Mental Health Support Worker

Part Time - 24 hours per week An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Mental Health Support Worker to join the St Ives/St Neots Older People's Community Mental Health Team, covering Huntingdon and the surrounding villages supporting patients in their own homes and communities. Key objectives are to support and treat patients living with various mental illnesses such as depression and dementia, and advise their carers. You'll work within a dynamic multidisciplinary team, delivering recovery‑focused care under the guidance of registered practitioners. As a support worker, you will implement provided care plans, manage risk, prevent hospital admissions and work with carers to prevent carer burnout and care placement breakdown. We're looking for someone motivated, proactive, ideally with local knowledge and values aligned with CPFT . The successful candidate will bring not only experience of supporting people living with mental illness but an ability to be compassionate, innovative, inspired to make a difference. We offer excellent development opportunities, including structured training, clinical supervision, role‑specific competencies, apprenticeships, mentoring, and shadowing. With clear career pathways and regular appraisals, we'll support you to grow and progress. The post holder will work within St Ives, Huntingdon, St Neots, and the surrounding geographical areas. The team is an Older People's Mental Health Team for older adults, and the post holder will be required to work in a variety of locations, such as nursing and residential homes, as well as patients' own homes. Some cross‑team work may also be required depending on service needs. The support worker will work within the multidisciplinary community team, holding a supervised caseload. The post holder will take an active role in delivering care and support to patients with functional mental illnesses, such as depression and psychosis, and organic illnesses i.e. dementia. They will manage delegated tasks for a number of service users under the supervision of a registered mental health practitioner. The post holder will support clinical staff in the management and delivery of clinical practice and will provide a high standard of care in line with NICE guidance and other statutory and organisational frameworks. Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life. Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development. All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tracey Rice Job title: Clinical Lead Mental Health Practitioner Email address: tracey.rice@cpft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0330 8080765