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Job overview

We are looking for a Community Support Worker to join our supportive, friendly and professional Crisis Resolution home treatment team based in Telford. 

Working as part of the team the post-holder will provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of people with acute mental health needs. This is to promote the persons recovery and to assist them to maintain their place in the community and manage transitions between services. The post holder will also assist the Shift Co-ordinator/ Lead Professional to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans. The role will require people to be able to drive; work days, nights and weekends on a rota basis.

Our team also provides a gate keeping service to the in-patient wards at Redwoods in Shrewsbury. To facilitate early discharge and provide an effective and viable alternative to hospital admission for clients in crisis by developing an individualised approach to the practical and functional needs of the service user.

MPFT will offer a welcome bonus of 10% of first year salary- at 50% on commencement of employment and 50% following 12 months employment.

Please note this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role.

Main duties of the job

You will provide active support in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of service user care, responding quickly to those referred with urgent and high-risk mental health needs and provide collaborative, effective, evidence-based interventions at the right time with the right person.

Working in a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with internal and external agencies, you will:

• Assist in providing  specialist assessment and care planning in conjunction with service users and carers
• Help to carry out existing treatment plans and undertake home treatment
• To promote service-users recovery and to assist them to maintain their place in the community or manage transitions between services. 

Working for our organisation

As well as all the usual excellent benefits the NHS offer, including generous pension and holiday entitlement we can also offer:

• 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.