Community Mental Health Worker

The role involves:

• To improve the lives of people experiencing severe mental health difficulties.
• To encourage and support active participation of service users underpinned by the MindWise Day Care model of recovery to discovery.
• Ensure the ongoing confidence of all stakeholders including service users and the public in MindWise service provision.

Key objectives for the post:

• Work in partnership with the individual service user to develop support and wellbeing plans based on individual needs and strengths.
• Support individuals to self manage and develop independent living skills.
• Supporting individuals potentially in stressful situations, people in crisis and individuals considering suicide or self harm.
• Work within the team around ongoing assessment and management of risk
• Liaise with mental health professionals and other agencies on behalf of people who use our services.

Experience and knowledge required:

• Must be able to demonstrate a minimum of 6 months experience of providing support to people with a mental illness either in a paid or voluntary position.

OR

• Demonstrate a minimum of 1 year’s experience of providing support in paid or voluntary capacity in another care setting.
• Able to demonstrate good written communication skills.

Full Criteria and details for all posts, are contained within the application pack which may be downloaded from the MindWise Recruitment Website http://www.cloudonlinerecruitment.co.uk/MindWise