Community Support Worker EIP Team

The post-holder will work as a Community Support Worker within the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Team providing support in the delivery of evidence-based specialist mental health assessments and interventions that are socially inclusive and recovery-focused, in line with national standards for people aged 14-65 experiencing first episode psychosis (FEP) or an at-risk mental state (ARMS) for the development of psychosis.

The Community Support Worker has a specific remit to support service users to identify and develop clear recovery focused goals and support service users to attain these during their time in the EIP service.

The role involves contributing to and supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team in the timely assessment of service users referred to the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Team, the provision of evidence-based interventions either on an individual or group basis to those supported by the service and the use of standard outcome measures to monitor recovery using the HoNOS, QPR and DIALOG.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

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Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people – our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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The EIP team is a community-based service. The post-holder will be required to travel across Nottinghamshire to support the needs of service users, their family members and carers. The use of digital technologies to support service need and delivery are likely to be required within this role.