Overview
Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellent mental health services, housing, and supported living.
Bank Night Senior Mental Health Support Worker - £14.22 per Hour.
Hours – Monday – Sunday, shifts include days, evenings, nights and weekends.
Service – Rowan House, Littlemore.
What You’ll Be Doing
Response is looking for an enthusiastic, caring person to join their dedicated team at Rowan House. Rowan House is home to 25 residents with acute mental health needs, working alongside the Adult Mental Health Team. Our roles offer employees variety where every day is different whilst also giving a great sense of pride seeing the positive impact you can have on others.
As a Senior Mental Health Support Worker, you will be responsible for:
* Leading shifts, delegating set diarised and daily tasks
* Taking the lead during incidents, safeguarding and complaints in the absence of the manager, ensuring policies and procedures are adhered
* Ensuring all staff are completing relevant health and safety tasks
* Mentoring new support workers through induction including the completion of the Care Certificate and medication training; completing the care certificate assessors training
* Working within a One Team Approach and ensuring this culture permeates through the team and leading by example
* Undertaking assessments of referrals and attending regular assessment and risk management training
* Providing emotional support, encouragement, and practical assistance to residents with daily living activities (e.g., medication assistance, engaging with interests, education, accessing community groups/facilities, employment, teaching life skills such as shopping, budgeting, using public transport, planning to prepare and cook meals, maintaining accommodation)
* Ensuring risk is continuously assessed and risk management plans are kept up to date
* Complying with and staying up to date with safeguarding policies and procedures for both Adults and Children and Young People
The Successful Applicant
Our main priority for all our roles at Response is to find people that can live our values every day – Caring, Safe, Creative and Aspirational.
Essential criteria:
* GCSEs in English and Maths (or equivalent)
* A commitment to undertake continual personal development
* Detailed understanding of mental health and wellbeing challenges and the level of care and support residents may require
* An understanding of current approaches to mental health practice
* Have good knowledge of how to support with referrals and assessments
* An understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion issues impacting people’s lives
* IT literate with experience using MS Office packages
* Previous related work experience
* Good communication skills, written, verbal and listening
* A genuine interest in mental health and well-being with a commitment to delivering Response's mission
What We Offer
* 25 days annual leave and standard bank and public holidays
* Blue Light card and other discounted shopping
* Employee Assistant Programme – with access to free counselling
* Cycle to Work Scheme (after probation)
* Enhanced family friendly leave
* Professional qualification sponsorship and study leave
* £500 refer a friend bonus scheme
* Optional health cash plan with money off prescriptions and treatments
* Wellbeing hub and mental wellbeing support app – approved by NHS
* Free flu jabs
* Free DBS application
You will receive the training and confidence to use core therapeutic talk therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Strength-based Trauma Informed Care and Mutual Aid to provide the best possible support to our clients.
If this Bank Senior Night Mental Health Support Worker position sounds like the role for you then please apply today! We would love to hear from you! This vacancy may be closed early. To learn more about Response and what we do, please visit our website. Closing date – 16/10/2025
Additional Information
All our roles require a DBS check, two references from most recent employers and you must have the right to work in the UK – Unfortunately, Response are not able to offer sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for the role and require sponsorship, you will be withdrawn from the recruitment process. Our employees and clients come from all over the world, we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture and are registered as a Disability Confident Employer.
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