Job Description
Mental Health Support Worker -(251513)
Description
Mental Health Support Worker
Salary £24,638 to £24,850 per year and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw), split over shifts covering 24 hours a day
Whitehaven and surrounding areas
We can’t offer a CoS for this role
Home, a place where you belong
We are delighted to be launching a new clinical partnership with Everyturn Mental Health and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and we are hiring Support Workers to join Home Group, supporting individuals and communities across Whitehaven and Copeland.
Our new service combines specialist health, social care, and community support, offering a mix of drop-in services, local events and temporary safe spaces for those in crisis. This is a unique opportunity to be part of ground-breaking mental health service and deliver life changing outcomes.
What you’ll do
1. Supporting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
2. Supporting and encouraging customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
3. Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
4. Working closely with colleagues from other organisations to provide the best support when needed.
Why join us?
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the Top Ten Great Places to Work in the UK!
You have
5. A genuine passion for supporting people through mental health challenges
6. Experience caring for others, professionally or personally and willingness to learn and grow, with or without formal qualifications
7. Calm, confident decision-making, even under pressure
8. A flexible, person-centred approach that adapts to each individual
9. To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
The practical bits
10. Shift patterns- covering 24 hours, 7 days a week
11. Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
12. If you are applying for a night role, we will still get together regularly, in the daytime, for training and team meetings.
13. Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
14. You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
Stronger together
We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
15. 34 days leave, pro-rated (including bank holidays and a “me day”)
16. Paid time off for volunteering
17. Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)
18. Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies
19. Career path with development and an excellent training package
20. Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses
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