| Posting date: | 14 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,071.00 to £25,674.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24071.00 – £25674.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 March 2025 |
| Location: | Hackney, E9 6AT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9363-25-0261 |
Health Care Assistant Job Summary
The purpose of the health care assistant job is to inspire, motivate and empower service users to achieve a better quality of life and wellbeing, and fulfil their personal ambitions for recovery.
There are eight Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams linked to the primary care networks within City & Hackney working with residents with severe mental illness and complex emotional needs. The model aims to take a population health approach to mental illness and includes close collaboration with local partner agencies, including the contribution of community connectors to the team to support residents to connect with relevant local resources and services. The Neighbourhood Teams provide personalised and collaborative interventions to adults in their localities with severe mental health problems and complex emotional needs.
The health care assistant will put service users at the centre of everything they do, and consistently deliver a high quality service that promotes and supports recovery. The post holder will provide, personal, practical and social support to residents and their carers using principles of recovery and also be aware that the impact of Social Determinants of health on the individual’s mental well being.
The post holder will work to values that include self-determination, empowerment and choice for service users.
The post holder will model hope and recovery, and work in partnership with service users in one-to-one and group settings to support them on their own journeys towards recovery
Main duties of the job
- Act as a Recovery Champion for the service, and act as a role model for service users.
- Develop and maintain trusting, supportive and empowering relationships with service users, and their families and friends
- The health care assistant will provide support to service users, facilitating both one-to-one and group sessions.
- Provide practical assistance to service users.
- The health care assistant will Motivate service users to achieve aspirational and recovery-focused outcomes.
- The health care assistant will Empower service users to care for themselves and take control of their own recovery.
- Share coping and self-help skills with service users.
- The health care assistant will Empower service users to strengthen or develop their social networks involving families and friends where appropriate.
- Empower service users to access individuals (e.g. Peer support workers) and groups in their local recovery community (e.g. Recovery College. MIND, voluntary sector).
- Participate in team meetings and meetings with other GPs and voluntary sector agencies.
Participate in supervision and appraisal
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
To apply for this job please visit findajob.dwp.gov.uk.