Together for Mental Wellbeing
Full Time Support Workers Lucas Road
Full Time Support Workers Lucas Road
SudburyField-based
PermanentFull-Time
£24,968.26per annum
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Description
Job Purpose
We are looking for a motivated individual with experience of caring or supporting individuals with mental health issues to work alongside the residents, putting them at the heart of all we do.
Key Responsibilities
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Know-how
Practicalities
Apply through our website.
We are looking for a motivated individual with experience of caring or supporting individuals with mental health issues to work alongside the residents, putting them at the heart of all we do.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain relationships of trust with service users, to build engagement
- Help service users to set, prioritise and achieve goals, managing their tenancies and move-ons
- Work flexibly with service users in their homes and in the community
- Carry out assessments and determine urgency of service user needs
- Work with professionals from other agencies, and make onward referrals, linking service users into community opportunities
- Carry out risk assessments, in order to keep service users safe and improve the quality of our support
- Attend placement reviews
- Work with service users on a 1:1 basis and in groups
- Assist service users to; deal with financial issues and navigate the benefits and education systems; manage friendships and family relationships; manage their medication, in accordance with Together procedures
- Accompany service users to appointments
- Assist service users to undertake domestic tasks such as cooking and cleaning, ensuring adherence to infection control (training provided)
- Assist service users with personal care as and when required
- Adhere to the Together policy on lone working
- Make timely records which are concise, accurate, written for the service user to understand, using Together computer-based systems
- Write clear word processed and handwritten reports (training provided) and records in English
- Participate in mandatory and job-related courses and learning activities
- Maintain professional boundaries in all aspects of work with service users
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Demonstrate a non-judgemental attitude
- Able to be empathetic towards service users and create a trusting environment
- Ability to work alongside individuals experiencing mental distress
- Able to work in partnership with service users
- Able to establish and maintain professional boundaries in working with service users
- Able to establish and maintain a safe environment
- Willing and able to undertake domestic tasks with, and for, service users as necessary
- Demonstrate problem-solving skills relating to welfare benefits, education and relationships
- Open to - and willing to participate in - formal and informal job-related learning
- Willing and able to collaborate with colleagues and other organisations
- Able to use email and computerised systems for service user records and reports
- Able to produce clear records and reports in English
- Committed to work in ways which reflect Together's values
- Safeguards the wellbeing of clients and colleagues at all times
- Aware of, and adheres to, Together's policies regarding Confidentiality and GDPR
- Aware of, and adheres to, Together's policies regarding Equalities
Know-how
- Experience in supporting vulnerable individuals gained from paid work and/or voluntary and/or life experience
- Lived experience of mental distress (desirable)
- Basic competence in the use of email and word processing software
- NVQ Level II in Health and Social Care, or equivalent (desirable)
Practicalities
- Able to travel
- Able to work a varying pattern of shifts
- DBS clearance
- Minimum age 18 plus
Apply through our website.
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