Female Mental Health Support Worker

Female Mental Health Support Worker

**Pay**: £15.00 Standard Rate - £21.00 per hour Bank Holidays

**Refer a Friend Scheme - £100 awarded (T&C's apply)**

**Company description**

We are a specialist care provider that supports individuals who have a learning disability and are on the autism spectrum. We provide a flexible, person centred approach with a focus on supporting those who display significant behaviours of concern.

We offer a broad spectrum of flexible personalised care carried out by our multi-disciplinary team. Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) Practitioners and Learning disability nurses offer a wide range of skills and experience in specialised assessments, planning and delivering the right support.

Here at LDA Care we don’t anticipate ‘smooth sailing’ with the people we are serving. The individuals we support may have experienced abuse, rejection and trauma. Some individuals may exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress, have experienced institutionalisation, and may have missed out on everyday processes of socialisation. Each has inherent and acquired ‘disabilities', however, experience tells us with the right skilled relationship-based support and the opportunity to experience a rich and meaningful life, these individuals can have and be so much more.

LDA Care are looking for people who will demonstrate the competence (or enthusiasm to acquire the competence) to provide excellent personalised social, and sometimes clinical level behavioural, support to people with learning disabilities and autism in their own homes.

This is the part where you come in, come and join us delivering **holistic **care, achieving great **outcomes **and enabling **meaningful environments**

**H**olistic

**O**utcomes

**M**eaningful

**E**nvironments

We currently have a great opportunity for dedicated Mental Health Support Workers to work with an individual who has a learning disability, autism and mental health support needs. The individual will be living on their own so we are looking for Mental Health Support Workers who can provide 360 wrap around support that covers all aspects of their life.

**Role Description**

We currently have a great opportunity for dedicated Mental Health Support Workers to work with this young person. The individual will be living on their own so we are looking for Care Workers who can provide 2:1 support throughout the day and night.

To be part of their team, they are looking for the following qualities from a team member:

- Provide support during the good times and the difficult periods our individual faces in their daily life.
- Have a good understanding of Mental Health and how this can impact daily living or have working with in a mental health setting
- Have an understanding of Autism or have had experience working with Autistic people, and that you understand that being autistic is an important part of who they are. Be a positive advocate for them
- Be consistent - do what you say you say you will if you can’t explain why.
- Be prepared to motivate them in a supportive manner
- Be patient and understanding encourage them on the difficult days
- Have a fun and kind personality who will go on adventures
- Work with them to solve issues and over come day to day tasks
- Come to work to “Get to know me” as that is what is needed to support them
- Work as part of the team who deliver amazing person centred care
- Think out side the box
- Be able to have a laugh and joke but have set standards and boundaries

**They like**:

- Animals and more Animals _(be prepared to be around animals, go and see animals and talk about animals)_
- Gem stones and Echo systems _(don’t worry if you’re do not know they will show and explain them to you )_
- Art and crafts
- Music
- Walking _(Please have the energy to keep up with them, walking is an activity that would be required, but they will wait while you get your breath if you’re not the fastest of walkers_)
- Shopping _(you need a keen eye for bargains at vintage shops)_
- Pride

**What's in it for you?**
- Contract
- Great Pay
- Pension Enrolment
- Standard Sick Pay
- Free training
- Weekly pay
- Paid holiday
- Ongoing Training / Coaching throughout your role
- Opportunities to progress & develop

**COVID-19 considerations**:
All support workers must adhere to government guidelines about their injections.

**Schedule**:

- 12 hour shift - 09:00 to 21:00 / 21:00 to 09:00
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
- Overtime

**Licence/Certification**:

- Autism (preferred)
- Driving Licence (preferred)

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

**Salary**: £15.00-£21.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- Autism: 1 year (preferred)
- Mental health: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- UK Driving Licence (preferred)

Shift availability:

- Night shift (required)
- Day shift (preferred)

Work Location: On the road