Senior Support Worker / Associate

The primary role of the Senior Support Worker/Associate is to support the delivery of the communication strategy. This includes supporting the social media outputs relevant for service users and partners. It will also include co-ordinating and undertaking consultations with service users and partners. The post holder will also be responsible for holding a caseload and appropriately actioning referrals., This is an exciting new role within the Sandwell School Health Nursing Team supporting the delivery of the communication strategy. Supporting the social media outputs, coordinating and undertaking consultations with service users and partners as well as having responsibility for holding a caseload and actioning referrals.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens this year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three strategic objectives:
1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives