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Job overview

We are very excited to be able to offer a part-time senior support worker post within the Gloucester Recovery Team. The post would be based at Pullman Place, a community base for the Recovery and other community teams to enable lots of helpful information/skills/ knowledge sharing and positive interface working. The post would mainly involve active participation and responsibility in working within the well-established Gloucester Clozapine clinic which serves patients prescribed this medication who live in the Gloucester locality and lead responsibility for a defined caseload of Recovery patients with suitable risk and complexity, mainly who access the clinic.  Though mainly clinic based, due to the nature of community working the post does require vehicle access and ability to drive.

The Gloucester Recovery Team is a friendly, welcoming and dynamic team providing secondary care services to adults of working age, their families and significant others, to provide the best possible outcomes for people with complex mental health needs. The aim of the team is to work in line with the principles of Recovery and Social Inclusion. We strive to ensure that locality services represent excellent quality, (safe and a positive experience) and good value, (efficient and effective).

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who has experience of working with adults of Working Age and supporting individuals with Enduring Mental Health problems.

Main duties of the job

• Under the supervision of registered practitioners assist in the provision of care and treatment to service users in a community setting, in line with the principles of social inclusion and recovery, and the ‘Capabilities for Inclusive Practice’.
• To act as a Lead Professional for those service users on Standard care identified and directed by senior practitioners assessing service user’s needs and developing and implementing care plans.
• To provide support, give time to allocated group of service users with more complex needs and thus promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment.
• To assist the care co-ordinator or key worker to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
• To facilitate access to activities to meet the needs of service users and carers within community settings.
• To participate in induction and support of new staff and students and to co-supervise junior staff.
• To attend and participate in identified training and the staff appraisal process.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey  gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.