Mental Health Support Worker

NHS Jobs; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Apprenticeship scheme

Overtime opportunities

Coaching & appraisal

Wellbeing centre

Job summary

Cygnet Hospital Bury Dunes is recruiting a Mental Health Support Worker on a full-time contract. You will work 12-hour shifts across days, nights and weekends, supporting male and female service users on adult wards with various personality disorders and mental health issues.

Successful applicants will complete a 3-week full-time induction and join a team delivering compassionate, patient-centered care in a setting with extensive facilities and multidisciplinary support.

Qualifications

• Full-time contract (37.5 hours per week) including 12-hour shifts across days, nights and weekends.
• Enhanced DBS check required.
• Inpatient mental health care on adult wards.

Responsibilities

• Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all service users.
• Provide guidance and encouragement through physical and emotional support.
• Learn about individuals' specific needs and provide help in the most appropriate way.
• Assist with medical and welfare needs and report as required.
• Safeguard and maintain a safe and clean environment for all.

Skills

Excellent communication

Team player

Empathy

People-focused care

Job description

Helping others improve and turn their lives around theres no better feeling. Its what we do for thousands of people at more than 150 sites across the UK. Be a part of it. We are looking for confident Mental Health Support Workers with a passion for delivering outstanding care. You'll be working a full time contract(37.5 hours per week)with 12 hour shifts across both days, nights & Weekends)at Cygnet Hospital Bury Dunes. Your role will be working with male/female service users on one of our high priority Adult wards working with various personality disorders and mental health issues. Successful applicants would be required to attend a 3 week full time induction at the start of employment (Monday to Friday 9am 5pm) Cygnet Bury Dunes provides a wide range of inpatient mental health services for men and women including specialist deaf services and emergency admission services. Each service user has a bedroom with en suite facilities and a range of communal spaces including a gym, laundry, occupational therapy kitchen, therapy garden and woodland walkways down to the Elton Reservoir.

You are:

• Genuinely driven with a desire to make a real difference in peoples lives
• An excellent communicator and a good team player
• Sensitive and intuitive with the energy required to provide a trusting, stimulating & varied environment
• Helping to empower & support service user independence.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all our service users, patients & residents
• Provide guidance and encouragement through physical & emotional support
• Learn about individuals specific needs & provide help in the most appropriate way
• Assist with medical & welfare needs and report as required
• Safeguard Maintain a safe and clean environment for all

Why Cygnet?

• Salary: £13.15 Per Hour
• An opening to undertake further learning with our excellent apprenticeship scheme
• Flexible working with opportunity for overtime
• Regular coaching & appraisal
• Expert supervision & peer support
• Employee discount savings & Cycle to Work scheme
• Wellbeing centre with exercises, recipes, financial and mental health advice

Please note: successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.