Community Vocational Support Worker: Sponsorship Available

Support Worker Job Summary

A fantastic opportunity for a Vocational Support Worker to join our occupational therapy and vocational team within the North London Forensic Service (NLFS) providing medium and low secure in-patient and forensic outreach services for those suffering from mental illness and/or learning disabilities. The team provides comprehensive input across admission, rehabilitation, pre-discharge and outreach services.

Main duties of the job

The support worker will be required to support individuals in accessing employment and educational opportunities, working closely with third sector organisations and multidisciplinary teams. You will work collaboratively with the employment, training and education team implementing and supporting vocational pathways between inpatient and community services, and support service users to access work placement schemes with aim of developing skills and confidence enabling community integration and rehabilitation.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.