Community Mental Health Support Worker at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Visa Sponsorship)
Are you passionate about making a difference in the community? Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is seeking a dedicated Community Mental Health Support Worker. We welcome applications from qualified candidates, including those requiring visa sponsorship.
About the Trust
MPFT is a leading healthcare provider delivering a wide range of physical and mental health, learning disability, and adult social care services across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, and Shropshire.
Our services include:
– Community healthcare for adults, children, young people, and families in various settings such as health centres, GP practices, community hospitals, and patients’ homes.
– Specialist services, including perinatal care, eating disorder support, and forensic mental health services provided regionally and nationally.
– Sexual health services and comprehensive psychological, drug, and alcohol inclusion services in the community and prisons across the UK.
Key Facts About MPFT:
– Serving a population of 1.5 million across a core geography of 2,400 square miles, including Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, Telford, and Wrekin.
– Employing over 9,500 staff members dedicated to improving lives.
Join MPFT today and contribute to transforming lives through compassionate, community-focused healthcare.
Apply now to become a part of our impactful team!
Position: Community Mental Health Support Worker
Salary: £24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Telford, UK
About the Role
Through the National Mental Health Transformation, we have prided ourselves on being able to move away from care coordination and focus our time on developing an outstanding assessment and intervention-based Community Mental Health Service within Telford and Wrekin.
The Community Mental Health Support Worker post is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a multitude of disciplines including but not limited to; Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational Therapist, Social Workers, Peer Lived Experience Support Workers and Pharmacists, to develop and provide recovery focussed interventions for those who are struggling with their mental health.
You will be given a manageable caseload focussing on Anxiety Management, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia, Relationship Building, Stabilisation, Groups, Graded Exposure and promoting integration within the community, to name a few.
Main Duties
- Working closely with the wider MDT and partner agencies to increase people’s independence, working towards an improved quality of life.
- Highlighting any concerns about risk
- Involvement in care planning with registered staff
- Involvement in reviewing the needs of service users
- Delivering interventions to service users to support their recovery
- Establish and maintain relationships with service users, relatives/carers and colleagues
- Deliver agreed therapeutic interventions, by the care plan, to assist the service user in achieving their recovery goals including; improving activities of daily living, social inclusion, and meaningful occupation, accessing employment, mental health promotion and physical health promotion.
- Undertake physical health assessments including; weight, height, blood pressure, ECG, and phlebotomy.
- Responsible for contributing towards planning and undertaking the delivery of planned therapeutic activities with an identified group of service users as an element of the care programme approach.
Qualifications
Essential
- Advanced Apprenticeship in (Mental) Health and Social Care Or NVQ 3 in (Mental) Health and Social Care with demonstrable evidence of numeracy and literacy skills (equivalent GCSEs or Functional Skills) Or equivalent experience i.e Experience that equips the person with the necessary knowledge, skill and competence as outlined below
Experience (Essential)
- Experience working with people with Mental Health Needs
Desirable
- Experience working with people with Mental Health Needs as a member of a multi-disciplinary community team
- Experience of co-facilitating group-based interventions
Knowledge (Essential)
- Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to mental health, access to mental health services, and mental health promotion
Desirable
- Skill in undertaking physical health assessment including the measurement and recording of; weight, height, blood pressure, ECG, smoking, diet and drug and alcohol use.
- Knowledge and skill in providing relevant physical health promotion advice.
Benefits
- Supporting your career development and progression.
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccination every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria are met)
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
Interested and qualified candidates should kindly CLICK HERE to learn more and apply