Senior Support Worker

Are you passionate about improving the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people, and their families? Do you enjoy working collaboratively within a supportive multidisciplinary team? If so, we would love to hear from you., The Early Help Team provides timely support and interventions for children, young people, and families, helping to improve emotional wellbeing and prevent the escalation of mental health difficulties. As a Senior Support Worker, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care and interventions across the service.

Working alongside clinicians and other members of the multidisciplinary team, you will facilitate the development and delivery of care and interventions within the Early Help Team. Your role will contribute to the full range of routine care tasks and support the effective delivery of services for children, young people, and families., The Band 4 Senior Support Worker role will involve a wide range of work, such as:

-Supporting facilitating groups

-Supporting with organising interventions, running waiting lists, gathering and sharing data

-Analysing data alongside team members to improve services

-Working on duty -- supporting clinicians with tasks and completing routine work

-Supporting community outreach events such as Parent and Carer Events (PACE)

-Supporting with assessment of young people's needs

-Liaison with other professionals and networks such as children's services and schools.

-Engaging in multi-disciplinary meetings

-Sharing service updates with the team

-Signposting to external services and writing correspondence to young people and families

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and compassionate Senior Support Worker to join our CAMHS Early Help Team at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (HIOWH).

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

£28,392 to £31,157 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata