Mental Health Support Coordinator

Home Group; Pennington; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

34 days leave

Health cash plan

Pension contribution

Instant pay access

Discounts

Job summary

Home Group in the United Kingdom is recruiting for a frontline support role based at North Close with travel to Hythe, Winchester and Eastleigh. You’ll balance safeguarding, admin and meetings while guiding colleagues and managing caseloads to help customers maintain independence.

The role offers £27,500 per year plus 34 days of leave (rising to 39) and a health cash plan worth over £1,140 each year. We value resilience, initiative and a compassionate approach to supporting others in a busy

Qualifications

• Experience supporting others, ideally in supported housing.
• Level 3 Diploma in Care or equivalent experience or willingness to work towards it.
• Experience assessing referrals and coordinating support.
• Ability to work on own initiative, stay calm under pressure, and be resilient.
• Busy service; will work with new and established colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Balance support, safeguarding, admin and meetings while guiding colleagues and managing caseloads.
• Support Customers with daily tasks like budgeting, cooking and attending appointments.
• Work with multi-agency teams to safeguard and empower our customers.
• Help customers build independence and prepare for their move-on into the community.

Skills

Supporting others

Resilience

Initiative

Calm under pressure

Education

Level 3 Diploma in Care

Equivalent experience/working towards it

Job description

• Salary £27,500 per annum plus 34 days leave (rising to 39) and health cash plan worth over £1140

• Salary £27,500 per annum plus 34 days leave (rising to 39) and health cash plan worth over £1140

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that truly cares, not only about our customers, but about you too? Our colleagues tell us that working here feels different. We’re brilliant at what we do, and we look after each other just as much as we support our customers. If you’ve ever felt like just a number in your current job, this could be the change you’ve been waiting for.

What You’ll Do

• Balance support, safeguarding, admin and meetings while guiding colleagues and managing caseloads
• Support Customers with daily tasks like budgeting, cooking and attending appointments
• Work with multi-agency teams to safeguard and empower our customers
• Help customers build independence and prepare for their move-on into the community

Why join us

This is more than a job – it’s a place where you feel valued. With our learning and development offer, and support from friendly colleagues, you’ll make a real difference every day! If you’re ready to leave behind the ordinary, do something that really matters. Be part of one of the UK’s Great Places to Work! We can’t offer a CoS for this role

You have

• Passion and experience in supporting others ideally in a supported housing setting
• Level 3 Diploma in Care or equivalent experience (or are willing to work towards it)
• Experience assessing referrals and coordinating support
• The ability to work under your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
• It is a busy service, and the successful candidate will work with both new and established colleagues

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

The practical bits

• We meet as a whole team once a month either digitally or in person at a service. It’s great to get together and celebrate the wins as well as support each other through challenges.
• 8 week rolling rota, weekdays shifts are 9am-5pm or 11am-7pm during. You’ll work 1 in 3 weekends (10am-6pm) with bank holiday cover on a shared rota basis across the team (10am-6pm).
• You’ll be required to work some bank holidays and the Christmas period, with these shifts shared across the team, so you won’t be expected to cover them all. Weekend and bank holiday shifts are worked from 10am-6pm.
• Service base will be North Close, however there is an expectation to travel to our Hythe service regularly as well as some travel across our patch to Winchester and Eastleigh. Mileage between sites can be claimed back.
• You need an Enhanced with barring list (we pay)

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave, rising to 39 (this includes bank holidays and a 'me day')
• Health cash plan saving you (and your children) £1140+ each year covering dental, opticians, prescriptions and more
• Matching pension contribution (up to 7% and life insurance of 3x basic salary)
• Instant pay access with Stream
• 800+ discounts on shops, holidays, days out, tech and more

Finally

For reasonable adjustments email [email protected]. Interviews are scheduled for 17 September