Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health - CRHT
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm)
- Job ref
- 301-LBG-24-6224092-A
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 26 church street
- Town
- Kidderminster
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Support Time Recovery worker: Reconnect /Outreach
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
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Are you a Community Support Worker looking for a genuinely rare opportunity to work with prison leavers both within Prison and in the community? If so, you're in luck. The STR worker in Reconnect will be working, following vetting, within HMP Hewell and HMP Stoke Heath and supporting clients in the community. Mainly in the Worcestershire/ Herefordshire area , but to include all West Mercia. RECONNECT seeks to improve the continuity of care of vulnerable people leaving prison by working with them before they leave and support their transition to community-based services, thereby safeguarding health gains made whilst in prison. Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our Reconnect team in West Mercia. As an experienced Support Worker from the NHS or private sector, you'll join a team that works in close partnership with HMPP services, and you'll join a Trust that puts people at the heart of what we do. Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society. You must be able to travel to various locations for your shifts as the role requires travelling over the West Mercia area. Expenses for travel are paid. |
Main duties of the job
RECONNECT seeks to improve the continuity of care of vulnerable people leaving prison by working with them before they leave and support their transition to community-based services, thereby safeguarding health gains made whilst in prison.
As a Support Time Worker you will engage with individuals up to 12 weeks before release from custody working alongside and supported by a qualified practitioner. You will continue to provide support and guidance under supervision from the qualified practitioner up to 6 months post release, using your own skills and developing knowledge to assist the individual in achieving their established goals.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by
- Supporting your career development and progression.
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity, 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 is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Please see Job Description and Person Specification for the role in the additional documents. In summary, these are the things that you will have:
or Good knowledge of Mental Health and Social Care and relevant experience
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of Mental Health OR NVQ 3 in (Mental) Health and Social Care with demonstrable evidence of numeracy and literacy skills (equivalent GCSE’s or Functional Skills) Or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with Mental Health Needs non-Dementia related
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Pete Blockley
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974044599
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