Mental Health Support Worker - Crosby, Liverpool
Job Reference: 26/24
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time)
Shift pattern: All shifts are 12-hour shifts. 4 days on, 4 days off, days and waking nights
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays allowance, employer’s contributory pension scheme, EAP scheme and other generous benefits
About Us
Imagine Independence is a leading third sector organisation, passionate about supporting people with mental illness, neurodiversity, learning disabilities, and behaviours that challenge to live as part of their community. Imagine exists to challenge the stigma that having a mental illness or learning disability continues to bring. Imagine supports people to live meaningful lives by nurturing their individuality and recognising the power of small steps. Imagine Independence embrace values that reflect the skills of our workforce.
The Role
The nature of the role includes supporting individuals with budgeting, managing their tenancy, to develop life skills, to support individuals into community opportunities and supporting women to achieve their goals.
Working as part of a team supporting women who have been discharged from secure services who have severe and enduring mental health diagnoses. The service delivered is a person-centred approach within a therapeutically driven environment, which puts women at the heart of their recovery.
* Positive outlook and a can-do attitude.
* Strong skills in supporting individuals with multiple and complex needs.
* Enthusiastic and motivated.
* Passionate about empowering women.
* Work well within a team.
The successful candidate will be provided with a standard induction course along with a comprehensive package of specialist training.
Imagine is a values-based recruiter and so it will be seeking to ensure that the successful candidate will align with the following:
* Meaningful Living: Using empathy to bring together diverse people and resources, to put the everyday within reach of everyone.
* Nurturing Individuality: Creating conditions that support people to be true to themselves and express their truth.
* Focused Dedication: Showing up each day hungry to do our best to learn and develop. We never give up on people.
* Challenging Ideas: Keeping our efforts real and centred on what matters most, we do not settle for the ordinary when better is possible.
* Generous Sharing: Giving of ourselves, our experiences and knowledge, to promote and provide a great service.
An enhanced DBS will be required for this post.
Imagine aims to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community. However, this post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational qualification under the Equality Act 2010.
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