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Senior Community Support and Time Recovery Worker (STR worker)

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

London

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

9 days ago

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An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a dedicated professional to join their crisis intervention team. This role focuses on providing essential support to individuals facing mental health challenges in their own homes, promoting recovery and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. You will collaborate with a diverse multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality care, ensuring that service users receive the best possible support in a culturally rich environment. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of those in crisis, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Experience in providing mental health support in community settings.
Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and engage with service users.

Provide intensive home treatment to clients with mental health needs.
Support service users and their carers in crisis situations.

Mental Health Support

Crisis Intervention

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Relevant Degree in Mental Health or Social Work

Southwark Home Treatment Team is a crisis service that provides assessment and intensive treatment to clients in their own home as an alternative to psychiatric admission. It provides 24hr, 7 day a week, crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to patients with the aim of preventing in-patient admission where possible or if admission is required facilitating earlier discharge.

The post holder will provide community/home environment-based support to service users with mental health needs who are in crisis, to promote their recovery. It will also involve supporting the carers of service users receiving home treatment. The role will involve working with clients who have a wide range of mental health problems in a culturally diverse borough. The post holder will work within the multi-professional team in implementing, evaluating, and delivering high quality care and treatment to service users and carers.

Communications And Working Relationships

Multi-disciplinary Team - daily
Service Users and Carers - daily
Management Team - as required
Head of Profession – as required
Inpatient, Liaison and Community Teams - regularly
GP (General Practitioners) - regularly
Children and Families Services - as required
Other Agencies - As Required

South London and Maudsley (Slam) NHS Foundation Trust is part of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), which includes seven hospitals and over 150 community-based services. It is responsible for seeing two million patients each year, has 25,000 employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence, and world-class teaching to deliver advances in physical and mental healthcare (www.kingshealthpartners.org). Clinical Academic Groups are a way of organising our activities so that we are bringing together the people who can deliver the tripartite agenda – integrating clinical services with education, training and research.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ehsan Kanan Email address: Ehsan.Kanan@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: 02032283500

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