate commitment to ongoing training and development.
• Good standard of general education including English and Maths to GCSE grade C or above or equivalent.

Knowledge/ Experience

Essential

• Clinical skills and competency relevant to the role.
• Ability to support clients in crisis.
• Knowledge and understanding of child development
• Record keeping & report writing skills, including IT skills to manage electronic patient notes
• Understanding of issues relating to safeguarding of vulnerable groups.
• Awareness of clinical governance.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of confidentiality and diversity issues.
• Able to work autonomously and as part of a team.
• Experience of person centred planning and person centred approaches to care
• Experience in a health or social care setting with service users and/or families with complex needs'
• To demonstrate how to implement clinical care/ care packages.
• Post qualification experience of working with children, young people and their families
• Experience of working with challenging groups /individuals.
• Recent experience of working with parents/families/children.
• Experience of contributing to appropriate risk management/child protection plans.

Values

Essential

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential

• Ability to use tools relevant to the service e.g. clinical outcomes tools.
• Experience in making judgements involving facts or situations, some requiring analysis
• Contribute to appropriate risk management/child protection plans.
• Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.
• Ability to demonstrate non-judgemental / professional attitude.
• Empathy, tact and judgement to enable and support ongoing positive relationships with Clients, their families or Carers.
• Demonstrates motivation, reliability and commitment to team working and the development of others.
• Excellent organisation skills and time management.
• Flexible, and responsive to change.
• Confident and Professional
• Demonstrates an ability to value the opinions of others.
• Strong interpersonal, motivational, communication and organisational skills, qualities and behaviours.
• Flexibility to respond to urgent client need or the needs of the Service.
• Willingness to undergo education and training for both service and professional development needs.
• Positive role model
• To demonstrate how to provide and receive routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills; barriers to understanding.
• Travel is integral to this post therefore a full driving license and means of transport is essential.
• Able to work flexible hours as required.
• Evidence of ongoing personal development.
• Willingness to undertake further training

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hollins Park Hospital

Hollins Lane

Warrington

WA2 8WA

Employer's website

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