Warmth, Compassion, Empathy and Dedication. These are qualities we celebrate here at Vita Health Group, and we are looking for a colleague who shares these values too. If you pride yourself on quality of care, patient dignity and have a passion for delivering exceptional mental health care, then this could be the role for you!

Making People Better

As a Community Mental Health Support Worker, you will join a multidisciplinary team of clinical professionals, providing life changing mental health support to individuals across Basildon and Brentwood.

Using your skills and experience in care, you will provide physical health checks for individuals who are on the Serious Mental Illness (SMI) register. You will carry out a range of checks, including smoking status, alcohol intake, sleep, diet, exercise, substance misuse, BMI, waist circumference, blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol, and provide health and wellbeing advice to support your patients going forward.

Your passion for patient care and service delivery will allow you to contribute valuable insights, to help ensure that we are providing the best support for our clients. You will be supported by experienced, engaging clinicians who will work with you to develop your clinical skills and provide regular supervision to help inform your practice.

Getting to know You

Alongside your enthusiasm, commitment and motivation, we would like you to have:

• An NVQ or QFC in Health and Social Care / Certificate in Community Mental Health / Associate Practitioner Training / HCA Care Certificate
• Experience of working with people who live with having mental and/or physical health problems
• An awareness of, and commitment to, supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion

Experience of working within a Primary Care or Community setting would also be great to see but is not essential for the role.

Please Note: You must be able to travel in and around the Basildon and Brentwood area for this role.

If this sounds like the right fit for you, we look forward to welcoming you to the team! 

Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.

We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience.  We work in partnership with the NHS, support the UK’s largest corporate companies to help assist their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.

To achieve our mission of making people better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view here: https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/join-us/careers/

To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.

Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.  To support this we have a dedicated team of EDI specialists and run a range of active in-house diversity networks.

We are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve at all levels. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.

We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

• Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
• Our status as a Disability Confident Employer dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
• Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
• Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
• Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
• The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
• An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will arrange.

VHG is committed to supporting transgender individuals with dignity and recognises the potential complications that may arise when taking references. We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests.

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check. 

Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months. 

Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.

Vita Health Group