Job Description

Do you want to work for an established and respected local mental health charity?

Solent Mind is a ­mental health charity providing a range of high quality services to improve people’s mental wellbeing and to promote choice and rights to everyone who needs our support. Our services operate in various locations throughout the Hampshire area.

Portsmouth Integrated Commissioning Unit commissions Solent Mind (Lead Provider) together with Rowans Hospice to deliver a service to meet the needs of people with dementia and their carers in Portsmouth.  The service supports people from diagnosis to end of life.  We are currently recruiting for:

Reference: IESWMSep21

INTENSIVE ENGAGEMENT SUPPORT WORKER (Maternity Cover)

Contract: Maternity Cover (Approximately Sep 2021 To Sep 2022 - TBC)

Hours: 22.5 Hours Per Week (to include Thursdays) (job secondment also considered)

Salary: £19,880 to £21,409 Pro Rata Per Annum

Location: Portsmouth (also combined with some home working)

Closing Date: Wed 06 Oct 2021 (Before 9.00am)

Interview Date: TBC

The Intensive Engagement Support Worker will work with key stakeholders, including statutory and voluntary and community sector organisations, in particular the Dementia Specialist Nurses from Rowans Hospice and Solent NHS Trust’s Older Person’s Mental Health team to enable people to maximise their potential and quality of life and live as independently as possible for as long as possible. As we come out of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the worker will also be supporting people to reconnect with the wider community.

The role will support the reduction of admissions and readmissions into acute care (i.e. hospital) from the community, preventing escalation of need or deterioration in health and reducing the level of reliance on, or size of packages of care.

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Solent Mind welcomes applications from all the communities in which we work.

Appointments are made on merit.

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