Mental Health Support Worker

Mental Health Support Worker
Buller Court, Farnborough
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)
Salary Circa £18,000
Sleep in Shifts of £35.00
From £9.00 per hour if youd prefer to work on a casual basis
Plus brilliant benefits!
 
Empowering customers to live rewarding and happy lives. Thats when it hits home.
 
We have a fabulous opportunity for you to join our awesome team. We will be supporting our brilliant customers who have mental health issues. Its very difficult to describe our customers as we have not met them yet! This will be a brand new mental health service providing support to 26 individuals aged 18 and up. Our customers will be living in their own flat within our Buller Court complex. 
 
We will be helping our customers to achieve the goals that they have identified with our fabulous Support Coordinators think of them as your guiding lights! The support plans will vary depending on the individual customers, but you can expect to see goals such as managing mental health; budgeting and saving; maintaining my accommodation; managing my substance misuse. You will also receive training around working in a Person-Centred Way as this will be key to empowering our customers to achieve their own goals.
 
About our team
Youll be working alongside our fabulous team of Support Workers, Support Coordinators and Clinical Colleagues who are all super passionate about supporting customers to reach their goals and celebrating their achievements. To us we are not just a team were a €œwork family€. Our manager is Jay Gathergood, and she is in her eighth year working with Home Group. She is energised by the thoughts of future success of this service; and is in her first Senior Client Service Manager role! She has joined the service following three years as a Client Service Manager in Basingstoke and has 9 years of experience within this type of setting. When not at work you will usually find Jay listening to heavy metal music and borrowing other peoples dogs for walks!
 
This is a really exciting time for us as the service is brand new so you will be joining alongside other newbies and go through your Induction together. You will be working alongside 4 Support Coordinators, 4 Support Workers, 1 Client Service Manager, 1 Mental Health Clinical Lead and of course our manager, Jay.
 
Speaking of Jay; she will be swanning off on her holiday's week commencing 09th March (lucky devil!). She will be in touch with candidates on her return week commencing 16th March. For those of who are invited to interview the interview dates will be 25th and 27thMarch.
 
Working hours
We provide 24-hour support to our customers each day and every day. Youll work on a rota basis and take your turn working days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays. We need you to be flexible to meet the needs of our customers, but we aim to give you the time you need to spend it doing the things that matter to you!
 
As we provide 24-hour support to our customers, each day and every day, youll work with the team to cover a sleep-in rota, to ensure our customers can access support in an emergency. 
 
Bank
Looking for a more flexible working pattern? You can also join us on a flexible basis by being part of our bank.  You can work hours that fit around your current commitments or even pick up some additional shifts to your main role to earn some extra cash and get paid on a weekly basis.
 
About you
Youre passionate and motivated to help vulnerable people make positive and lasting changes to their lives. Youll impress us with your ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing people from all different backgrounds. You will have some experience in safeguarding, risk assessments, confidentiality, support plans, alongside working collaboratively.
 
We help change our customers lives for the better. Youll play your part by assisting in the delivery of tasks that are based on our customers personal support plans, and their needs and aspirations. Youll work with our Support Coordinators and external agencies to assess and engage support for our customers. We empower our customers to develop the independent living skills they need, to successfully move on. Together well make a difference!
 
To make sure that we keep our records straight, and customers safe, it's really important that you are technologically savvy (or at the very least not a technophobe!). Training will be provided for all staff as part of their Induction process.
 
It would be amazing if you have worked in this type of environment before, however its your €œcan do€ positive attitude and enthusiasm that are critical to make this role a success. We can nurture your talent, just let us know in your cover letter why you have a passion for working here!
 
An extensive ELearning package is on offer for New Starters with additional face to face training to follow. You will have your own smart phone allowing you to more effectively manage your case load so you will need some IS skills/ a willingness to learn IS skills.
 
You will not need a car to complete this role; but you will need to travel around to spend time with your customers. You could do this role using public transport, or if you drive and have access to a car that would also be amazing! (we pay your expenses to cover this use!).
 
When you join, youll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you dont have a transferrable one.
 
Want to know more?
If youre not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You can download the support worker job description, and find out more about Home Group. Weve also got some short films that show you what its like to work here, and we know youll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!
 
To apply
Dont delay applying for this brilliant job, as we may close it early if we get lots of applications! Just upload your CV and if you have one, your covering letter (this will help us learn more about you!). If you need them, weve also got some great templates to help you.
 
Youre unique!
Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but colleagues too! You can be yourself here, because we value everything that makes you unique. So whatever your age, race, sexuality, disability, religion, or gender identity, we recognise and celebrate our differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!