Employer: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Position: Clinical Support Worker
Salary: Band 3 £24,625 to £25,674 a year pa
Job Type: Full-time
Benefit: UK visa sponsorship available
Work location:Sussex
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION
Langley Green Hospital in Crawley are looking for a
Band 3 Inpatient Activities Clinical Support Worker to join the Multi-disciplinary team on the ward.
The Band 3 Inpatient Activities Clinical Support Worker role is full time 37.5 hours and evening and weekend working essential.
Langley Green is a acute inpatient hospital for working age and older adults with functional mental health and physical health needs.
Main duties
The Band 3 Inpatient Activities Clinical Support Worker role includes facilitation of recreational, social and educational groups and individual activities for the service users on the ward.
This role involves planning, promoting, delivering and evaluating activities in accordance with service users’ needs.
You would be part of a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team with opportunities to work in close collaboration with colleagues including: Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Clinical Support Worker, Nurses, Nursing Assistants, Doctors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Employment Specialist and Chaplin. You will also work with our community practitioners to support service users in their recovery.
Your skills will be developed through Clinical Supervision and Training opportunities.
To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID.
About us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has teaching status and is developing into one of the country’s leading teaching mental health trusts.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working. If it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
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Responsibilities
To work with other members of the multidisciplinary team to facilitate recreational, social and educational group and individual activities to the service users on the ward/unit. To lead, plan, promote, deliver and evaluate delegated activities in accordance with the service users needs to meet goals identified in the individuals positive wellness plan.
Please see detailed job description and main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical/life skills
Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
Health care or relevant NVQ level 3 or equivalent skills
Knowledge
Experience of working with people with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacity
Experience of working with people with mental health difficulties
Experience running groups/activities
Experience working as part of a team
Experience of being supervised
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Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependents (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Langley Green Hospital
Martyrs Avenue
Crawley
RH11 7EJ
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Application Process
If you’re interested in this role, check out more information on the Official website and apply now