Community Support Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Community Support Worker with the LYPFT Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service. We are a new team within LYPFT, and you will be part of shaping and developing this much needed new service. What is most valuable to us is your experience. It is important to us that you have significant experience working in the community with people who struggle to access mainstream services. Our client group are rough sleeping or in precarious living arrangements, and like other vulnerable groups they often face difficulties and barriers in accessing and engaging with NHS and other support services. We are a mental health specialist team; you will need to have a good understanding of the impact of mental health difficulties on service users and how mental health services operate. In your role you will receive supervision, training and support and you will be working collaboratively with Street Support Teams and other services across the city of Leeds, providing psychosocial support to those who need it most. Rough sleeping and homeless services in Leeds are unique and comprehensive and this team has a real opportunity to make a huge difference to those that need support the most. Main duties of the job We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued., The successful candidate will work alongside our Trauma Informed Mental Health Pracititoner in the Rough Sleepers Mental Health Service, and its partner organisations, supporting those in the community who are rough sleeping or at most risk of rough sleeping. You will be : o Providing direct support to service users sleeping rough in the community in the form of outreach support, this means extensive travel across the post codes of Leeds to meet the needs of the service o Joining our partner service, CGL for regular outreach work travelling across the city of Leeds and its surrounding areas to meet the mental health needs of service users o Spending time at St Annes Resource Centre on York Steet, Leeds, to provide mental health support for service users and staff at the Help Hub o Attending team meetings each week with the Rough Sleepers Mental Health Team and meetings with the Street Support Teams o Demonstrating and role modelling person centred approaches to service users and staff o Contributing to the triaging, assessment, planning and evaluation of support for individuals accessing our service o Working closely with our partners across the city to work in an integrated way to provide a psychologically informed approach in the work we do o Completing case notes and documentation effectively and within a timely manner on our record keeping systems o Keeping up to date with interventions and relevant information regarding mental health in homelessness

o Excellent verbal and nonverbal communication skills to work with both our service user group and support staff o The capacity to embrace change and be proactive o Experience of working with mental health, complex needs and vulnerabilities in a community / outreach setting providing psychosocial interventions o Experience of managing a caseload o Excellent self-motivation and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision whilst accessing appropriate support when required o Experience of inter-agency and multi-disciplinary working o Good organisational skills including time management and planning workload o Recognition and escalation of safeguarding concerns contributing to risk management o Flexibility and a responsive attitude to service need including willingness to work across city at varying times to service need. The working days are Monday to Friday. Flexibility is required to meet service and service user need. However, there may be a requirement for some early morning or evening hours to meet service demands. This is a full time, permanent role. The ability to travel across the city of Leeds and its surrounding areas in a timely manner is essential., Qualification in Mental Health / Health and Social Care NVQ Level 4 OR Equivalent experience (Evidence of 2 year minimum) of working with vulnerable people in a community setting such as temporary accommodation, emergency accommodation, street-based lifestyles Experience Essential

• Experience of working with complex needs and vulnerabilities in a community / outreach setting providing psychosocial interventions
• Experience of managing a caseload
  
  The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds.
  
  We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers. We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.