Job summary
- Main area
- Support worker
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5, exclusive of bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 444-6440959-CG
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St. Marys Lodge
- Town
- Leamington Spa
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Support worker - Band 3
NHS AfC: Band 3
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team. If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for band 3 support worker to join our team.
The Team covers the locality of South Warwickshire. We have two bases, one in Leamington Spa and one in Stratford This post is to be based at St. Mary’s Lodge in Leamington Spa but there may be occasion where the successful applicant will be required to provide cover in the Stratford base, so being a car driver is essential to this role.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work alongside a dynamic, supportive, multi-disciplinary team of nurses, doctors, occupational therapists, psychologists and social workers as well as other support workers to deliver recovery focussed interventions in the community. This includes a range of individual and group interventions. Your role will include supporting our well-established interventions, working alongside the medical staff and other team members to ensure that our patients’ needs are met. The role is wide ranging, diverse and interesting, with no two days being the same.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
· generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
· excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
· salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
· discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
· wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
· staff networks and support groups
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a successful candidate you will have the opportunity to build your skills and confidence working with patients delivering recovery focused interventions. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, using evidence-based approaches and time limited interventions. You’ll be communicating with a wide variety of clients; professionals; partners and agencies.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ/QCF Level 3 or equivalent qualification or be working towards.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding of health and safety issues
- Ability to complete outcome measures
- Ability to follow policies and procedures
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in Community mental health care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Saul
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01926 339261
- Additional information
9-5 Monday to Friday, exclusive of bank holidays.
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