Support Worker

Centred; Inverness; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a progressive third sector organization dedicated to supporting individuals through mental health challenges. As a Support Worker, you will play a vital role in helping service users achieve their recovery goals, fostering a warm and inclusive environment. This role involves developing therapeutic relationships and promoting a person-centred approach to care. With a focus on dignity, choice, and safety, you will be integral to the recovery journey of individuals in the Highlands. If you are passionate about making a difference and supporting others, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to meaningful change in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in support work or similar roles is preferred.
• Ability to develop therapeutic relationships with service users.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to service users in achieving recovery goals.
• Encourage engagement in mental health recovery and promote dignity.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Person-centred approach

Education

Relevant qualifications in health and social care

Job description

This job was posted on: September 13, 2024

Please note we cannot provide sponsorships at this time
Please note we do not accept CV’s

Job Description and Person Specification

Support Worker

(SSSC Registration Category – Support Worker in Care Home Services for Adults)

BACKGROUND:
Centred is a progressive third sector organisation, based in the Highlands which
supports individuals through mental ill health towards recovery. Our services are based
throughout Highland region, in Easter Ross, Lochaber, Caithness and Inverness, offering
support to people within their own homes as well as the Recovery Centre which offers
residential 24 hour support.

LOCATION: The Recovery Centre, Muirfield Lane, Inverness, IV2 4AX
REPORTS TO: Community Service Manager/Team Leader
SALARY: £23,400.00 – £25,545.00 (£12.00-£13.10 Hourly)
HOURS: 37.5 hours per week full time/ 25 hours per week part time, worked over 3 or 2
shifts accordingly, days and nights.

JOB ROLE:
To provide support and motivate service users to achieve their recovery goals and move
on from the Recovery Centre in a planned way, to their own home in the community or to
alternative accommodation relevant to their needs.
You will be expected to help develop and maintain a warm, supportive atmosphere in
which service users are encouraged to manage their own lives, through the values of
inclusion and recovery. Adopting a person centred approach, you will develop
therapeutic relationships which uphold service users rights to privacy, choice, safety,
dignity, equality and realising their own potential.

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. To work collegially as a member of the Recovery Centre staff team, encouraging
   service users to engage in their mental health recovery.
2. To embrace and promote the ethos of recovery and person centre working
   through developing supportive and respectful therapeutic relationships.