Mental Health Support Worker

Cygnet; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

apprenticeship scheme

overtime opportunities

coaching & appraisal

employee discounts & Cycle to Work

Job summary

Cygnet Hospital Bury Dunes is seeking a confident Mental Health Support Worker to join our adult wards. The role entails working with service users with various personality disorders and mental health needs, on 37.5 hours per week with a pattern of day, night and weekend shifts.

Successful applicants will undergo a 3-week induction, and the team provides a supportive, learning-focused environment with coaching, supervision, and opportunities for apprenticeship schemes.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work as part of a team.
• Empathy and sensitivity to service users' needs.
• Ability to adapt to a flexible, learning-focused environment.
• Commitment to safeguarding and providing safe, supportive care.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Excellent communicator

Team player

Empathy

Job description

Helping others improve and turn their lives around - there's no better feeling. It's 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.

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

You are…

• Genuinely driven with a desire to make a real difference in people's 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.

Why Cygnet? We'll offer you…

• 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.

What next?

If you care about making a difference - we want to talk to you.