Senior Mental Health Support Worker

1 week ago


Thatcham, United Kingdom Response Organisation Full time

Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellent mental health services, housing, and supported living.

**Do you have the desire to empower and promote independence and an interest in mental health?**

**Senior Mental Health Support Worker** - £26,500 - £29,500 per annum (Salaries vary depending on experiences)

**Service** - Carramar, Thatcham, Berkshire.

**What You’ll Be Doing**:
Response is looking for an enthusiastic, caring person to join their dedicated team at Carramar. The Carramar team focuses on providing care for clients in a 24 hour, 7 day a week supported housing service in Thatcham. The Carramar team creates a comfortable, safe and pleasant environment while helping residents work towards more independent living in the future.

Our clients really appreciate the passion from our Support Workers too: _“The staff are caring, kind, compassionate and understanding. They support me and care for me and are first class. I am happier now than I have been in years.” _Client in Adult Services.

**Overall job responsibility**:Further detail can be viewed in the Job Description.**
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:

- 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**:

- 25 days annual leave and standard bank and public holidays.
- Blue Light card and other discounted shopping.
- Employee Assistant Programme - 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.



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