Mental Health Support Worker

2 weeks ago


Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom Adferiad Recovery Full time

**Contract**: 30 hours, permanent

**Salary**:£10.25 per hour

**Based in**:The Vale of Glamorgan

We are looking for professional and caring individuals to assists people who are experiencing mental health issues and have housing related support needs that live within the Vale of Glamorgan.

Reaching individuals in their own home and in the community, we tailor our support to their individual needs between 9.00 am to 5pm Monday to Friday. Staff will be expected to be flexible and work across the hours and days of service delivery. This dedicated team provides high quality and effective support that focuses on strengths and goals within a framework of reducing harm, achieving tenancy sustainment, and living independently.

**Role Duties**:

- Manage a client caseload, and complete individual needs assessments, risk assessments, support plans and offer practical advice and advocacy to service users.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with individuals with complex needs to ensure successful support, to address the persons accommodation and wider support needs.
- Support service users to exercise informed choices about their lives where possible and to enhance their social skills and participate in their community.
- Support 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.
- 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.

**Person Criteria**:
There are no specific qualifications but there must be evidence of commitment to personal and career development relevant to the post.

**Experience**:

- Must have experience of providing care and support services to individuals with complex needs in a community setting (such as those who are homeless/at risk of homelessness, offending behaviour, mental health, domestic abuse, substance misuse).
- Must have experience of partnership working.

Full driving licence and full access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.

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

**Salary**: £20,041.31 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Reference ID: AG002



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