Community Support Worker For Physical Health London, England
Job description
The NHS Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults outlines the vision of the Long-Term Plan for place based personalised community mental health services, offering a whole person, population health approach, aligned to the new Primary Care Networks.
The post of Support Worker Health Care Assistant (HCA) will involve working in Neighbourhood teams and the new Neighbourhood Recovery Service (formerly CMHT). This will involve contributing to a developing service through a period of considerable change.
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative person to take up the post of Support Worker Health Care Assistant (HCA) at Neighbourhood teams and the new Neighbourhood Recovery Service (formerly CMHT). This is a fantastic opportunity to actively form therapeutic, meaningful relationships with patients using a range of interventions/activities to enhance their care and improve their community experience.
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An opportunity has arisen for a Community Support Worker for Physical Health, to join a vibrant integrated Community Mental Health Service in Hackney. The successful candidate will focus on the physical health and wellbeing of our service users with mental health needs and should understand the relationship between physical and mental wellbeing.
The successful applicant should have existing skills to undertake physiological assessment of our service users with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness. They will take and record ECGs, blood pressure, pulse, weight, BMI and venepuncture for required blood tests, as well as assess and advise on healthier lifestyle changes (exercise and activities, eating and drinking, smoking, alcohol and drug use) and signpost to other services.
The post holder will work alongside Community Mental Health Services under the supervision of the team manager, running physical health clinics, undertaking physical health checks and general health and wellbeing assessments. This role is vital in enabling service users to access the support they need to recover from their mental health and physical health problems, promoting recovery in order to return to everyday living.
The successful applicant will work alongside the mental health team in clinics and home visits, and will work autonomously, managing their own diary.
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.
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