About the Role
West Sussex, Brighton & Hove | Community & Home-Based Support | Car Owner‑Driver Essential
West Onwards is our specialist regional team delivering high‑intensity, complex‑needs support packages to individuals across West Sussex, Brighton, and Hove. We are seeking skilled, compassionate Support Workers to join this growing service, providing personalised mental health support to people in their own homes and within the community.
This is a varied, meaningful role supporting individuals with complex presentations who require consistent, psychologically informed care. If you thrive on making a real impact and enjoy working across different locations, we want to hear from you.
Sponsorship is not available with this role
Job Opportunity
💛 About West Onwards
West Onwards provides bespoke community support for adults with mental health diagnoses, neurodiversity, and complex needs who may have experienced trauma, hospital stays, or periods of instability. Our approach is person‑centred, strengths‑based, and psychologically informed, focused on enabling people to live safely and independently in their community.
Support workers travel across the region to deliver structured, meaningful support tailored to each person’s goals, risks, and circumstances.
✨ What You’ll Be Doing
In this dynamic regional role, you will:
* Support individuals with complex needs in their own homes and community settings.
* Facilitate a person‑centred service ethos and promote independence.
* Complete dynamic risk assessments and develop structured support plans.
* Promote wellbeing and appropriately manage risk at all times.
* Use therapeutic de‑escalation and crisis‑intervention techniques where required.
* Encourage engagement, participation, and personal growth.
* Work flexibly to meet support needs across the region.
* Maintain accurate records and uphold company and national policies.
Car owner‑drivers are essential, as support is delivered across multiple locations.
Mileage/travel expenses are paid for all journeys outside your normal commute.
Essential Skills
🌼 What We’re Looking For
We welcome applicants who are:
* Compassionate, patient, and resilient.
* Able to build trusting relationships with individuals with complex needs.
* Skilled in addressing or constructively challenging inappropriate or negative behaviours.
* Adaptable, responsive, and able to manage changing support needs.
* Confident using Microsoft Office and maintaining clear documentation.
* Car owner‑drivers (essential due to the regional travel element).
Ideal experience:
Some background in social care, mental health, neurodiversity support, or community‑based roles.
About Company
Venture-People is an award-winning organisation, formed from our shared ambition to provide high-quality and psychologically informed support.
We provide bespoke, community-based support to individuals with complex needs; including a mental health diagnosis, neurodiversity, or those who may have endured trauma.
The people we support may have spent an extended period in hospital or another setting, therefore we utilise a person-centred approach; empowering individuals to become as independent as possible within their own homes
DE&I
Venture People aims to create and encourage an environment that is committed to promoting equality, diversity, working inclusively and valuing the differences that individuals can bring to the workplace. We uphold these principles in our organisational values and behaviours towards each other, the people we support and our partners. We welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexuality, or other personal circumstances.
Venture-People comply with Equal Opportunities and Diversity Legislation and accepted Codes of Best Practice.
Benefits
* You will receive full induction training and continued professional development
* Excellent support from experienced management and the wider clinical leadership team
* Access to our EAP program offering telephone support, full counselling services and discounts on a range of shops and services
* A wellbeing day in addition to annual leave, to use however you wish
* 28 days annual leave, increasing with length of service up to 5 additional days
* Staff recognition and rewards.
* Monthly workshops with our Clinical Team as well as access to our library of previous sessions