All-Age Nurse Led Psychiatric Liaison Team Healthcare Support Worker
Location: The Balfour
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 36
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Orkney
Department: All-Age Nurse Led Psychiatric Liaison Team

About the Organisation
As Scotland's smallest health board, NHS Orkney is committed to delivering excellent care to our 22,000 residents. Whether you're new to the NHS or bringing experience from elsewhere, your skills will make a real difference.

Our modern healthcare facility, The Balfour, brings together inpatient care, emergency services, outpatient clinics, diagnostics, GP practices and the Scottish Ambulance Service. We're also investing in services across our outer isles, ensuring high-quality care reaches every corner of Orkney.

We are guided by our core values that shape everything we do: Open and honest, Respect and Kindness, from how we care for our patients to how we support each other as colleagues.

About Orkney
With over 70 islands, 20 of them inhabited, Orkney offers a unique blend of natural beauty, close-knit community and an opportunity for adventure. From dramatic coastlines and rare wildlife to rich cultural traditions and active lifestyles, it's a place where compassion thrives and every day brings something new. Regularly named one of the UK's best places to live, Orkney offers a lifestyle that's both fulfilling and inspiring.

The Position
As part of the All-Age Nurse-Led Psychiatric Liaison Team, you will provide compassionate, person-centred care and support to individuals referred to the service. You will work collaboratively with patients, carers and other professionals to deliver agreed plans of care using a strengths-based, recovery-focused approach that promotes independence and self-management.

You will work autonomously across a range of hospital, community and home or near-home settings, ensuring care is delivered safely and in line with relevant professional standards, legislation and clinical policies. The role will involve managing an allocated caseload, working closely with partner services and participating in regular caseload management and clinical supervision.

The Candidate
You will be educated to, or actively working towards, SVQ Level 3 / SCQF Level 7, with completion of a health, mental health or social care programme, or equivalent relevant learning and experience.

You will have a good working knowledge of mental health and an understanding of the wider health and social care issues that can impact an individual's mental health and wellbeing. Experience of working within a community environment would support you in delivering care across a range of home and near-home settings.

You will be a confident and effective communicator, able to build positive working relationships with patients, carers, colleagues and partner professionals. You should be able to follow agreed instructions while also working effectively without direct supervision, demonstrating practice in line with HCSW Standards and the Code of Conduct.

Good digital skills are also important, including the ability to use email, information systems and basic digital applications. As the role involves undertaking a number of clinical contacts across community settings each day, you will also need to be able to travel effectively between locations, which may involve driving.

It is essential that the post holder has access to transport and if driving themselves, should hold a full driving licence. If by virtue of a disablement, an applicant has the qualifications to perform the post but cannot drive, then the possibility of adjustments to arrange transport will be considered.

Location, Working Pattern and Contract Duration
This post will be based at Vaenta. The successful candidate will work: Full Time 36 hours per week. This post is Permanent.
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NHS Orkney.

Benefits and Salary
Did you know NHS Scotland salaries are higher than those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
The salary for this post is Band 3 and if residing on Orkney, you'll also receive a Distant Islands Allowance of £1,719 pro rata per annum, adding extra value to your rewarding career with us.
NHS Orkney also offers an attractive pension scheme, wide range of work life balance policies, employee assistance programme and various discounts to both local and national retailers.

Further Information
If you share our vision and are ready to be part of Team Orkney, we'd love to hear from you. Your rewarding career starts here!
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during your application. If there are additional requirements you would like to request, please contact ork.recruitment@nhs.scot
For further guidance on the recruitment process and tips for creating a strong application, please refer to our Candidate Application Pack.
To find out more about this opportunity please contact Megan Marwick, All-Age Nurse Psychiatric Liaison Team Lead on megan.marwick@nhs.scot
This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland check.
NHS Orkney is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce. We are a committed participant in the Disability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.
Please note this advert may close early if sufficient applications are received.