Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Mental Health Support Worker – Young Adults Team to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Bronzefield.
Job Title: Mental Health Support Worker
Job Type: Full-time
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary: 28,860 – 31,671 £ / Year
Deadline: 19 October 2025
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this post is to work as a member of the multi-disciplinary clinical team within a prison healthcare setting. Your role would involve working compassionately with young adults with neurodevelopmental & mental health needs within the prison, either within the inpatient unit and/or on the main wings/houseblocks. You will focus on the holistic needs of service users, working across boundaries of care, organisations and roles coordinated through the Care Programme Approach within a trauma informed care framework.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Care certificate or relevant equivalent
- Ability & desire to obtain both underpinning knowledge and NVQ qualifications
- NVQ Level 4 or demonstrable equivalent in health or social care
- Commitment to undertake Continuing Personal Development
Desirable
- Willing to undertake NVQ Level 4 or demonstrable equivalent in health or social care (if appointed through preceptorship)
Attitudes, aptitudes personal characteristics
Essential
- Commitment to promoting the needs of people with neurodevelopmental & mental health requirements
- Self-motivated
- Empathy, compassion and patience
- An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour
- Be versatile, accessible and flexible in availability
Other
Essential
- The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the equal opportunities policy at a level appropriate to the job.
- Ability to promote anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practices.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Experience of mental health services (as a worker, service user or carer)
- Working within a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)
- Working knowledge and understanding of CPA process.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a prison setting
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to listen and communicate effectively at all levels
- Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users
- Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings
- Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote anti-discriminatory practice/equal opportunities
- Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities
- An understanding of safeguarding adults and children
Desirable
- An understanding of the mental health system.
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