Health and Social Care Assistant London, England
Job description
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of individuals experiencing mental health needs?
Join our team at CARMHS (Community and Recovery Mental Health Services) as a Health and Social Care Assistant covering either Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham or Hounslow.
Your role will involve co-designing and delivering collaborative care plans with experienced staff, supporting individuals on their journey to recovery. You'll play a crucial role in encouraging people to engage with their local communities, providing practical and emotional support.
Additionally, you'll participate in assessments, safety planning, and multi-agency discussions, ensuring seamless care and support for those in need.
Your dedication to promoting wellbeing and facilitating access to various services will empower individuals to reach their potential and continue living meaningful lives.
Become part of our mission to deliver holistic and compassionate care to those in our community facing mental health challenges.
Apply now and make a difference!
The Health and Social Care Assistant will work closely with the team to co design and deliver collaborative care plans with the individuals we support.
This may often include encouraging the individuals ’s well-being through a planned program of personal, practical and emotional support and participation in activities of daily living, engagement in their local communities and support with understanding available treatment.
Supporting individuals to reach their potential and continue to live meaningful lives.
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Main responsibilities
- To support to engage individuals with their local communities and to support people with their recovery.
- To carry out referral screening with guidance from a qualified staff member.
- To participate in the assessment of referred individuals.
- To keep regular records and contribute to multi-agency / MDT discussions.
- To support and facilitate transfers to ensure seamless care and follow up where indicated.
- Support people to maximise benefit entitlement and consider any additional support e.g. linking in with food banks, support from charitable organisations, support to set up new tenancies, etc.
- To support individuals to engage with the Wellbeing and Recovery College.
- To liaise closely and work with the individual and multi-disciplinary team in the planning, implementation and review of collaborative care plans.
- To be part of ongoing safety planning under supervision from an experienced member of staff focusing on both physical and mental health.
- To participate in other relevant meetings with individuals
- To bring to the attention of the team and if necessary the line manager any issues of concern in relation to individual’s welfare, to include safeguarding, threat of homelessness and other vulnerabilities.
