Support Worker
| Posting date: | 31 March 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, E5 8RJ |
| Company: | Reed Talent Solutions |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | OH00852-288050 |
Summary
Support worker
At One Housing, we don’t only believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. We also believe that everyone deserves to realise their full potential and lead a fulfilling life.
Our Mental Health team is vital to helping us deliver on this vision. We work to transform the life experience of people with mental health support needs. The support we provide is delivered in a range of settings (like supported housing, assessment centres and outreach) and our customers’ support needs can include psychosis, forensic and personality disorders.
Join our Mental Health team as a Support WorkerThe role
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of support Worker working in Salvesen House as part of a small team supporting customers with Mental health to develop skills through holistic therapy approaches to develop the skills to progress into independent living. Providing care and support to patients through their admission and working to support a smooth discharge.
Location: Hackney
Salary: £26,037.00 per year
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week, Rolling Rota - Early & Late Shifts (Sleep Ins are included in the Rota) Additional sleep allowance will be paid
Your responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out assessments to identify and prioritise needs
- Using SMART goal planning to provide needs led holistic support
- Key work sessions
- Risk assessments
- Creating an environment that promotes opportunities for customers to develop, learn and enable skills towards independence
- Providing a comprehensive support planning service to customers in line with the department’s policies, procedures and approach.
- Ensuring customers are fully informed of their rights and responsibilities regarding the service, and are enabled and empowered to get involved in the running of the service through consultation and participation
What you will need to succeed
We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is friendly, engaged and committed to achieving great outcomes for our customers.
The successful candidate will possess:
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good level of IT skills and literacy
- Knowledge of the Housing Sector
- Experience of providing support to others in a work, voluntary or personal capacity
- A practical solution focussed approach to problem solving
- A good understanding of Mental health, Alcohol and Substance abuse
About us
At One Housing, our people are our strength which is why we work very hard to enable all employees to bring their authentic self to work. This commitment is reflected in our diversity groups support network, our wellbeing initiatives and our employee benefits.
We understand that the different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone.
Apply today for a fulfilling career in our Mental Health team.Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme