Support Worker Practitioners

Are you ready for your next challenge delivering specialist complex care?

Location: Northampton

Salary: From £23,879 plus enhancements

Full time 37.5 hours 

We are looking for experienced (within complex care) Support workers to join our team

A bit about us

We are St Andrew’s a mental health Charity which inspires Hope. We work together with a number of organisations to transform the lives of people with complex mental health needs. We provide specialist mental healthcare and deliver a range of inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve lives.

Our vision for the future is a society in which everyone living with mental health need is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

Come join us. Let's transform lives together.

About our Supported Transition Services

Our specialist Supported Transition Services in Northampton, are an opportunity for innovative, enhanced and intense support outside of a secure hospital ward environment. The care we offer in our services includes collaborative, responsive, timely and appropriate interventions that support individuals to live satisfying lives in community settings.  With a deep understanding of neurodiversity and have a particular focus on tailored person-centred care in a sensory-led/sensory focussed environment. 

In line with Building the Right Support document and the Transforming Care national context, St Andrew’s Healthcare are designing and delivering innovative new services that allow a Supported Transition Service (STS) for those with complex physical and mental health conditions who have a diagnosis of LD and/or ASD. These can either offer a safe environment or support structure for discharge from hospital or, they can prevent an admission into a hospital. 

The role

You will be an integral part of a team providing specialist care to individuals with a learning disability and/or Autism who has complex needs and challenges in a bespoke environment, curated specifically for them.

As part of the specialist team supporting a person we care for, your role will have an emphasis on early detection of any escalation of need and to help prevent crises from occurring. You will provide an enhanced level of input into someone’s day-to-day care in order to avoid out of area hospital admissions in line with the Transforming Care Agenda.

You will be provided with a tailored training package specifically designed to support you to be able to deliver highly specialised care and support.

This is a rewarding position for someone who has natural empathy and a passion for helping people. You will be pivotal in supporting people to achieve their goals, helping them to live more independently and contributing to a developing a flexible safety culture.

About you

We are looking to appoint experienced people who feel a strong connection and passion for the care and support we provide. You will be a dynamic, enthusiastic person working, or have previously worked in a specialist care setting supporting unique individuals, making a real difference in their lives and supporting them with challenges they face.

Essential Criteria:

• Minimum of 12 months’ experience within a mental healthcare setting and 6 months’ experience in complex care.
• Developing a flexible safety culture – where everyone is responsible for the safety of the environment and reducing conflict.
• Showing compassion and understanding towards behaviours of concern. Many of the service users you will work with, have encountered severe trauma in their lives and their behaviour must be seen in the context of past events.
• Demonstrate reliability and dependability.
• Demonstrate honesty and respect for people and other colleagues within the organisation.
• Positive, recovery focused, communication.
• Have at least, a basic realisation of the prevalence and widespread impact of trauma.
• Have good interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to promote, establish and maintain healthy working relationships with a range of individuals and organisations.
• Promote equality and diversity in all aspects of the role.
• To represent the organisation professionally and ethically at all times.
• Preserve the human rights of the person involved in the use of the restrictive intervention, preventing unlawful breaches of rights, and taking positive steps to protect rights.
• Live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.
• Willing to undertake personal care tasks (washing, toileting, etc.) in some areas
• Supporting people with complex physical and mental health needs to live worthy and meaningful lives.
• Ensuring people in your care have their own gold standard quality of life.
• Encouraging inclusion in local community, working collaboratively with internal multidisciplinary professionals and supporting access to mainstream health services.
• Responsible for ensuring the patients voice is heard and valued throughout the care they receive.
• The role includes being able to assess and manage risk and behaviours that may challenge the service in a least restrictive way.
• The ability to demonstrate affective team working

Interested?

If this sounds like you then we’d love you to apply here. If you would like more information or an informal discussion about the career opportunities on offer please contact our Recruitment Team at recruitment@stah.org.

Closing Date: Thursday 24th April 2025