Community Clinical Support Worker - Dementia Intensive Support Team - West Suffolk
An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the West Suffolk Dementia Intensive Support Team. You will be joining a motivated and passionate multi-disciplinary team working to achieve positive outcomes for service users and their carers.
The team is community based and works in individuals homes to prevent breakdown of care and support, to promote independence and stabilise situations preventing admissions to hospital and premature moves into long term care.
The role involves you working with service users, building trust and rapport and enabling them to have the appropriate care and support in place to maintain their independence.
The role involves working with the support of practitioners but managing your own workload and working autonomously in the community.
Please note: This role requires travel and therefore use of own car is essential.
To undertake work as guided by Practitioners with a specific and clear role from the outset.
To build relationships and engage with individuals and their family
To provide intensive short-term goal orientated input to the person
To explore and better understand needs and risks for individuals
To test out and trial care and support with the individuals and then hand over to external agency following this
To support people to access resources in the local community
To demonstrate/transfer knowledge and skills to other carers/family members
To be flexible and adaptable in the input you give
To highlight any concerns or risks to the Practitioner responsible for the case
To write notes of visits and input onto the computer system in a timely manner
To be able to manage own workload effectively
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Why work for us?
We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are: -
NHS pension
a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
career progression
starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
staff physio service
NHS discounts and many more
Why Norfolk and Suffolk?
The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or beautiful countryside. We’re an hour and a half away from London and our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of specialist mental health services for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, serving a population of 1.6 million.
The Dementia Intensive Support Team is a part of the Suffolk Care Group, working within the community to meet the needs of people with Dementia and their carers.
See under main duties of the job, the clinical support workers main role is engaging with and building a relationship with the service user and their family to enable care and support to be introduced to maintain them in their own homes. This involves, assessing and identifying needs and risks and working autonomously.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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