Housing Support Worker

4 months ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Adferiad Recovery Full time

**Contract**: 30 hours, permanent

**Salary**: £21,507.75 pro rata (£17,206.60) plus enhancements for unsocial hours up to £3.38 per hour.

**Location**: Cardiff

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time Support Worker to join our team working to support and improve the lives of people with serious mental illness, in our new supported living model.

We are looking for a compassionate and professional individual to aid in the provision of personal domiciliary care and support to people experiencing mental ill-health in Cardiff. These supported living projects are for people to have their own individual tenancies in a block or flats within the vicinity of each other, with each person receiving an individual care and support package. 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.

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.

The services will operate over 7 days per week and the shift pattern will include lone working and sleep in night shifts. Unsocial hours will be compensated up to +£3.38 per hour.

**Main duties/responsibilities**:

- 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:

- Feeling secure within their home
- Increasing independent living skills
- Using appliances safely and maintaining reasonable domestic standards
- Personal finance, budgeting, and accessing benefits
- Mental and physical healthcare
- Self-management of medication
- Attending appointments
- Visitors and their access to individual’s property
- Building and maintaining relationships with neighbours, families, friends, professionals
- Developing skills and interests
- 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 Agored Cymru accredited Medication Training
- Support the Service Manager to ensure that individual needs assessments, risk assessments, support plans are all up to date and to offer practical advice and advocacy to service users.
- Liaise with relevant services, organisations and agencies with regards to accessing additional support for service users.
- Working with service users on a variety of issues in order to impact positively on issues relating to housing, employment, training and education and social isolation.

**Person Specification**:

- We are looking for someone with experience in providing care and support services to people with a serious mental illness or within a social care setting.
- We would also consider significant experience of personally using, or caring for someone, using mental health services in a serious mental health setting.

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 30 per week

**Salary**: £11.00 per hour

Expected hours: 30 per week

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Night shift

Application question(s):

- Do you have a full UK driver's licence, with access to a vehicle for work purposes?

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: AG045


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