Support Worker

**Support worker**
At One Housing, we don’t only believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. We also believe that everyone deserves to realise their full potential and lead a fulfilling life.
Our Mental Health team is vital to helping us deliver on this vision. We work to transform the life experience of people with mental health support needs. The support we provide is delivered in a range of settings (like supported housing, assessment centresand outreach) and our customers’ support needs can include psychosis, forensic and personality disorders.
**Join our Mental Health team as a Support Worker**
We have spent the last 10 years designing our services to be fully psychologically informed. Most of our services have specialist therapeutic input and colleagues have access to specialised mental health training delivered by MH professionals. All our servicesprovide regular reflective practice spaces to our colleagues to formulate complex cases and find constructive ways forward. All these measures make us the ideal partner for NHS trusts across London with whom we deliver several integrated services.
We believe in providing care and support to our clients that will enable them to make informed decisions about their life that will increase their sense of wellbeing: this might be greater independence, better coping strategies or a richer network and senseof self achievement.
We offer you the chance to develop your own skills through regular line management supervision, reflective practice, access to a ten-day course on relevant mental health topics and working together with your specialist colleagues.
We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.
**The role**
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of **Support Officer.**
**Camden Park House is a registered care home for Mental Health customers. We have 13 customers in our supported living scheme.**
**Salary**: £24,190 per annum
**Location**: Camden
**Hours**: Rolling Rota, Early & Late Shifts (7.30am-3.30pm / 8am-4pm / 1pm-9pm / 2pm-10pm) You will be required to work 1 in 3 weekends
Your responsibilities will include:

- Encouraging customers to participate in social inclusion activities
- Be there to empower and teach/show how to cook, maintain personal hygiene, budget, doing laundry etc
- Carry out assessment to identify and prioritize needs.
- Provide a comprehensive support planning service to customers in line with the department’s policies, procedures and approach.
- Set up and maintain customer files and ensure that accurate and up to date records are kept of support provided to customers.
- Key work sessions and risk assessments
- Medication administration

**What you will need succeed**
We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is friendly, engaged and committed to achieving great outcomes for our customers.
- Posses experience within a support living environment.
- Have an understanding, knowledge or experience around Mental Health and different diagnosis.
- Be empathetic and non-judgemental.
- Have support Officer / support Assistant experience
- Have experience with working with challenging behaviours

**The offer**
- **Your holidays are important to us.** Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.**Lean travel.** Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans...