Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Carer STR Worker - Specialist Older Adults Mental Health Service

The closing date is 23 July 2025

Job summary

Are you a Support Worker with a motivation to work in mental health?

Would you thrive in a role where you work with a relatively small, but complex caseload?

If so, our Band 4 Support Time Recovery Worker role in our Specialist Older Adults' Mental Health Service (SOAMHS) may be the role for you!

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Band 4 STR worker. This post is for 37.5 hours per week to work with our enhanced duty team. This team is part of SOAMHS and provides intensive support to older people with dementia or mental ill health. The post holder will work on a rolling rota and the hours will be 9-7 which aligns to the working hours of the Intensive Support Team.

Main duties of the job

-To provide intensive support to older adults and people living with dementia.

-To reduce hospital admissions and mental health act detentions. This includes dementia and mental health inpatient admissions.

-To work in collaboration with families and carers and support them with their caring role

-To reduce carer breakdown due to strain of caring role

-To work alongside the multidisciplinary staff in the Intensive Support Team

-To provide personalized care and support to older people and their family / carers. Support with the development of contingency and crisis care planning.

-Signpost and support family / carer to access community and social activities to reduce carer loneliness and isolation. Work alongside the Soamhs Carer peer support worker to identify appropriate VSCE who can support in line with the ethos of the Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams.

-Contribute to formulation and multi-disciplinary team meetings

-There will be an expectation that the carer support worker will have capacity to spend extended periods of time with the person in crisis and their family / carers. Advise on psychosocial interventions which may reduce distress for both the patient and their family / carers.

About us

The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

Living & Working in Brighton:

Be spoilt for choice with Brighton's iconic seafront, vibrant lanes and array of shops and attractions

Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns on your doorstep

Embrace the outstanding natural beauty spots including the renowned Devils Dyke and South Downs National Park

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Key staff survey results include:

70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team

77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Date posted

10 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

354-AB-20937(R)

Job locations

Community Mental Health Centre

Brighton General Hospital, Elm Grove

Brighton

BN2 3EW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description document for full details of the role and responsibilities. For any queries about the role or to arrange informal visits, please contact Sam Dizon (Lead Occupational Therapist), s.dizon@nhs.net

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development

EXPERIENCE

Essential

Experience working with people with mental health problems

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

NVQ 3 or equivalent, combined with a commitment to undertake continuing personal development

EXPERIENCE

Essential

Experience working with people with mental health problems

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).

Additional information