Senior Mental Health Worker

2 weeks ago


Mendip, United Kingdom Second Step Full time

**Second Step is a leading mental health charity in the South West offering housing, support and hope to thousands of people with mental health and complex needs. Our goal is to inspire hope and deliver change for everybody and every community we work with.**
- The Family Safeguarding Team is an innovative partnership model between Somerset County Council and a network of voluntary sector organisations. The wider Family Safeguarding Team is comprised of substance misuse, domestic abuse, adult mental health workers and children’s social workers. Workers from specialist organisations join together to form one team working with families. The Family Safeguarding Team focuses on working to develop parents’ strengths to positively change their behaviour and relationships in order to improve their children’s lives. By assisting parents to make positive changes more children can stay at home with their birth family and thrive, not just survive.

**Family Safeguarding **is part of the Somerset Alliance - Open Mental Health. Open Mental Health is a ground-breaking model bringing together NHS, Statutory and Voluntary agencies to deliver targeted and holistic mental health support. Open Mental Health connects people to community resources, builds resilience and improves wellbeing through targeted interventions and a coordinated approach around the individual - with an ethos of “no wrong door”. The Family Safeguarding service is supported by a Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Family Therapist to offer support to both clients and colleagues.

**About You**
- You will need to:

- Have a minimum of two years’ experience supporting people with complex needs, including mental health, within a community setting
- Be a good communicator
- Be great at building trust with those you work with
- Be keen to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Be able to work on your own initiative whilst being part of a larger dispersed team
- Have strong organisational skills
- Be confident lone working
- Be IT literate and able to accurately record and share information
- Have a driving licence and access to a vehicle due to the geography of the Mendip area

**Hours**:

- 37 hours per week.
- Part time roles will be considered.
- Core hours are 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday.

**Location**:

- You will be supporting clients across Mendip and will be required to travel to deliver support. Mileage is paid at £0.45 per mile. There is the opportunity to undertake some home working however due to the nature of the role this is limited.

**Annual leave**:

- 26 days annual leave - plus Bank Holidays increasing to a maximum of 30 days with an additional 1 day’s annual leave accruing for each year of employment.

**Contract**:

- We have one vacancy for a fixed term contract (maternity leave cover) expiring January 2024; however there is potential for the role to be extended beyond this date. We are also recruiting for a part-time Family Safeguarding worker on a permanent basis.
- For more information on the role and person specification please see the Role Profile attached to this advert. To open the Role Profile please click on ‘2 Documents available’ at the top of the screen.
- For an informal chat about this role - please contact Di Trigger - _

**Closing Date**: 1st May 2023

**Interview date**: tbc


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