Bee U CRHTT Support Worker

Job overview

To provide support, and spend therapeutic time with an allocated           group of service users with mental health needs.

To promote service-users recovery and to assist them to maintain their place in the community or manage transitions between services.

To assist the Shift Co-ordinator/ Lead Professional to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans.

Main duties of the job

• Communicates with service-users and carers, all members of the multi-disciplinary team and staff in external agencies using a variety of methods including Information Technology.
• Regularly reports and effectively communicates service-users health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to care-co-ordinators and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Relates appropriately with service-users, carers, colleagues and others – at all times maintaining professional boundaries.
• At all times ensures that own actions, support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of  individuals.
• Identifies, minimizes and reports risks of danger, harm and abuse to senior colleagues.
• At all times minimizes risks to self by undertaking safe working practices whilst regularly working under remote supervision in community settings.
• At all times works within agreed and established Trust policy and operational procedures.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post-holder is responsible for the provision of planned recovery focused care working with a defined caseload.
• The post-holder is responsible for working collaboratively with other Trust services to provide seamless care for service-users on defined care-pathways

The post-holder is responsible for working in partnership with agencies external to the Trust supporting service-users access to services in the statutory, independent and non-statutory sector.