Hours: Initially full time (37hrs per week) for first twelve months but reducing to minimum of 27 hrs per week thereafter.
Contract: Permanent
Purpose
To provide Support, Time and Recovery to an allocated number of service users in order to promote their Recovery and maintain them in their community environment helping them to build their own social support network/s.
Job Summary * To work as a member of the Insight Early Intervention for Psychosis (EIP) team , who provide supportive and creative mental health services which focus on the direct needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisation and role co-ordinated through the Care Programme Approach. * To support service users to identify their needs and to assist care co-ordinators to plan, implement and evaluate care plans. * To have the individual service user's needs at the fore at all times, working to the Recovery Model to support Service Users to work towards their identified personal goals. To use agreed values and skills to underpin their day to day work.Key Duties and ResponsibilitiesClinical * To demonstrate an empathic understanding of mental health problems and issues. * To initiate and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users and their carers. * To actively engage with service users and carers in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which takes account of their strengths and of the physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of individuals and groups. * To respond to the needs of people in an honest, non-judgemental and open manner,
