Mental Health Support Worker

**Role**: _Mental Health Recovery Support Workers_

**Location**:_Brent - Greater, London_

**Salary**: _£23, 550 per annum_

**Hours**:_37.5 hours per week on a weekly rota basis across Monday to Sunday_

**Contract**: _Permanent_

We have an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Support Worker to join our services based in Brent, London, providing practical support to residents and being responsible for supporting service users to lead more fulfilling lives. Our Brent Step Down Services currently provides recovery focused services to men and women with long term mental health difficulties.

**About the Role**:
As a Recovery Support Worker will be responsible for developing flexible and realistic support packages and give practical advice and information, as well as coordinate pathways to more appropriate accommodation to service users. You will also empower and support them on their journey to independent living, whilst along the way help to make each day of their lives as fulfilling and meaningful as possible.

You will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, in a shift pattern including weekends, bank holidays, so you’ll need to be flexible with the hours you are able to work.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Implement the service’s policies and procedures in order to deliver the overall programme using a recovery focused approach.
- Provide key work, risk assessment and support planning for service users to help successful recovery focused achievement of their personal goals.
- Deliver life skills training and support to prepare service users for successful independent living.
- Encourage service users to establish social networks and undertake meaningful activities to assist them to develop positive coping mechanisms and to socially integrate.
- Develop resettlement options for service users and assist them to successfully move on to a more appropriate long-term housing option.

**Experience Required**:

- Experience of delivering a recovery focused service to vulnerable adults with support needs, including complex needs
- Experience of interpreting support plans and risk assessments
- Understanding of the connection between substance misuse and mental health
- Knowledge of recovery focused support and managing complex cases and challenging behaviour.
- Understanding of the importance to support Service Users with their Medication and to move towards self-medication.

**Benefits of working with us**:

- Excellent core and on-going training aligned with personal development plan
- Access to employee assistance programme
- 25 days holiday increasing to 26 days after 2 years and increasing 1 day per year up to 30 days annual leave
- Medi-cash which includes the following:

- Discount gym membership
- Routine eye tests, glasses and contact lenses
- Dental treatment via NHS or Private
- Physiotherapy, Head Massage and a range of other therapies
- Life Assurance

If you wish to work with this challenging yet rewarding client group then this could be a perfect opportunity for you
- All successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check and provide employment references covering the last 5 years period including one from your most recent employer._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23,550.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free or subsidised travel
- Gym membership
- Sick pay
- Wellness programmes

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)