Community Support Worker

**VRF 110708**

**Community Support Worker**

**Shropshire**

**18.5 hours per week**

**£12,121.20 per annum**

**About the role**

Due to continual growth within our Shropshire Mental Health services, we are currently looking to recruit a Community Support Worker. The role will be based in the community where we currently support customers in Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Market Drayton, and surrounding areas of Shropshire. Our customers are supported within their own homes and our supported tenancy services. Our aim is to provide a person-centred approach for everyone.

Demonstrating a commitment to safeguarding in line with policy and procedures you will support customers with life skills and empower them to build successful relationships within their community as they develop skills to better manage their health and well-being and increase levels of independence as they grow in confidence and manage their tenancy

**The benefits;**
- 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
- Birthday leave
- New Home leave
- Life assurance (3 x salary)
- Employee Assistance programme
- Employee Wellbeing programme
- Flexible Working options

**About You**

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who would like to join our team to deliver good quality service to vulnerable adults.
- Able to work flexibly within a 365-day rota system, which will include evenings, weekend working and bank holidays
- Experience of working with customers with mental health needs including - self harm, personality disorder, autism, schizophrenia, or personal experience
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
- Experience of professional partnership-working
- Deliver customer focused support in line with customer hours and service rotas
- Ability to create and maintain personalised support plans and risk assessments
- Ability to use Microsoft IT programmes
- NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or working towards
- Must be able to drive and have own transport

Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £37m and owns assets close than £190m.

The Group consists of;
- Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
- Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering trauma informed care and support services. These services include supporting people within registered care, domiciliary care, people with learning difficulties, those with mental health needs, young people at risk, older people, BME groups, people at risk of being homeless, those seeking employability, education and training opportunities and those fleeing domestic abuse.

Trident offers their employees learning and development opportunities and wants to invest in their development and career growth. Through our apprenticeship scheme, we offer various courses in areas that will help support employees within their roles and for their further development.

We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a person-centred organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.

By joining Trident Group, you will have the opportunity to join our Diverse Voices Steering Group to ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion remains at the heart of everything we do.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

- ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- communicating and promoting vacancies
- offering an interview to disabled people
- anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
- at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

**Applying**

All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.