Assertive Outreach Clinical Support Worker

The assertive outreach clinical support worker will be embedded in the core community mental health teams. Their role will be to deliver mental health support and treatment to the cohort of service-users who experience complex psychosis and are identified as requiring assertive outreach in North East Essex. The assertive outreach clinical support worker will support the process of undertaking co-produced, personalised care & support planning with service users where goals and interventions are based on each individuals strengths, assets and sense of what will make a more meaningful life for themselves. This may include supporting service users to be gainfully engaged as per their goals in education, employment, volunteering, training, recovery colleges, or other meaningful occupation, and should include relevant collaborative approach. The assertive outreach clinical support worker will work in close collaboration and take direction from the assertive outreach mental health practitioner.
The assertive outreach clinical support worker will have a particular focus on working with service-users admitted to mental health inpatient and rehabilitation units, and will assertively support the safe and timely discharge of this cohort to appropriate accommodation in the community. Successful applicants to this post should be aware that further service development in the future may impact on the nature of this role, and it is possible that the post-holder will be required to be flexible in respect of their job plan.