CAMHS Senior Community Support Worker

We are looking to appoint someone who is confident, responsive and has a passion for young-person and family-centred improvements; you will be enthusiastic and resilient and be able to respond to young people's needs flexibly. The successful candidate will pride themselves on being skilled at engaging with young people and families, work well within a team and be passionate about providing a high-quality service to young people. We are looking for a candidate who is inspired by the idea of making a difference.

• The Post holder will facilitate individual therapeutic care plans/ therapeutic interventions that have been planned with or by qualified members of the team in conjunction with their care coordinator.
• The Senior CAMHS support worker will work with young people in the community and also in the ETS day service.
• Please see job description/ person specification for further information.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Care Certificate

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or other equivalent qualification.

Experience of working as a Healthcare assistant in a mental health setting.

Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.

Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service users needs, without close supervision, and acting on own initiative, within protocols, policies and care plans.

Communications skills receiving and conveying information accurately with staff and with service users and able to keep accurate records.

Resilient: able to respond appropriately to potential difficult interpersonal situations or demands of the role including distress and agitation.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Generous pay, pensions and leave. We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance. We support a range of flexible working options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.

Career development. There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.

Car lease. Our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.

Accommodation. Our staff benefit from keyworker housing, which is available on selected sites.

NHS discounts. With discounts of up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

Essential: - Care Certificate; - NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social care of other equivalent Qualification

Desirable: - Evidence of further relevant study.

Essential: - Experience of working as healthcare assistant in a mental health setting; - Experience of working with people with mental health problems; - experience of working with professionals from other agencies and services

Desirable: - Experience of co-facilitating groups; - Experience of working with children or young people and their parent's carers

Essential: - Empathy for individuals who have experienced mental health problems and ability to cope with behaviour which may be challenging at times.; - Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs without close supervision and acting on own initiative, within protocols, policies and care plans; - Good written and verbal communication Skills; - Knowledge of different mental health disorders, signs, symptoms, risk factors and presentations.

Desirable: - Training in other specific interventions e.g CBT, DBT etc