Community Support Workers

Band 4 Community Support Workers – 1 Post full time 37.5hrs per week

Great opportunities exist with a vacancies arising for Community Support Workers in the Wandsworth Recovery Support Team. Successful applicants will have scope to develop as professionals in the field of Mental Health, in a relevantly small multi-disciplinary team. This Team works with adults predominately aged 18-75 who have severe and enduring mental health conditions in the Borough of Richmond.

The successful applicants will assist the qualified clinicians in the team working as care coordinators, psychiatrists and psychologists to:

• Provide clearly defined recovery focused interventions, in line with patients’ care plans.
• Actively participate in the Team’s meetings including Zoning, seeking to provide high-quality services strongly focused on recovery to patients
• Positively promote and support independent living for patients in the community by maintaining extensive knowledge and links with the community resources and actively supporting patients to access them.
• Enable patients acquire daily living skills: “living ordinary lives” (e.g. shopping and cooking).
• Help patients gain access to resources and information about welfare benefits.
• Help patients access physical health services and gain skills to monitor their health needs in the community on an on-going basis.
• Help identify early signs of relapse by monitoring the patient’s progress, level of functioning and mental state, updating qualified staff involved in the care of the patient.
• Support patients develop self-management tools and coping strategies.
• Maintain adequate records as required by existing procedures; entering appropriate details in case records.

We are looking for a positive, motivated and committed individuals who understands the Trust’s values and their role in creating a vibrant work culture.

The people who work with us are at the very heart of delivering an excellent service to patients. We are committed to listening to our staff and ensuring that we invest in them, with elite training programs and career development pathways that can lead to people reaching their true potential.

To deliver this we hold regular supervisions with our staff, host coaching and development sessions.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust are committed to equal opportunity for all staff and prospective employees.

Agile and Flexible working

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.

In this role you will be able to complete 37.5hrs of work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 08:00 to 18:00, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

Benefits:
We offer a number of excellent staff benefits and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, we support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, compressed hours and Agile Working from home.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes with secondment opportunities
• Subsidised car parking - You can park at any of our sites at a reduced rate of £20/month.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Eye examinations
• Looking after your health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car lease scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Free gym membership
• Following an assessment, to provide practical and recovery focused support to service users and carers as described in their care plan.
• Working with care coordinators or lead clinicians to provide clearly defined recovery focused interventions, in line with care packages.
• To attend and actively participate in team meetings/care plan review meeting and team training as appropriate.
• To positively promote and support independent living for service users in the community by maintaining extensive knowledge and links with the community resources and actively supporting service users to access them.
• To develop a rapport with service users based upon professional support and collaboration but within appropriate boundaries.
• To provide regular and practical support to service users and carers to maintain dignity and independence.
• To enable service users to acquire daily living skills : “living ordinary lives” (e.g. shopping and cooking).
• To help service users to gain access to resources to include benefits and welfare rights.

About us

The Team is multi-disciplinary team who works in partnership with multiple other agencies: Adult Social Care, Housing Associations, Probation, Voluntary Sector.

The Team works from the Maddison Centre close to the vibrant Teddington high street and the river Thames with a range of shops, cafés and restaurants. The hub is located a short walk from Fulwell and Teddington stations.

They also see patients at Tolworth Hospital in borough of Kingston close to a number of shops and with good transport links close to the A3 and a bus ride away from Surbiton station, which has fast connections to Clapham Junction and London Waterloo.