Senior Support Worker Sponsorship Available

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

About the location:

Croydon offers great state and private schools. South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provides mental health care to CUH patients through the Croydon Mental Health Liaison service. We are an ageless service, as is the Older Adult Liaison Psychiatry service.

About the Team:

The Croydon University Hospital Mental Health Assessment Unit is part of the Liaison Services and offers psychiatric assessments and treatment to anyone aged 18 and up to determine whether they require mental health care and treatment. The programme is for people who live in the London Borough of Croydon, and our goal is to provide them with the skills they require to treat their mental health issues. We provide a 24-hour service to Croydon University Hospital, providing rapid assessment and intervention to patients. Our team consists of nurses, doctors, an occupational therapist, and a clinical psychologist.

Main responsibilities of the job

About this role

We have substantive vacancies for Band 4, Senior Support Workers at the Clinical Assessment Unit.

The position holders will assist nurses in performing patient reviews and watching patients to determine their needs, strengths, and issues.

Providing emotional support, direction, and encouragement to patients while they are in the evaluation unit.

Effective communication with patients, families, and healthcare professionals is essential to ensure that everyone is informed of the patient’s requirements, progression, and concerns.

Offer person-centered support in a planned and coordinated manner.

We are searching for a forward-thinking, creative, and responsive senior support worker who is passionate about people and family-centered care; you must be enthusiastic, creative, resilient, and able to respond to others in a flexible manner.

This dynamic profession provides good opportunity for gaining experience and skills in an acute hospital setting. Successful candidates would be expected to perform a 24-hour shift, including weekends and bank holidays.

About us.

Benefits:

We are devoted to ensuring that our employees get the most of their benefits package and recognise the value of a good work-life balance. You and your family can enjoy a wide range of fantastic benefits. We want you to feel like you’re part of a close-knit SLaM team. We want you to feel valued and appreciated, thus we offer a comprehensive benefits package.

Some of our benefits are listed below:

• We provide generous compensation, pensions, and leave packages based on job type and length of service.
• We prioritise work-life balance and flexible working arrangements, including part-time and job sharing.
• Career developmentThere are several chances to advance your career, and we support your growth through a variety of programmes such as mentorship, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programmes.
• We offer reasonable car leasing deals to our workforce.
• Our staff have access to keyworker housing at specified sites.
• Health Service savings offers savings of up to 10% on popular retail brands through their website.

Additional benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards.
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Childcare Vouchers
• Staff eateries.

We are looking forward to receiving your application.

Certificate of Sponsorship

applicants from job seekers who require existing skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are encouraged and will be reviewed alongside all other applicants. For more information, see the UK Visas and Immigration website (opens in a new tab).

From April 6, 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance into the UK were required to show a criminal record certificate from each country where they had lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the previous ten years. This requirement also applies to adult dependents (those over the age of 18).Guidance can be found here. Criminal records checks for international candidates (opens in a new tab).