Community Mental Health Support Worker

• Establish and maintain relationships with service users, relative/carers and colleagues
• Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, in accordance with the care plan, to assist the service user to achieve their recovery goals including; improving activities of daily living, social inclusion, and meaningful occupation, accessing employment, mental health promotion and physical health promotion.
• Undertake physical health assessments including; weight, height, blood pressure, ECG, phlebotomy.
• Responsible for contributing towards planning and undertaking delivery of planned therapeutic activities with an identified group of service users as an element of the care programme approach.
• Regularly support service-users to access a range of activities and services to maintain their independence and promote their recovery.
• At all times ensure that own actions support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals and promote independence.
• Regularly reports and effectively communicates service users health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to care coordinators and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Have an awareness of community resources appropriate for the service user to access.
• Involvement in the review of risk, communicating any changes to the key workers.
• Work with other Trust services to promote seamless service user focused care, admission, transfer and discharge on identified care pathways.

Essential

• NVQ 3 in (Mental) Health and Social Care with demonstrable evidence of numeracy and literacy skills (equivalent GCSE's or Functional Skills)
• Experience that equips the person with the necessary knowledge, skill and competence as outlined below