Job Summary
Lewisham Home Treatment Team is a crisis service that provides assessment and intensive treatment to clients in their own home as an alternative to psychiatric admission. It provides 24hr, 7 day a week, crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to patients with the aim of preventing in-patient admission where possible or if admission is required facilitating earlier discharge.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Community Support worker will provide community/home environment-based support to service users with mental health needs who are in crisis, to promote their recovery. It will also involve supporting the carers of service users receiving home treatment. The role will involve working with clients who have a wide range of mental health problems in a culturally diverse borough. The postholder will work within the multi-professional team in implementing, evaluating, and delivering high quality care and treatment to service users and carers.
Communications and Working Relationships:
Multi-disciplinary Team – daily
Service Users and Carers – daily
Management Team – as required
Head of Profession – as required
Inpatient, Liaison and Community Teams – regularly
GP (General Practitioners) – regularly
Children and Families Services – as required
Other agencies – as required
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 Plus short courses to Diploma Level or Equivalent experience or NVQ Level 4 in appropriate field
Desirable
- Psychology degree or equivalent experience, or evidence of continued academic development
- Training in other specific interventions e.g., Cognitive Behaviour
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience within mental health care settings
- Substantial experience dealing with acute psychiatric /crisis care
Desirable
- Previous home treatment team experience
Knowledge/Skills
Essential
- Able to work with a wide variety of professionals and agencies
- Commitment to working across service boundaries and facilitating continuity of care across community services
- Commitment to developing user-focused services
- Knowledge of mental health policy development
Desirable
- o Psychology degree or equivalent experience, or evidence of continued academic development
- Training in other specific interventions e.g., Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Schema Therapy, Dialectic Behaviour Therapy
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 12 September 2024
