Support Officer

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Support Officer in a residential service in Wandsworth.

The Salary for this permanent Support Worker role is £26,037

• Support Officer
• Wandsworth
• £26,037 per annum

The role:

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Mental Health Support Worker

Salary: £26,037 per annum
Location: Roehampton Lane, Wandsworth, SW15 4AA

Shift Pattern: 37.5 hours a week Rolling rota Monday – Sunday – Early- 08:00-16:00, late- 13:00-21:00, & sleep-ins. Always at least 2 staff on site on average about 5 sleep-ins per month. 

Westmoor House is a 12-bed supported living home, based in Putney Roehampton. It is an intensive supportive mental health service where we support customers with a range of complex needs including Schizophrenia, Psychosis and Personality disorders. The service is based on recovery, supporting and promoting confidence to help customers to move on and live independently. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Carry out assessment to identify and prioritize needs.
• Use SMART goal planning to provide needs led holistic support.
• Create an environment that promotes opportunities for customers to develop, learn and enable skills towards independence.
• Provide a comprehensive support planning service to customers in line with the department’s policies, procedures, and approach.
• Ensure customers are fully informed of their rights and responsibilities regarding the service and are enabled and empowered to get involved in the running of the service through consultation and participation.
• Set up and maintain customer files and ensure that accurate and up to date records are kept of support provided to customers in accordance with HCS policies

What you will need:

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is friendly, engaged and committed to achieving great outcomes for our customers.

The successful candidate will:

• Be eager to learn and develop.
• Be compassionate.
• Have experience and understanding of Mental Health
• Ideally come from a strong administration background.
• Have previous experience of supporting individuals with Mental Health
• Have prior experience in a support role essential.
• Have experience of undertaking customer assessments, support planning and key-working
• Have the ability to communicate effectively in writing including the preparation of letters reports & file notes.
• Have knowledge and understanding of up-to-date legislation, government frameworks relevant to the customer group.
• Understanding of safeguarding adults

The Offer:

• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues.
• Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
• Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme, you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob.
• Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
• Stay book smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
• Experience new things. We offer a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this as soon as possible. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Contact:

This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more, as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are regretfully only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates reflects the clients that candidates will support within their roles. This very much played a significant part in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care at the Recruiter Awards, as well as being a two-time finalist for the same award. Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).