Clinical Support Assistant in Coventry

We have an exciting opportunity for a Mental Health Band 4 Clinical Support Assistant to join the Community Mental Health Team in Coventry, working with patients with both psychotic and non-psychotic presentations. The team operates from a Coventry base, with clinical work carried out in the office and in patients' homes.

We are seeking a candidate with strong knowledge and experience of working with service users who have a range of mental health difficulties, including psychosis, emotion regulation difficulties, depression, and anxiety. This experience may have been gained through prior learning, clinical placements, or relevant work in mental health services.

Main duties of the job include:

• Delivery of evidence-based mental health psychoeducation and skills across a range of formats, including individual sessions, home-based work, clinic-based appointments, and occasional group interventions.
• Holding a defined caseload of appropriate patients, working under indirect supervision, and providing interventions aligned with best practice and identified patient needs.
• Involvement in routine triage functions for all routine referrals made to the Coventry Community Mental Health Team, including assessing referral information, identifying appropriate care pathways, and contributing to the safe and efficient management of waiting lists.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, while also showing confidence and reliability when working independently. An understanding of professional boundaries, scope of practice, and when to seek guidance is essential. Strong organisational skills, effective time management, and the ability to prioritise a varied workload are critical to success in this role.

This team places a huge emphasis on training and ongoing supervision both in a group setting and individual basis. Applicants should be thorough, boundaried and confident practitioners with a good understanding of Mental Health presentations. It is essential that candidates read the Job Description and Person Spec carefully to ensure they meet both the academic qualifications and experience listed there. Above all, the essential qualities we are looking for are warmth, compassion, empathy and the ability to be relatable.

Having a full UK Driving Licence and access to and the use of a vehicle for attending appointments in the community is essential. It is important for applicants to understand that this vacancy is for a Band 4 role, and as such applicants would need to demonstrate a wider range of skills and experience than would be required for a Band 3 post.

To support your application, you will need to provide evidence/explanation around the following:

• Experience within a Community Mental Health setting, which could include experience within a charity, local authority or counselling service setting.
• Knowledge of the application of psychological skills, including anxiety management, graded exposure, emotional regulation, and mood management.
• Good knowledge of Mental Health concerns, symptomology and impact on clients' lives; with the ability to gather information to inform the clinical triage process.

Previous applicants are encouraged to use the above to refocus their applications.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.