Mental Health Support Worker

2 weeks ago

St Albans, United Kingdom New Directions FSC Full time

**MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT WORKER - NEW DIRECTIONS**

**The Job**

As a mental health support worker you will be working within a team delivering care and support to adults with mental health diagnoses in our supported living services. As a mental health support worker, you will be supporting them to undertake daily tasks, attending appointments, providing emotional support, and empowering them to achieve their goals. A mental health support worker will also be involved in:

- Facilitating a programme of therapeutic activities
- Co-produce support plans and risk management plans with your clients
- Facilitate 1:1 key work sessions with clients
- Engage in clinical reflective practice sessions to reflect on experience and develop your skills
- Give clients the tools to enable them to be empowered and independent

**Benefits for our Mental Health Support Workers**:

- Fixed Hours Contract - ensuring a consistent month on month income. None of our Support Workers are on a contracted monthly hours contract
- Flexible shift working
- All training is provided
- Competitive rates of pay
- Extensive learning, development, and training programme
- Opportunities for part and fully funded degrees and further education
- Headspace Premium - all our colleagues have access to the Headspace Premium App
- Sodexo - a Companywide perks and benefits platform
- Benefits scheme including discounts on holidays, fashion, gifts, groceries and much more
- Discounted Gym Membership
- Online resources and apps providing lifestyle support, including expert financial/legal advice and physical/emotional wellbeing
- Access to expert counsellors providing confidential advice and support via an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Cost of DBS covered by us
- Refer-a-friend scheme
- Team Away Days
- Significant commitment to staff development

**Our Mental Health Support Workers ideally will have these qualities**:

- Be passionate about making a positive difference to people’s lives
- Have strong humanistic values
- Work with a person-centred approach
- Reflective and can work therapeutically
- Good communication skills

**Why work at New Directions?**

Our mission statement is to ‘empower people to achieve their goals and aspirations’ we live this statement withboth our clients and staff.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC, our humanistic ethos values the personal and professional development of ourteams, so we commit substantial resources to training and developing everyone that we work with.

Our Support Workers, clients and family members benefit from a significant spectrum of training courses tailored to individual needs, skill sets and career aspirations.

**Working Hours**:
**Experienced Mental Health Support Workers welcome, but also those wanting a career change are more than welcome as we provide a comprehensive induction and training package.
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**Salary**: £10.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift

**Experience**:

- Support Worker: 1 year (preferred)

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