Support Worker - Pele Tower Service

Richmond Fellowship
£14,024-£16,830 pa
Permanent
Full Time
Sunderland

As Support Worker, you’ll provide essential assistance to our residents and other clients using our Day Service – reflecting our therapeutic person-focused approach in everything you do, as you enable people with mental health issues to live fuller and more independent lives.

The role will involve:
• Helping to develop and deliver intensive housing support
• Building robust, lasting partnerships with a wide range of other professionals
• Managing your own caseload
• Providing clients with essential practical and emotional support, with the constant aim of increasing their independence and self-esteem
• Helping them to develop their skills and potential to the full, while encouraging them to get involved in community life and maintain successful tenancies
• Developing personal support plans and risk assessments
• Participating in group clinical supervisions
• Supporting the role and function of therapy within the community

You’ll need:
• Some mental health experience
• A track record of helping people access community activities and engage with them
• Capacity to work on an on-call rota, including overnights and weekends
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure
• IT literacy including knowledge of Word and databases
• Impressive admin skills, with the ability to keep detailed, up-to-date records
• A dynamic, creative and flexible approach to problem-solving
• Ability to maintain strong, lasting partnerships with a range of external organisations and professionals

If you’ve got what it takes to provide dynamic, holistic support that’s second to none, this is a superb opportunity to join a team that really cares about making a difference.

Giving thousands of people each year a new sense of purpose and fulfilment, we’re one of the UK’s biggest providers of mental health care. Our ambitions are clear – you will help us achieve them.

We offer great benefits, including 25 days’ holiday per year, contributory pension scheme, employee assistance programme and childcare vouchers.

To find out more and apply, visit www.richmondfellowship.org.uk/careers

Ref: 10/173

Closing date: 9 September 2010. Interviews: 20 September 2010.