Support Worker - Nottingham Community Housing Association : Job Details

Support Worker

Nottingham

£22,669 - £23,428 per annum

Here at NCHA we have a fantastic opportunity for the right people to join our friendly and supportive Care & Support team as a Mental Health Support Worker based in Nottingham.

We provide people with accommodation, and ongoing support. Support is mainly on a one-to-one basis, but does include group work activities.

We encourage everyone who lives with us to have a say in how our project is run, and to take part in group support sessions and meetings. We respect their choices and privacy. Equality and diversity are important to us, and we work hard to make sure everyone feels included.

Have an understanding of Mental Health and want to make a difference?

You will be equipped with the right values and be given training to make you highly resilient to allow you to demonstrate patience and understanding even in times of crisis. We know it’s a challenging role, but we also know you will be remarkable at it.

So what will you be doing?

You will provide face to face support to people living with mental illness. You’ll help to develop their daily living skills, emotional stability and increase confidence, whilst maintaining positive working relationships with family, social workers and other professionals. You will encourage positive behaviour, helping to promote meaningful change in people's beliefs and abilities.

Numeracy, literacy and IT skills are essential as you will updating support plans and recording notes frequently.

Shift Patterns

Support is all year round; so you will need to be available to work a variety of shifts across weekdays, weekends and bank holidays according to service user needs. Shift patterns are based around service user needs so our ideal candidate will be flexible. The working pattern is 37 hours worked over a 7 day period. These shifts can vary but generally will be between 8am and 9pm. We are unable to accommodate any part time roles due to our service needs.

The ideal candidate is an organised self-starter with computer experience, able to mix face to face practical work with computer based record keeping. They will be open and supportive to the needs of others, displaying our CLEAR values and having an awareness of the needs of vulnerable adults and able to communicate effectively with other professionals and agencies.

Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis in Nottingham. You will be asked to take a short numerical and literacy test prior to the interview.

We may close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient interest.

PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT OFFER SPONSORSHIP.

NCHA strives to be a welcoming and inclusive employer as such we particularly welcome applicants from men, as they are currently under-represented within in our Care and Support department