Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Support Worker who is keen to support our service users by providing Dialog+ and supporting with delivering interventions.

A Support Worker is a key staff member within the multidisciplinary care team and will have continuing responsibility to assess and plan alongside the needs of the service user, liaise with our Clinical Pathway Leads, Following Dialog+, deliver group-based interventions, influence and drive change, promote health and best practice, patient safety and experience.

You will contribute to assessing clients referred to Mental Health Together or Mental Health Together Plus.  Work with individuals to facilitate access and engagement in a range of leisure and other community-based activities, working across boundaries of care within either Mental Health Together or Mental Health Together Plus.  Assist in delivering a high standard of support to service users and their carers, promoting their equality, dignity and mental well-being at all times.  Actively listen to help the service user make sense of their mental health problems using a basic CBT formulation model and enable people with mental health needs to develop coping strategies, based on a CBT and mindfulness approach.

Main duties of the job

What is Mental Health Together +?

In Kent and Medway, the community mental health transformation has created a new service model called Mental Health Together.

It is a multi-agency offer, which means bringing all the services and agencies that support people with varying mental health needs much closer together. This ensures that people get the right care, without having to navigate service boundaries and without repeatedly telling their story.

Mental Health Together will introduce new roles as part of a new, joined-up model of care that bridges the current gap between primary care (i.e., GPs) and community mental health (i.e., KMPT). It will treat people with complex mental health needs by:

• Providing someone with support in a person-centred, holistic way
• Removing barriers to access, and thresholds across services, working together
• Involving service users and carers as equal partners in their care
• Building in involvement and co-production at all levels of service design and delivery
• Delivering needs-led and personalised trauma-informed care.

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Working for our organisation

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are  rated Good overall by the CQC.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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