Mental Health Support Worker Immediately Required X4
Duration: End of September
Location: Nottingham
Hours: 37.5 Hour per week, Must be flexible on availability & be willing to work nights/sleep ins
Pay Rate: £10.20 Inclusive of Holiday Pay + £36.78 Inclusive of Holiday Pay for a sleep in
An opening has arisen for a Mental Health Support Worker for a large Housing Association. It is imperative that individuals interested in this post have experience within a Mental Health setting.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Support service users/tenants to express themselves and make informed choices and decisions about their lives in a way that respects their dignity and rights
- Devise and implement individual care and/or support plans with risk assessments that are not risk averse
- Key work named service users
- Carry out or assist in cooking and other domestic/cleaning tasks
- Follow and review care and/or support plans with the service user and record progress of plans
- Assist in the delivery of support to service users who may present behavioural challenge
- Key holding including coordinating other shift staff, administering medications and handling money
- Assume responsibility for safeguarding adults and/or children who have needs for care and support, are experiencing, or are at risk of, abuse or neglect, and as a result of those needs are unable to protect themselves against the abuse or neglect or the risk of it
- Maintain service user records through IT systems or paper records; sharing confidentially with work colleagues and other relevant people as appropriate to provide consistent care and support
- Maintain Health and Safety and day-to-day records of financial transactions and administration; using job specific IT/ technical systems
- Enable service users to make informed choices through joint reviews of Care and/or Support planning and recorded risk assessments
- Maintain a safe and healthy physical environment for service users and colleagues; complying with current infection control policies and procedures and completing relevant Health and Safety training
- Respond to health and safety issues; implementing emergency procedures where necessary
- Work on rota/shift system, including Bank Holidays and weekends and which may include night-time working and sleeping-in duties
The successful candidate will have:
- An enhanced DBS
- Full driving licence with access to a vehicle
- Previous experience working in this position
To discuss this role in more detail and to secure this opportunity, please contact Kimberleigh Parsons on 0121 616 0660 or alternatively email kparsons@venngroup.com
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