Great opportunity to join a vibrant team of support workers who provide a 24-hours mental wellbeing specialist accommodation-based supported living service for adults aged 18-65 with a diagnosed mental illness and/or primary mental health needs.
Full time
Permanent
Basic Salary £23892.96 plus Geographical Allowance £1940.0
- Support individuals to maintain good mental health and maximise recovery outcomes to maintain independent lives, through culturally appropriate person-led service provision
- Support individuals to prevent tenancy breakdown and loss of accommodation and to be integrated members of their communities.
- Partnership working with relevant agencies, in particular mental health professionals.
- Provide an environment where all individuals within the nine (9) protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010, feel safe, secure, and protected from avoidable harm.
- Promoting independence and enabling people to live as independently as possible.
Essential:
- Experience in supporting vulnerable individuals gained from paid work and/or voluntary and/or life experience
- Minimum of GCSE or Level II qualification in English, or equivalent
- Basic competence in the use of email and word processing software
- Demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude and able to be empathetic towards service users and create a trusting environment
- Able to work in partnership with services users and establish and maintain professional boundaries in working with service users
- Able to establish and maintain a safe environment
- Willing and able to undertake domestic tasks with, and for, service users as necessary
- Demonstrate problem-solving skills relating to welfare benefits, education and relationships
- Open to - and willing to participate in - formal and informal job-related learning
- Willing and able to collaborate with colleagues and other organisations
- Able to use email and computerised systems for service user records and reports
- Able to travel; have access to car/public transport
- Able to work a varying pattern of shifts on a 24 hour 7-day week rota, with notice
Desirable
- Lived experience of mental distress
- NVQ Level II in Health and Social Care, or equivalent
