NHS – Op COURAGE Southwest Community Mental Health Support Worker

Job overview

Op COURAGE Southwest is a NHS England commissioned service delivering a veterans’ mental health service across the Southwest area which includes Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset.

Op COURAGE, working in conjunction with statutory NHS services, provides a complete mental health pathway for service personnel, reservists, armed forces veterans, and their families. We also work closely with a number of third sector military organisations and other commissioned military services.

Op COURAGE builds on the existing statutory provision within local areas to ensure that a veteran can access a holistic service that brings together mental health, physical health and wellbeing provision to meet the veteran’s individual need.

Op COURAGE Southwest is one of 6 national NHS teams and works across the area in a partnership with specialist organisations to provide an integrated service. AWP is the Lead provider for Op Courage Southwest Integrated Veterans Mental Health Services (IVMH), other members of the partnership are:

• Dorset Healthcare University Foundation NHS Trust,
• Walking With The Wounded,
• Combat Stress,
• Mental Health Matters,
• Togetherall

We are currently seeking to recruit a Band 4 Community Support Worker who will work across the Somerset and Dorset area and support the delivery of this vital service.

Main duties of the job

• To provide focused, person-centred support and care interventions to people living in the community with severe and enduring mental health needs. To work alongside a multidisciplinary team, under the indirect supervision of registered clinicians, in an associate recovery worker and/or care coordinator role. Key activities will include:
• Forming compassionate, recovery-focused, therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers, supporting them to manage their mental health needs in a community setting.
• Engaging in the full range of ongoing needs assessment processes required by the team, including mental state, dynamic clinical risk, spiritual and cultural needs, and emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing.
• Supporting service users to manage their finances and / or housing needs.
• Empowering service users to self-manage aspects of their ongoing treatment, such as medication, diet and lifestyle, physical health and general wellbeing.
• Key activities may also include undertaking the role of Care Coordinator for service users who have been assessed as presenting relatively low to moderate levels of clinical complexity and risk, under the guidance and supervision of registered clinicians.

Find out more and apply here.