Mental Health Support Worker
An excellent Support Provider in Bristol are recruiting for a Mental Health Support Worker to join their Mental Health and complex needs accommodation based service.
Location: Bristol
Contract duration: 3 months temporary to permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Salary: £12.86 via Umbrella
Vacancy ref number: J62871 / 63032
Day to day responsibilities include:
- Build trusting and collaborative relationships with service users
- Maintain regular contact with service users and provide practical support and assistance as appropriate
- Contribute towards the co-production, implementation and review of recovery plans, crisis plans and other self-management tools e.g. Wellness Recovery Action Plan, in partnership with service users
- Build strong partnerships with other agencies such as Health and Social Care, Early Intervention in Psychosis and Assessment and Recovery Teams and Hospital Wards
- Have up-to-date safeguarding training and ensure that Safeguarding policies and procedures are fully adhered to and that a Think Family approach is embedded within working practice
- Assist service users to make informed decisions about their emotional wellbeing, maximising their independence and providing advocacy role where appropriate
- Manage own workload and time effectively, ensuring up to date and clear record keeping in line with policies, making best use of supervision, training and staff development
- Collaborate with other team members to maximise service performance, meet targets and Service Level Agreements and promote effective communication and teamwork
- Maintain hope and optimism for the individual with high expectations for recovery and use lived experience (if appropriate) to positively support the individual’s recovery
Essential criteria include:
- Experience working with individual with complex needs or Mental Health conditions
- Current enhanced DBS
To apply for this role or to find out about other Housing jobs, please contact Ashleigh Clarke or Paulo Davis from the Bristol Housing recruitment team on 0117 930 8760 or aclarke@venngroup.com
Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.