Mental Health Senior Support Worker
2 weeks ago
Response Organisation is the largest mental health charity in Oxfordshire that has expanded across the Thames Valley and most recently into Wiltshire. Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellentmental health services, housing, and supported living.
**Do you have the desire to help change lives and an interest in mental health?**
**Mental Health Senior Support Worker** - £22,073 - £24,280 per annum - £11.47 - £12.62 per hour (Salaries vary depending on experiences)
**Hours** - 37 hours per week, Monday - Sunday, inclusive of bank holidays, shifts include mornings, evenings, and weekends and sleep ins.
**Department** - Harwood House, Adult Service Delivery
**Location** - Aylesbury
**What You’ll Be Doing**:
Harwood House is a 24/7 supported living scheme for adults with long term mental health issues. Clients are supported at Harwood House following extended stays on acute psychiatric and rehabilitation wards or are returning closer to home from an out of countyplacement.
**Overall job responsibility**:
- You will provide a safe and comfortable environment for our residents to live and colleagues to work, whilst also empowering Support Workers to feel confident in their role.
- Lead by example and take the role of Shift Lead - ensuring that all members of the team are aware of daily tasks and notes are completed and updated as appropriate.
- Be the first point of contact handling all queries and requests from internal and external partners responding in a timely manner delegating as appropriate,
- Lead in times of incidents in the absence of the manager and deputy, ensuring that policies and procedures are adhered to
- Mentor and support new team members in their role
- Responsible for leading on projects to enhance the service.
- Support the development of person-centred planning, ensuring resident’s plans have meaningful and achievable goals
- Ensure support plans and risk management plans are implemented as necessary, in line with policies and procedures.
- Support residents with medication concordance.
- Undertake an enabling role with the resident in daily tasks such as cleaning, shopping, budgeting, and household tasks that promote independent living.
- Lead and promote social inclusion work by introducing residents to leisure activities, new interests, education, or volunteering
- Maintain clean, safe working environments and communal areas
- Working with clinical teams, attending CPAs and multi-disciplinary team meetings
**The Successful Applicant**:
Our main priority for all our roles at Response is to find people that can live our values every day - **Caring, Safe, Creative and Aspirational.**Essential criteria:
- Awareness of legal frameworks such as Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005
- A good understanding of different types of mental health illnesses and the level of care some residents may require
- GCSE Maths and English, being IT literate due to the volume of paperwork required to be kept up to date
- Good organisational, communication, written and verbal skills and can work calmly in difficult and challenging situations
**What We Offer**:
- 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Blue Light card and other discounted shopping
- EAP - with access to free counselling
- Cycle to Work Scheme (after probation)
- Enhanced family friendly leave
- Professional qualification sponsorship and study leave
- £500 refer a friend bonus scheme
- Optional health cash care plan with money off prescriptions and treatments
- Wellbeing hub and mental wellbeing support app - approved by NHS
- Free flu jabs
You will receive the training and confidence to use core therapeutic talk therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Strength-based Trauma Informed Care and Mutual Aid to provide the best possible support to our clients.
Our employees and clients come from all over the world, we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture and are registered as a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. All our roles requirean enhanced DBS check, two references from most recent employers and you must have the right to work in the UK.
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