About the Role
Full-time | Brighton | Meaningful, Person‑Centred Support
Are you empathetic, patient, and passionate about empowering women with mental health needs to live safely and independently? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
We are seeking a dedicated Support Worker to join our female‑only accommodation service in Brighton. This is a rewarding, hands‑on role supporting women on their journey towards confidence, stability, and independence.
The role is based on a rolling rota to include evening and weekend shifts. Sleep in minimum 1 shift per week paid additionally at £80 per shift
Sponsorship is not available with this role
Job Opportunity
💛 About the Service
Our accommodation service provides safe, supportive housing for women experiencing mental health challenges. Many of our clients have faced trauma, instability, or long periods in hospital. Through a person‑centred and psychologically informed approach, we help each woman rebuild her life on her own terms.
✨ What You’ll Be Doing
You will play a key role in promoting wellbeing and safety, offering both emotional and practical support. Your day-to-day work may include:
* Building trusting, therapeutic relationships through patience and empathy.
* Supporting women with daily living skills, social inclusion, and confidence‑building.
* Creating and reviewing person‑centred support plans and dynamic risk assessments.
* Encouraging independence and positive decision‑making.
* Using de‑escalation and trauma‑informed approaches when faced with challenging situations.
* Liaising with mental health teams, community services, and wider support networks.
* Ensuring safety, safeguarding, and adherence to organisational and national policies.
* Working flexibly to meet the needs of the service, including occasional hours outside the normal pattern.
Essential Skills
🌼 What We’re Looking For
This role is ideal for someone who is:
* Calm, compassionate, and able to build supportive relationships with vulnerable women.
* Emotionally resilient and patient, with a genuine commitment to mental health recovery.
* Skilled at supporting people through crisis, challenge, and change.
* Confident in using therapeutic de‑escalation and crisis‑intervention techniques.
* Able to encourage positive participation and empowerment.
* Competent with Microsoft Office and comfortable keeping accurate records.
Desirable but not essential:
Experience in mental health, neurodiversity, trauma‑informed work, community-based services, or supported accommodation.
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