Home Treatment Team Support Worker

Stockport Home Treatment Team (SHTT) is 7 day a week service working with males and females of adult working age (16-65) with mental health conditions in an acute stage of their illness. SHTT works as an alternative to a hospital admission providing intensive support to patients within the community and prevent hospital admissions. We also support patients who are appropriate for an early discharge from an acute inpatient setting.

We work alongside patients and their regular care providers (CMHT, EIT etc) for anything from first assessment up to four weeks if clinically indicated.

SHTT is a multi-disciplinary team of registered mental health nurses, support workers, social workers, occupational therapist, pharmacist and consultant.

The post holder will work as part of the Stockport Home Treatment Team, to undertake allocated duties within the team, you will work alongside mental health practitioners, supporting patients, families and carers in their own home and also supporting patients who are on the supported discharge pathway from the wards; ensuring the highest possible standard of care in accordance with the policies and procedures of Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.

We currently work 7 days a week, 8am to 9pm, including weekends and bank holidays, we work closely with our out of hours offer STEM service.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

• To provide support to an allocated group of service users, promote their recovery and help to maintain them in their community environment.
• To assist qualified practitioners in assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating individual care plans.
• To ensure that service users engage effectively with the agreed Care Plan and access appropriate services.
• Positively promote independent living of service users within the community
• Provide support and interventions to service users in their own homes and the wider community based upon their assessed needs.
• Assist service users to make full use of community resources.
• Support service users to become involved in social activities in line with their assessed needs and planned care.
• Support service users to establish and maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
• Provide regular and practical support for service users and their carers’ in managing dignity and independence.
• Provide support with activities of daily living.
• Help service users gain access to resources required to meet their needs.
• Provide information on health promotion and support physical health management.
• Help to identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the service users progress, level of functioning and mental state and to alert the appropriate staff involved in the service users care.
• Report regularly to other members of the multidisciplinary team
• To promote independence and choice.
• To maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures, entering appropriate details on the service users case notes as necessary.
• To attend and actively participate in training sessions, team/care planning review meetings and supervision as appropriate.
• To contribute to the ongoing development of the service
• To ensure that electronic care records are efficiently maintained.
• To contribute to audits as required, providing relevant data as required in line with performance monitoring targets.
• To deal appropriately with clinical incidents and complaints from patients, relatives and members of the public, via line manager, in accordance with Trust policy.
• To undertake such other duties as may be determined from time to time within the general scope of the post.
• To assist qualified practitioners in undertaking physical health checks and monitoring in line with the new community clozapine titration pathway.

This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process.