Community Support Worker CCETT South Boston, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 3 Community Support Worker to join our award winning ongoing developing CCETTS team (CAMHS Crisis and Enhanced Treatment Team). We can offer fulltime and Part time posts and although the post will be based in the South of the County we can be flexible and negotiate on base and travel where necessary.
The team are based in the South of the County in Boston and work closely with their colleagues in the North team over in Lincoln. The service covers areas across Lincolnshire therefore you must have the ability to travel around the county without the use of public transport.
We are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated individuals to join our well established team. We have several disciplines of practitioners within the service and Multi Disciplinary team who all work closely together to keep children and young people at home and out of hospital. Part of your role would be providing crisis and enhanced home treatment for young people struggling with acute deteriorating mental health difficulties, including self harm, suicidal ideation, eating disorders/ disordered eating and psychosis. Our team looks at providing an alternative to a Tier 4 admission, a hospital at home type model and supports those being discharged from an acute inpatient admission following an episode of care.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
The role will include 1:1 therapeutic intervention; utilising DBT and CBT skills, providing Emotional First Aid group work and psycho-education with parents and carers. WE offer a full induction package for all new starters and have training opportunities throughout the year to build on skills and interventions.
Within the team we utilise animal assisted therapy (AAT) and have established therapy dogs within both teams.
The successful candidate will be expected to work in a shift pattern on a rota bases covering 7 days a week 08:45-19.00 hours
We are an innovative service and pride ourselves in providing training to enhance the care and support we can provide. WE welcome clinicians with creative ideas to help continue to develop the service.
Crisis work is often fast paced and can be challenging however we have a very supportive team environment. We love cakes and snacks, have a good sense of humour and good baking skills would be a desirable requirement for this post.
For further enquiries please contact Marijke de Groot- team coordinator on 01205 354292 or on Teams if you work within LPFT already.
