Community Support Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Support Worker to work within the Spalding community mental health team.
The team provides comprehensive bio-psychosocial support to those of working age who are experiencing severe and mental illness. It forms part of the Spalding & South Lincolnshire Locality mental health provision. It is actively enaged in the community mental health transformation agenda, working closely with other health, social care and other community based providers. The team is actively working to develop the range of effetive and evidence based social and psychologically informed interventions availible within the locality and to embed the open dialogue approach and Maastricht principals within our practice. The successful candidates values and enthusiasm will be in keeping with this transformation.
The post holder will work as a key member of the team delivering care and evidence based interventions to a defined group of service users and their social networks under the supervision of registered staff., To provide a high standard of collaborative, trauma informed, strengths based intervention, focussing on the goals and aspirations of the individual and their social network.
To support individuals in achieving recovery focussed goals utilising developed using Iroc, the HOPE toolkit and other appropriate measures to guide the teams interventions.
To embody the values of collaborative, recovery focussed and trauma informed care in their work and behaviour.
To empower individuals and their social networks, untilising their strengths in order to achieve their recovery.
To work collaboratively with partner agencies across the wider health and social care locality provision in order to meet the needs of social networks.
To actively engage in clinical supervision & reflective practice professional development.
To participate in appropriate continuing professional development.
To contribute to the maintenance of a psychologically safe environment in which the diverse views and experience of all valued and utilised., To liaise with the Registered staff, and carry out assigned duties as a member of the multi- disciplinary mental health team.
To be prepared to work on own initiative as necessary and report to Registered staff.
To collaboratively work with individuals and their social networks to achieve focussed goals established using Iroc, the HOPE toolkit and other appropriate measures to guide the teams interventions.
To ensure that necessary support is provided in order to ensure that people's physical, social and emotional needs are met appropriately.
To provide support to people in maintaining social inclusion.
Demonstrate an awareness of service user and carer perspectives on the provision of treatment and continuing care.
Comply with and carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, appropriate Codes of Conduct, the Mental Health Act (1983) and other relevant national and local guidance commenting on policies, procedures and developments as necessary.
To ensure that medicines are managed in a safe manner and that their effects and side efects are monitored and appropriately managed.

Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.