Homeless Health Care Support Worker

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Bedford Place, City of Southampton

Homeless Health Care Support Worker

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Bedford Place, City of Southampton

  • Part time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 8 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 6ba9e6576d614c1aa414e61841761835

Full Job Description

  • To help service users manage their symptoms, under the direction of the Care Coordinator to deliver evidence based interventions.
  • To support in outreach interventions in line with the Rough Sleepers Initiative.
  • To accurately record all contacts with service users in the Rio electronic record in line with the organisational record keeping policy.
  • To participate fully in caseload supervision and management, to ensure that care plans are matched to need and service users are able to flow through pathways of care.

    Are you driven to tackling mental health-inequalities in our diverse multi-cultural homeless population in Southampton?
  • If you're someone who is passionate about providing high-quality holistic care and advocating for marginalised societal groups, then don't miss your opportunity to apply for this unique and varied role within our Homeless Health Care Team. We welcome applications from people who have NVQ Level 2 in health/ social care or relevant experience in mental health, housing or substance misuse settings. You will have creative and dynamic ways to engage individuals who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness and have a range of mental health issues. You will be an integral part of the team to support practitioners in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans and outcome measures for adults with complex biopsychosocial problems. Strengths-based and recovery-focussed to support services users to meet their mental health needs. You will have excellent communication skills to enable you to foster relationships and engage with a variety of individuals from a diverse range of cultural-backgrounds and partner agencies including CGL, Probation and Southampton City Council local authority. You will contribute to weekly multidisciplinary team meetings and work in partnership with colleagues to evaluate care plans. You will be a positive role-model, reflecting a commitment to maintaining a culture of learning from incidents and valuing two-way feedback.

    Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve. Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time. Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.