Mental Health Support Worker

Do you have an interest in supporting adults with Mental Health conditions to live with less restriction and greater independence? Are you enthusiastic, resilient, and driven to enrich and make a difference in the lives of these people? Are you looking for flexibility in your working hours with enhanced weekly pay?

We are actively seeking Mental Health Support Workers to join our team to work in a facility is a 47 bedded unit secure locked unit. The service provides support to adults with complex mental health illnesses. The hospital provides high-quality assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services are over 18’s with complex mental health needs, serious mental illnesses including treatment-resistant presentations, and challenging behaviour.

**Overview**:

- Title: Mental Health Support Worker
- Location: Pontypridd
- Job Type: Flexible agency work and block bookings
- Shifts: Flexible pattern available, pick and choose the shifts you want every week 7:30AM - 8PM / 7:30PM - 8AM
- Pay: £11.68 per hour for days and night shifts (including holiday pay)
- Immediate starts available

**Benefits**:

- Excellent Rates of pay, weekly pay, and no payroll charges
- Free food while on shift
- Variety of work in different social care and healthcare settings
- Mobile Booking App for communicating shift availability
- Support from a specialist consultant
- Free online training and subsidised practical training (TMVA,PMVA, PBM)
- Agency worker of the month prize £50
- Entry into our Golden Ticket draw to win £500 every quarter
- 24-hour registration - register from the comfort of your own home
- Holiday pay
- paid weekly or accumulated in a holiday pot
- Contributed pension

**The role**:
What you’ll be doing as a Mental Health Support Worker

You will be required to provide residential and therapeutic care to all patients, many of whom can present with significant cognitive problems, challenging behaviour and both physical and psychiatric comorbidities. Your day-to-day support will enable them to achieve greater independence and self-responsibility in preparation for stepping down to community placement and social integration. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will work with respect and integrity to help deliver high-quality treatment and rehabilitation to each of our patients, at every stage of their illness.

What you’ll need to be successful as a Mental Health Support Worker
- A desire to create positive outcomes for adults with Mental Health issues
- Empathetic, caring and resilient nature
- At least 6 months experience of working within a healthcare setting
- Hold a current Enhanced DBS on the update service or are willing to obtain one
- The right to work in the UK

Extra Training Needed:

- TMVA
- Mental Health & Learning Disability Awareness
- Medication Awareness
- Equality & Diversity
- Restraint Awareness

If you do not have the required training it is mandatory that you attend our specialist 3-day PMVA training course. This course usually costs £250 or more. We are able to offer this to you at a highly discounted price of £75 (We pay the remainder).

Interested? If you think you’re right for this Mental Health Support Worker role, then click the ‘apply’ button below

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary contract, Temp to perm, Freelance
Contract length: 6 months
Part-time hours: 20-48 per week

**Salary**: From £11.68 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Discounted or free food
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Every weekend
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- No weekends
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care (preferred)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: POHTE7543

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