Waking Night Support Worker

Confidential; Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames; Vor Ort; GBP 14.000 - 17.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Annual leave up to 30 days with length

Pension contributions up to 8%

Life assurance up to 3x Pensionable

Free DBS

Zusammenfassung

Look Ahead is seeking a compassionate Waking Night Support Worker for our Forensic Mental Health service in Kingston. The role is 20 hours per week with an annual salary of £15,400. The service emphasises safety, relational security, and responsive care overnight.

Essentially, you will have waking-night experience with mental health or complex needs and contribute to a trauma-informed, boundaried approach. The service opens 4 January 2027, subject to approval; Look Ahead champions safeguarding,

Qualifikationen

• Experience of waking-night work with people who have mental health or other complex needs.

Aufgaben

• Maintain an active and visible waking-night presence as part of a team.
• Engage distressed customers with trauma-informed and boundaried support during overnight hours.

Kenntnisse

Waking-night experience

Jobbeschreibung

We're looking for a caring and compassionate Waking Night Support Worker to join our Forensic Mental Health service located in Kingston.

£15,400.00 per annum, working 20 hours per week.

• Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
• A generous pension - we will contribute up to 8% and life assurance cover up to 3x Pensionable Salary (T&Cs apply)
• Free DBS

All applicants must be legallyeligible to workin the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.

The waking night support worker will provide skilled waking-night support across the pathway, maintaining safety and relational security while responding to customers' emotional, mental health, medication and practical needs overnight. The role also includes overarching health and safety responsibilities.

What you'll do:

• Maintain an active and visible waking-night presence as part of a team, with no lone support working in the service model.
• Engage customers who are distressed, unsettled or awake overnight and provide calm, trauma-informed and boundaried support.

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead

What you'll bring:

Essential:

• Experience of waking-night work with people who have mental health or other complex needs, or closely comparable work requiring safe decisions overnight.

Desirable:

• Forensic mental health, statutory restrictions and public-protection arrangements.

The service is anticipated to open on 4 January 2027, subject to contract finalisation, successful mobilisation and confirmation of operational readiness.

About us:

Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

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

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.