Care & Support worker - Bank
Letchworth
The role
A rewarding opportunity has arisen to join the Care and Support mental health team in Letchworth. Within this role you support residents with enduring mental health issues. This can be highly challenging but rewarding in equal measure.
This role does require shift work, including some weekends and bank holidays.
As a key worker you will be fully responsible for your customers support plans and encouraging their independence. The customers all have complex enduring mental ill health, regularly the result of drug induced psychosis, with unpredictable behavioural patterns. They require positive support to ensure their independence is maintained and they are encouraged to remain as active in the community as possible. The ultimate objective if for residence to return to independent living in the community.
What you`ll need to succeed
As this is a lone working role, experience in supporting vulnerable adults is essential. You will be required to make decisions on how to deal with safeguarding and risk issues daily so you must be confident and decisive in responding to issues. While you have the full support of a dedicated management structure daily, you will be the lead in the service. Including maintaining detailed records and dealing with third parties involved with residence suppor...