Job Title: Clinical Support Worker
Agency: East London NHS Foundation Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 28,392 – 31,157 £ / Year

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Job Summary

The East London Intensive Support Team provides a 7-day-a-week urgent and intensive community response for people with Learning Disabilities with additional complex mental health needs and/or behaviours that services perceive to be challenging, that result in the person posing a risk to themselves or others. The service operates across the inner east London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham, City, and Hackney.

The post holder will assist other professionals in the IST in providing assessment, care, treatment, and discharge planning. This will be achieved through close collaboration with the person, carers, colleagues, and other service providers. This may include supporting people during admissions to acute mental health wards.

The post holder will work directly with service users to develop a rapport based upon respect, kindness, and compassion that builds the basis of a professional relationship. You will have a significant role in supporting service users to engage with their agreed Care Plans, positively promoting independent living and recovery.

You will work as a part of a multidisciplinary team, building relationships within the Intensive Support Team as well as with the Community Learning Disability and Inpatient services and Local Authorities across East London.

Main duties of the job

1. To support the Intensive Support team in providing assessments, care, and treatment for People with learning disabilities, Mental health issues, and behaviours that challenge in the community under direct or indirect supervision of the team.
2. To use skills in working with people with learning disabilities who are experiencing a Crisis to maintain, promote, and improve health.
3. To provide advice and consultation to colleagues supporting Autistic Adults who do not have Learning Disabilities.
4. To facilitate access to health services through collaboration and partnership with primary and secondary health services, and other relevant services.
5. Developing working relationships with clients, provider organisations, GPs, and local community resources.
6. Support in the delivery of generic health tasks such as the completion of Hospital Passports, Health Action Plans, monitoring of mental health, and behaviours that may challenge.
7. Prepare clients and carers for health appointments to enhance their understanding to enable them to actively participate in their own health care.
8. To contribute to shaping local health services in the way they are organised and run to promote an inclusive service for people with learning disabilities.

How to Apply;

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