Support Worker

Everyturn; Gateshead; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Enhanced pension

Wellbeing programme

Discounts

Job summary

Everyturn is seeking a Support Worker for Coalway Lane to help adults with complex mental health needs live independently and recover in a community setting. You will work with our nurses and clinicians to support service users, using a strengths-based approach across a 24/7 rota that includes night shifts and weekends.

A compassionate, team-focused mindset is essential. The role emphasizes collaboration, safeguarding awareness, and building trusting relationships with residents while promoting

Qualifications

• Experience with people with complex mental health needs.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a 7-day rota with night shifts.

Responsibilities

• Support service users to take the next step in their personal recovery with the team.
• Collaborate with Mental Health Nurses and Clinical Leads to provide just enough support.
• Work within a least restrictive framework while safeguarding and promoting recovery.

Skills

Mental health experience

Communication skills

Teamwork

Job description

We have the exciting opportunity for a Support Worker to come and join Coalway Lane!

This is a permanent, full-time position.

Salary: £26,229.63 per annum

• Time at 1.3 of hourly rate for after 8pm and on Saturdays
• Time at 1.6 of hourly rate for Sundays and Bank Holidays

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as is does not meet the requirements as set out by the UK Visa and Immigration Service

Coalway Lane is a 20-bed Mental Health Rehabilitation and Recovery service supporting adults with complex mental health needs to live well and independently in the community. Rated by the CQC, our service looks and feels like a home, not a hospital, with modern detached houses where every resident has their own front door key and bedroom.

We work with a strengths-based, least restrictive approach, helping people build confidence, daily living skills, and resilience for community life.

About the job

Using your previous experience of working with people with complex mental health needs and good communication skills, you will work alongside our Mental Health Nurses, Nurse Support Practitioners and Clinical Leads to support our service users to take the next step in their personal recovery.

We work in the least restrictive way and collaborate closely with the individual and other professionals to offer ‘just enough’ support, so that people can take the risks they need to in order to reach their potential, flourish in life and transition into a community setting.

To succeed in this role, you will be highly motivated with good communication and interpersonal skills, and a genuine desire to work with this client group. You will also be able to demonstrate the ability to work effectively within a team to support our service users to achieve their own recovery goals. As this is a 24-hour service, this role includes rota/shift work over a 7-day week, including night shifts.

About you

We would love to hear from you if you possess the following:

• Knowledge and experience of working with people with complex mental health needs, who can display behaviours that challenge.
• A genuine desire to work with this client group.
• Able to work well as part of team.
• Good communication skills and the ability to build trusting relationships with the people we care for.
• Able to recognise and maintain appropriate boundaries and awareness of safeguarding issues.

What We Offer In Return

We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years’ service) pro rata for part-time and the option to purchase or sell days
• Enhanced pension
• Wagestream-ability torelease earnings, giving youinstant access to your pay
• Smart Clinic Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
• Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
• Plus, many more great benefits on offer

Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQ+; Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.

We particularly encourage applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds, as we strive to ensure our service reflects the diversity within our locality.

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2 Esh Plaza
Sir Bobby Robson Way
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE13 9BA

Everyturn Mental Health is the trading name of Everyturn a registered charity (charity number 519332) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (company number 02073465) and Everyturn Services Ltd, company registered in England & Wales (company number 4391008).