Senior Support Worker - Mental Health
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,809.30 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 July 2025 |
| Location: | Barry, The Vale of Glamorgan |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Adferiad Recovery |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | AF214 |
Summary
Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 30 hours per week
Salary: £25,809.30 per annum (pro rata)
Based at: Barry
Role Purpose: Adferiad provides a floating support service for individuals living in the County of Vale of Glamorgan who have long term, enduring mental illnesses who require housing-related support. The project is funded by the Vale of Glamorgan County Coucil Supporting Team. The focus of the project is to develop or sustain an individual’s capacity to live in their own accommodation and achieve increasing levels of independence. Adferiad staff support referred individuals with housing-related support needs either to support them to find a new home or enabling individuals to live independently in their own home.
Under the direction of the Senior Service Manager, you will work as part of the team and lone work to support and improve the lives of those individuals by providing high quality and effective housing related support service. You will utilise person centred approaches to set goals, review and develop support plans that best meets the individual’s needs, which focusses on people’s strengths and sets goals of sustain their tenancies and live independently.
In addition to managing a caseload, the position of Senior involves taking responsibility of delegated tasks such as processing referrals from point of receipt to the delivery of support, to completing HSG Outcomes and allocating tasks to support staff. The role will include, completing reviews of support, ensuring all client files are up to date and that the service delivery and paperwork is compliant with internal and external quality standards, essential admin and overseeing the management of staff and the project as directed by the Service Manager.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: http://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=492ffa7f-a4c6-4e15-ab80-917d9f42cb93
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org
Hours: 30 hours per week
Salary: £25,809.30 per annum (pro rata)
Based at: Barry
Role Purpose: Adferiad provides a floating support service for individuals living in the County of Vale of Glamorgan who have long term, enduring mental illnesses who require housing-related support. The project is funded by the Vale of Glamorgan County Coucil Supporting Team. The focus of the project is to develop or sustain an individual’s capacity to live in their own accommodation and achieve increasing levels of independence. Adferiad staff support referred individuals with housing-related support needs either to support them to find a new home or enabling individuals to live independently in their own home.
Under the direction of the Senior Service Manager, you will work as part of the team and lone work to support and improve the lives of those individuals by providing high quality and effective housing related support service. You will utilise person centred approaches to set goals, review and develop support plans that best meets the individual’s needs, which focusses on people’s strengths and sets goals of sustain their tenancies and live independently.
In addition to managing a caseload, the position of Senior involves taking responsibility of delegated tasks such as processing referrals from point of receipt to the delivery of support, to completing HSG Outcomes and allocating tasks to support staff. The role will include, completing reviews of support, ensuring all client files are up to date and that the service delivery and paperwork is compliant with internal and external quality standards, essential admin and overseeing the management of staff and the project as directed by the Service Manager.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: http://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=492ffa7f-a4c6-4e15-ab80-917d9f42cb93
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org
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