About The Role
Excellent opportunity for Mental Health Support Workers to help provide holisticrecovery-focused support to clients with mental health across the EEDMHS.
At Salvation Army Homes we are dedicated to providing comprehensive, good quality housing services, support and resettlement.
The Mental Health Support Worker willbeengaging creativelywith acaseload of clients based on their identified support needs to identify and develop the skills and resources to transform their lives and enable independent living.
This will involve providing high quality support for vulnerable clients through 1:1 and group sessions and working closely with external partner agencies. The Mental Health Support Worker will be able to:
* Support and accompany clients to attend essential appointments eg related to health, debts or housing, etc
* Support and advise clients to access information on housing, health, welfare, benefits and other resources.
* Support with medication, where required
* Actively engage residents in developing the service
* Help assess potential new clients
* Liaise with external agencies etc. including Health Professionals
* Help manage any incidents or challenging behaviour
* Develop person-centred Support Plans and Risk Management Plans and keep accurate records
About The Candidate
You will have a working knowledge of the nee...