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 provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
  
  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