Community Support Worker - LDA Hospital@Home team

Would you like to work in an innovative CAMHS Tier 4 service based in the community?
Are you interested in delivering intensive community support to young people and their families, as an alternative to hospital admission?
Are you keen to work with highly motivated and passionate colleagues?
The Learning Disability and Autism Hospital at Home team, is an innovative new service being developed under the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The team will focus on young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities AND/OR a severe degree of functional impairment associated with an autism diagnosis who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and who could meet the threshold for inpatient care.
In some cases, the team will help prevent unnecessary admissions and in others, young people will be stepped down from tier 4 care through the LDA Hospital at Home team. LDA Hospital at Home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.
By supporting the care pathway, we will be offering a bespoke service where children and young people are cared for by receiving the appropriate intensity of support but in their own communities. This will:
+ Reduce the burden on families to travel long distances
+ Enhance continued engagement with community clinical teams
+ Encourage early therapeutic home leave
+ Minimise Length of Stay
+ Avoid admission, Some of your key duties will include:
+ Supporting young people and their families experiencing a wide range of mental health issues.
+ Delivering evidence based interventions in clinic and in the community.
+ Working alongside a range of practitioners.
+ Working within the agreed, individualised model providing evidence based interventions for a wide variety of presentations to support young people and their families and carers within a community setting.
+ Linking into inpatient settings to help young people transition back to the community.
+ Working alongside a wide variety of professionals.
+ Working with a wide network of people involved in the care and treatment of the young person.
+ Travelling to see people in the setting that is best for them.
+ Providing meal supports for people who are struggling at meal times.
+ Working flexibly with extended hours and some weekend working
+ Feeding back any concerns or issues related to the safety of the people you are working with.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community., In this role, we'll offer you clinical supervision, management supervision, reflective spaces, along with opportunities for training and continued professional development. You will also have the opportunity to link with several services across the Thames Valley collaborative within CAMHS.
We're committed to delivering an excellent induction to embed you into the service and ensure you have the skills and confidence to enjoy your job. We'll also provide the most helpful in house training pertinent to your role to help you develop the right skills.
Please answer the following questions in your personal statement for the role:
1. what does being a support worker in the LDA H@H team mean to you?
2. what do you think will make the most difference supporting young people with an LD or Autism diagnosis to stay in the community as an alternative to inpatient support?
+ All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
+ Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
+ Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
+ We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
+ Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
+ Excellent opportunities for career progression
+ Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
+ 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
+ NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
+ Competitive pension scheme
+ Lease car scheme
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Employee Assistance Programme
+ Mental Health First Aiders
+ Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
+ Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team