Community Mental Health Worker

Band 3 - Community Mental Health Worker
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Ripon Community Mental Health team
Valley Gardens Resource Centre, Windsor House, Cornwall Road,
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2PW
Strictly full time - 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm
£14.65ph Weekdays
The Ripon Integrated community Team are looking to appoint a skilled and highly motivated Community Mental Health Support Worker.
As a Community Mental Health Support Worker, you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with people of varying ages and complex needs, including service users, their Carers and families.
The team is closely linked with the local Mental Health transformational programme and is working closely with third sector initiatives as well as developing its own presence in local GP surgeries with the introduction of the First Contact Practitioner programme.
Main responsibilities:
Provide support for clients who because of their complex health needs, cannot access or having difficulty accessing Primary and Hospital health care.
Support and enable clients to participate fully in daily life activities, observing the individual's right to choice, respect and dignity at all times.
Promote the health and well-being of clients and encourage positive attitudes and practices.
Observe and record any change in general behaviour, ability and response of the client. Maintain written records and report to Health and Social Care staff within the team.
To contribute to case reviews as necessary and to maintain up to date records of client contact and intervention, including entering data onto a health electronic patient-centred computer Rio system.
To communicate effectively with client group (verbally and non verbally), their carers and other professional organisations.
Attend and make a positive contribution to the Community Team meetings.
Furthermore, if you know anyone looking for work and you refer across, we offer a £250 referral bonus per person.
If anything is of interest, please just respond to this advert with an up to date copy of your CV or call Chloe on 01772 208963.