Transition and Housing Support Worker

Turning Point UK; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to supporting individuals with mental health challenges. As a Transition Navigator, you'll play a pivotal role in empowering clients to achieve their potential through personalized recovery plans and support. This role emphasizes a person-centered approach, allowing you to make a tangible difference in the lives of those you work with. With responsibilities spanning assessments, tailored support, and community integration, you'll thrive in a dynamic environment that values empathy and collaboration. If you're passionate about mental health and eager to help others, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Career Development Opportunities

Recognition and Celebration Culture

Qualifications

• Experience in the mental health sector is essential.
• Understanding of the recovery model is crucial.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide recovery-focused support through key working and group sessions.
• Conduct housing and benefit assessments for service users.
• Create tailored support and risk management plans.

Skills

Mental Health Support

Person-Centred Care

Recovery Model Understanding

Empathy and Patience

Solution-Focused Attitude

Job description

At Turning Point, we support people across the UK with mental health issues. As the Transition Navigator, you’ll make a real difference to their lives as you work closely with them to help them achieve their potential.

Beacon Lodge is a mental health step down unit that supports people to transition from acute mental health wards back into the community. Passionate about people, you’ll enjoy the scope of this role. With an emphasis on recovery working alongside specialist housing and benefit related support, you’ll need to work flexibly to manage your own small caseload and help with the day to day running of the service.

Role Responsibility

Raising the bar for person–centred care, you’ll provide a range of recovery focused support through key working sessions and group work. People’s lives will be truly changed by you as you enable and prepare them to gain new skills and help them find ways to promote their long-term recovery.

You will also have off rota responsibilities such as housing and benefit assessments, identifying housing needs, liaising with local authorities to ensure that service users are supported in their move on from the service.

On rota, you’ll work with individuals on their recovery, devising individually tailored support and risk management plans and ensuring effective discharge planning. Ultimately, you’ll play a vital role in helping them to gain skills and coping strategies, all while encouraging positive change and independence.

The role requires you to work on a 24-hour rolling rota consisting of 12-hour day and waking night shifts including alternate weekends.

The Ideal Candidate

Ideally withexperience in the mental health sector, it’s essential that you have a good understanding of the recovery model, together with a solution–focused attitude and a person–centred approach. You’ll be equally comfortable getting things done on your own initiative and as part of a team and have no problems working in a fast–paced environment and adapting to challenging situations.

And of course, you’ll be the sort of person who enjoys talking to people with different needs, is genuinely interested in helping them, and possesses a deep level of empathy, understanding and patience.

Housing and benefit knowledge would be desirable in this role but support and training will be provided to the successful candidate.

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package.

Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following the link below to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

Job Reference transition Support worker - Beacon Lodge/11372