Support Worker

Support Worker

Working Hours: 37.5 hours a week (5 days), Full-time
Salary: £26,071
Contract: Permanent

Looking for an opportunity to make a real difference at one of London’s leading mental health charities?

We know that housing and mental health are often linked. Poor mental health makes it hard to cope with housing problems, and housing problems can make mental health worse. With this in mind, we are proud to present this exciting role in our Floating Support Service. This service support people to live independently, and continues to be the only floating support service in the London Borough of Wandsworth. We’re looking for a mental health professional to join our passionate and dynamic team. You will be responsible for a caseload of vulnerable service users who you will deliver high quality effective support services to. We’re a motivated, engaged, and efficient team, all working towards the same ambition. We’re committed to hiring diversely and inclusively, and to supporting those that join us to develop skills and reach their potential. We’re especially keen to hear from those who are innovative, adaptable, and highly creative. If you think you embody our vision, culture, and principles, please get in touch!

You will:

• Provide a high quality and flexible tenancy sustainment service to people with mental health needs.
• Conduct regular keywork sessions that are innovative and engaging in order to achieve service user`s personal support plan goals to enable independence and mental health recovery.
• Support and challenge tenants to improve their quality of life and independent living skills.
• Promote independence, wellbeing, inclusion, and resilience.
• Provide support to tenants/ service users to move on by resettlement support planning and exploring move-on opportunities including the private rented sector.

You are:

• Someone with previous experience of working or volunteering with people who have mental health support needs.
• A mental health professional with good knowledge of working with people with dual diagnosis and ex-offenders.
• Able to support planning and mental health recovery approaches with a compassionate and empathetic approach.
• Knowledgeable about ways of working with people with dual diagnosis and ex-offenders.
• Positive, resourceful, and resilient when working in challenging environment.
• Able to work jointly as part of a team and in partnership with external statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Competent in using computer programmes and databases.

About us

We’re a leading community-based organisation dedicated to providing outstanding mental health support and clinical interventions across London. Our experienced

clinically led teams are focused on directly addressing a range of mental health needs in our communities. We combine innovative solutions with decades of local

community knowledge to empower people to live the life they choose. We partner with the NHS and local authorities to deliver clinically driven frontline services with

fantastic outcomes. We focus on early intervention and prevention, targeting mental health conditions at the most cost-effective stage, while also supporting people with

moderate to severe mental health needs across our communities.

Benefits:

• Hybrid-working if nature of role permits
• Learning and development opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme (interest free lone paid back 12 months period)
• Employee Assistance Programme A 24-hour helpline from Health Assured to support you through any of life’s issues or problems
• Free eye test
• Flexible working
• Interest free loan, those in financial hardship

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