Housing Support Worker

**Hours**:16 - 30 hour and BANK contracts available to suit your availability
**Salary**: £10.25 p/h (£11.49 with annual leave accruement)
**Based at**: Cardiff

**Job Purpose**:
We are looking for caring and professional people to support and improve the lives of people with serious mental illness.

The post holder will aid in the provision of Personal Domiciliary Care and Support to People experiencing mental ill-health in Cardiff. This supported living model is one in which people have 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 service will operate over 7 days per week and the shift pattern will include lone working and possibly sleep in night shifts.

**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:
Ø All aspects of personal care

Ø Mobility and transfers - all staff are trained in accordance with the All-Wales Manual Handling Passport.

Ø 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.
- 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 in the context of the supporting people initiative.
- Working with service users on issues in order to impact positively on issues relating to housing, employment, training and education and social isolation.
- Support service users to exercise informed choices about their lives where possible and to enhance their social skills and participate in their community.
- Help service users to identify the areas of support needed and identify the best option of support based on ongoing needs as outlined in their individual Support Plans.

**Person Specification**:
**Experience**:
Experience of providing care and support services to people with a serious mental illness. OR
Experience of providing care and support services within a social care setting. OR A significant experience of personally using mental health services in a serious mental health setting. OR
A significant experience of caring for someone using mental health services in a serious mental illness service setting. OR
Experience working as a volunteer on a regular weekly basis with people with a serious mental illness.

**The post holder must hold a full UK driver's licence with access to a vehicle for work purposes.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Freelance
Part-time hours: 0-30 per week

**Salary**: £10.25-£11.49 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

Reference ID: H131 and H158