Clinical Support Worker

You will need to be enthusiastic and conscientious and do everything you can to provide the best care to our service users. We are looking for someone who displays compassion, empathy and is sensitive in their approach to people who may be distressed or have a challenging manner.

Our primary focus is on collaborative working; placing great emphasis on the assessment/recovery model by using assessment tools relating to service user recovery and the philosophy that underpins patient centred care.

For this role, your duties will include:

o Spending 1:1 time with service userso Providing direct patient care such as personal care and promoting activities of daily livingo Having a good understanding of mental health diagnoses and presentation including appropriate boundarieso Undertaking therapeutic observations of all service userso Supporting service users on a 1:1 basis who may require varying levels of supportoUndertaking physical management of violence and aggression training to manage challenging situationso Undertaking physical health observations and COVID swabbingo Taking service users on leave in the communityo Working with families and carerso Providing cross departmental working within the acute pathway as required

Do you work well with people and teams?

Samphire Ward is an award winning acute inpatient unit for adults aged 18 to 65 presenting with a range of mental health needs. We have a strong focus on providing assessment and treatment to enable service users to continue their recovery in the community with intensive support., We pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

You will be provided with a fully supported induction programme and will be offered a programme of training and development should you wish to progress.

Our staff support network includes protected time, wellbeing sessions and regular supervision.

Benefits included with this role are:

• NHS pension


• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes


• career progression


• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)


• staff physio service


• NHS discounts and many more.