Mental Health Waking Night Support Worker - Bury

NHS Jobs; Ramsbottom; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Care in Mind seeks a Mental Health Waking Night Support Worker for its 6-bed home in Bury to help young people with mental health needs during the night. You will support wellbeing, meals, education and daily living activities, and manage incidents with de-escalation of behaviours.

Full training is provided as no prior care experience is essential. You will update online records, assist with medication administration and handovers to day staff, with on-call manager support.

Qualifications

• Night shift experience or willingness to work nights.
• Ability to update online care records and complete medication administration.
• Capable of incident management and de-escalation of challenging behaviours.

Responsibilities

• Support young people with daily living tasks, wellbeing, education and household routines.
• Assist with meals, shopping, self-care prompts and appointments.
• Maintain a tidy, homely environment within the home and support activities outside the home.

Skills

Night shift

De-escalation

Medication administration

Record keeping

Job description

Mental Health Waking Night Support Worker - Bury

At Care in Mind our homes are always a hub of activity and energy where the young people can feel safe, and our staff enjoy coming to work. Our young people can still be quite active at night so you will have lots of interaction and will be required to support them their wellbeing, education, household tasks and general life skills. There will also be more challenging aspects to the role such as incident management and de-escalation of challenging behaviours. You will be required to update online care records, complete medication administration and provide effective handovers to the day staff. In addition, you will be responsible for the general upkeep and tidiness of the home ensuring the young people live in homely environment. Even though you are working nights, you will have the support of another night worker or a sleep in and have access to an on-call manager for additional support. Previous care experience is not essentialand full training will be provided. You will receive ongoing support and mentoring from our friendly residential and clinical team which includes Reflective Practice, 1:1 supervisions and Group Staff support. The job is highly rewarding and a great start to developing your career working with young people or enhancing your previous experience of mental health with the opportunity for excellent career development. At Stubble Bank, you will be working with young people who have a variety of mental health diagnosis including personality disorder, disordered eating, and complex post-traumatic stress disorder and those who use self-harm as a strategy to cope with their emotions. Several of our young people are preparing for moving on positively from the home into the community. Your role will include supporting them with their daily living meal preparation, food shopping, prompting for self-care, medication administration, medical appointments, and general upkeep of their home. Our young people enjoy doing activities out of the home including clothes shopping, swimming, meals out, attending youth clubs and other groups, pamper sessions and cinema trips, which you will be able to support with. The role will include some fewer fun aspects such as incident management, de-escalation of challenging behaviours, completing several online records, report writing, audits, and medication management. The home is a 6-bed service.

£28,808.78 - £29,709.68 Per Annum Dependant on Experience (Pro Rata for Part Time Hours)

£28,808.78 - £29,709.68 Per Annum Dependant on Experience (Pro Rata for Part Time Hours)