Mental Health Community Support Worker - South Warwickshire

Job summary

Community Mental Health Support Worker - Band 3 Leamington Spa

Full time, permanent role

Do you want to be part of a very supportive, forward thinking, positive and dynamic Community Mental Health Team?We have a vacancy in the South Warwickshire Community Mental Health Team (Leamington Spa) for a full time community support worker who would like to join our team that worksacross South Warwickshire. The team works with service users with various mental illnesses and we have bases at St Mary's Lodge, Leamington Spa and Stratford Healthcare, Stratford Upon Avon (you will be predominantly based at St Mary's Lodge, Leamington Spa)

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work alongside a dynamic, supportive, multi-disciplinary team to deliver recovery focussed interventions in the community. This includes a rangeof individual and group interventions. Your role will include supporting our well established clinics, working alongside the medical staff and otherteam members to ensure that our patients' needs are met. The role is wide ranging, diverse and interesting, with no two days being the same.Visits to the team or questions are encouraged to appreciate this exciting but challenging role.

The team have regular team events and developments to support a positive working atmosphere,and collaborative working.You will receive regular support and supervision. Ensuring that staff are well supported is important throughout the team. We also welcome opportunities forstaff to develop, and this will be discussed throughout your time with the team.We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who can work confidently on their own, as well as supporting the team. Good communication and problem solvingskills are essential, as well as knowledge of mental illness and the challenges this brings in daily life.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.