Community Support Worker
The closing date is 10 September 2025
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Support Worker to join our team at Britton House, Medway. This comes at a time of transformation in mental health services under the community mental health framework.
Our main focus is to collaboratively work with service users to promote engagement and to facilitate an optimum level of independence and self-management. Our expectation is that you will endeavour to establish therapeutic relationships within which to address recovery goals in order to help service users to gain access to a range of resources and services to facilitate involvement and connection with the local community.
Main duties of the job
Work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisation and role.
Provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment, helping them to build their own support network.
Support service users to identify their needs and to assist Clinicians to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
Have the individual service user's needs at the fore at all times, working to the recovery model to support the service user to work towards their identified goals.
Use agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work.
About us
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Details
Date posted
27 August 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
380-NK221
Job locations
Britton House, Gillingham
High Street
Gillingham
ME7 1AL
Employer details
Employer name
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Address
Britton House, Gillingham
High Street
Gillingham
ME7 1AL
Employer's website
https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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