Support Worker

Ability Housing Association; Slough; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

30 days leave

Pension

Mileage allowance

Sick pay

Job summary

Ability Housing Association in Slough is seeking a full-time Support Worker to provide recovery-focused support. You will help customers develop community networks to promote independence, with shifts including days, evenings, weekends, and sleep-ins.

You will support individuals living with mental illness or dual diagnosis, enabling daily living activities and safeguarding while liaising with mental health agencies as needed.

Qualifications

• Understanding of recovery principles and embedding recovery ethos in practice.
• Ability to assess an individual's situation and needs.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Good organisational skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative.

Responsibilities

• Provide outcomes-focused support to individuals living with mental illness or dual diagnosis.
• Enable self-management of personal and domestic resources and activities of daily living.
• Develop, review and monitor person-centered support and safety plans.
• Monitor and report on effectiveness of support delivery to senior staff.
• Contribute to safeguarding and protection from abuse or harm.
• Encourage mental wellbeing and independence in service users.

Skills

Recovery principles

Assessment skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Initiative

Job description

Ability Care & Support provides support to vulnerable adults within the Slough area. Sough services are a Learning Disabilities service. We are looking for a Support Workers to join our friendly team on a full-time basis, providing support recovery with a focus on supporting customers to develop community networks which support independence.

Do you want a rewarding career where you can really make a difference?

Do you have:

• Some understanding of recovery principles and embedding the ethos of recovery into your own
• practice.
• Ability to make a comprehensive assessment of an individual's situation and needs
• Excellent communication
• Good organisational skills
• Being able to work under your own initiative

If yes, join us at Ability Housing where you can be part of a friendly and inspiring team as a Support Worker.

Vacancies details

This is a permanent position, working full time, 40 hours per week. The successful candidates need to be able to be part of rolling rota, covering days, evenings, weekends, bank holidays and sleep-ins.

About the role

You will provide outcomes focused support to individuals living with mental illness or dual diagnosis, including one to one individual support and liaison with other mental health agencies on behalf of people who use our services.

You will also:

• Work to enable individuals to self-manage their personal and domestic resources and to undertake activities of daily living.
• Jointly develop, review, monitor and adapt person centred support and safety plans.
• Monitor and report to senior staff on the effectiveness of support delivery
• Contribute to the protection of individuals from the risk of abuse and harm to self and others who access our services.
• Encourage those living with mental illness to recognise, understand and manage factors that affect their mental wellbeing and physical health
• Empower our customers to develop the independent living skills they need, to successfully move on.

Ability Care & Support provides support to vulnerable adults within the Slough area. We are looking for a Support Workers to join our friendly team on a full-time basis, providing support recovery with a focus on supporting customers to develop community networks which support independence.

Salary - £26,507.98 - 40 hours per week (£12.71ph) The hours you work will depend on our customer needs, but we will agree these with you in advance.

Benefits you will receive with this role

• Support and Leadership Training and development opportunities
• Company healthcare scheme
• 30 days annual leave (included bank holidays)
• Contributory pension
• 0.55p per mile
• Sick Pay This post requires employment references and clearance by the Disclosure & Barring Service