Clinical Support Worker
Full-time
Mid
Description
The service consists of a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, support workers and lived experience staff. The service has been created to relieve pressure on the Emergency Department (ED) at St Thomas' Hospital.. This is achieved by providing a diversionary assessment space for patients with mental health problems who would otherwise have been seen in the ED but have no concurrent acute physical health concern. This area will provide collaborative and timely care to patients requiring mental health care and treatment, in line with National emergency care access standards. We have substantive vacancies for Liaison Crisis Activity/Support Workers - Crisis Liaison. To work across a 24 hour/7day a week roster 365 days of the year. The post holders will support and facilitate individual therapeutic care plans/therapeutic interventions that have been planned with or by qualified/senior members of the team. You will play a key role in developing and facilitating collaborative and therapeutic activities with service users. Provide person centred support in a planned and coordinated manner. Participate in clinical audits/assessments,
• To coordinate, facilitate and carry out individual and group activity programmes with patients. Care will be planned under the supervision of senior members of the Team.
• Identify creative ways of utilising digital and virtual means of occupying services users in therapeutic ways.
• Create positive working relationships with local services and local activity providers across the 4 boroughs covered by the Trust, as well as creating and compiling resources within the unit.
• To provide support to families and carers, including assisting other colleagues in the safe running of the unit.
• To attend and contribute to clinical team meetings and handovers across the liaison and emergency department.
• You will support senior team members with welcoming, conducting baseline observations, and engaging patients on enhanced observations.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training. SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. By coming to work at SLaM you will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels.
• To coordinate, facilitate and carry out individual and group activity programmes with patients. Care will be planned under the supervision of senior members of the Team.
• Identify creative ways of utilising digital and virtual means of occupying services users in therapeutic ways.
• Create positive working relationships with local services and local activity providers across the 4 boroughs covered by the Trust, as well as creating and compiling resources within the unit.
• To provide support to families and carers, including assisting other colleagues in the safe running of the unit.
• To attend and contribute to clinical team meetings and handovers across the liaison and emergency department.
• You will support senior team members with welcoming, conducting baseline observations, and engaging patients on enhanced observations.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training. SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. By coming to work at SLaM you will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014; providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels.