Supported Accommodation Housing Support Worker

5 months ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Adferiad Recovery Full time

Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues. We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.

**Hours**:Bank Contract

**Salary**:£11.00 per hour with additional payments for unsocial hours; weekends; Bank Holidays

**Based at**:Cardiff

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of our dedicated Adferiad team working in the provision of Personal Domiciliary Care and Support for People with secondary mental health diagnosis. The Adferiad projects are registered with Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW). The care & support is provided to people who have their own individual tenancies, with each person receiving their support from Adferiad staff to maintain their tenancy, independence.

The two separate supported living projects are located in the vicinity of each other in Cardiff. One project is situated in a building which incorporates 5 self-contained apartments, with a sixth apartment as a staff office / occupant’s communal room. The second project is a block of 12 self-contained flats, one flat being the staff office / sleep over room and occupants’ communal area. This community based supported living service supports a preventative and reablement agenda and the wellbeing initiatives as identified within Welsh Government policies and the Social Services and Well-being Act (Wales) 2014.

The service operates 24 hours / 7 days per week, with a shift pattern, including sleep in night shifts (and possibly waking nights). Shifts will include staff lone working.

Under the direction of the Service Manager, work as part of team or lone working to support and improve the lives of people with a serious mental illness.

By contributing to the delivery of Adferiad’s Registered Services in Cardiff, in line with our commitment to principles of empowerment, self-management and recovery and ensuring compliance with internal and external quality standards inspection and regulation (including Care Inspectorate Wales).

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:
All Adferiad Support Workers will be given the qualifications, experience and competencies commensurate with the levels of care they are expected to provide and in accordance with the Care Inspectorate legislation for Domiciliary Care.
- Provide a variety of person centred, tailored interventions that support individuals with complex needs to find and sustain accommodation and develop their independent living skills.
- Supporting and assisting occupants with the following:

- Increase independent living skills.
- Mental and physical healthcare.
- Building and maintaining relationships with neighbours, families, friends, professionals.
- Pursuing training/educational/employment/leisure & recreational goals and aspirations.
- Signposting, joint work and referral on to other specialist agencies, intervening in crisis situations.
- Developing links with the local community-based resources and opportunities.
- Recognition of and coping strategies in respect of risk, triggers and avoiding relapse.
- Supporting individuals, if required, with:

- All aspects of personal care.
- Mobility and transfers - all staff are trained in accordance with the All-Wales Manual Handling Passport.
- Administration of prescribed oral medication - all staff must complete accredited Medication Training.
- Work with each individual to achieve their aspirations and the goals of the project, employing creative and innovative methods to meet these outcomes and, through staff’s own experience and resources, bring added value to the support role.
- Working with individuals in a timely and task specific manner on a variety of issues in order to impact positively on issues relating to housing, employment, training and education and social isolation.
- Liaise with relevant services, organisations and agencies with regards to accessing additional support for service users.
- Practice homeless prevention, tenancy sustainment, Psychologically Informed Approaches, Solution Focus Practice, harm reduction, and co-production.
- To provide a service to individuals, that complements and enhances the service provision of community services, local housing providers and other agencies.
- Support service users to exercise informed choices about their lives where possible and to enhance their social skills and participate in their community.
- Support the Service Manager & Senior to ensure that individual needs assessments, risk assessments, support plans are reviewed regularly and are up to date.
- To carry out all other tasks commensurate with the role.

**Person Specification -**
- No specific qualifications are required however NVQ competencies in He

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