Support Worker

To focus on the direct needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisations and role co-ordinated through the Care programme Approach.

To provide S upport and give T ime to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their R ecovery and maintain them in the community environment, helping them to build their own support network.

To support service users to identify their needs and to assist mental health practitioners to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans.

To have the individual service users needs at the fore at all times and use agreed values and skills to underpin their day to day work.

To assist the mental health practitioners in administering agreed standards of care to all service users.

Support service users with their social needs, encouraging them to access relevant agencies according to their needs.

We are looking for a motivated support worker to join our Service on the Isle of Wight. You will be able to work in a recovery focused way with people who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis or have an at risk mental state.

You will need to have excellent communication and engagement skills as well as a commitment to improving service delivery.

Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population. Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.

This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.

We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the new organisation will be called Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

As part of the move towards working as one organisation, people employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust on 30 April 2024, will transfer to Southern Health Foundation Trust under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.

On 1 st July 2024 Southern Health will become the new organisation (Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare Foundation Trust).

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust will continue to deliver both acute and ambulance services for the island population.