Job Description

Mental Health Support Worker
Whitehaven and surrounding areas
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw), split over shifts covering 24 hours a day
Salary 24,638 to 24,850 per year
Home, a place where you belong
We are delighted to be launching a new clinical partnership with Everyturn Mental Health and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and we are hiring Support Workers to join Home Group, supporting individuals and communities across Whitehaven and Copeland.
Our new service combines specialist health, social care, and community support, offering a mix of drop-in services, local events and temporary safe spaces for those in crisis. This is a unique opportunity to be part of ground-breaking mental health service and deliver life changing outcomes.
What's in it for you?

• 34 days leave, pro-rated (including bank holidays and a "me day")
• Paid time off for volunteering
• Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)
• Save up to 1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies
• Career path with development and an excellent training package
• Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses

Colleagues really matter to us, that's why we're the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing.
Typical day as our Support Worker

• Supporting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
• Supporting and encouraging customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
• Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
• Working closely with colleagues from other organisations to provide the best support when needed.

You'll go home every day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better, here, working for one of the Top Ten Great Places to Work in the UK!
You bring

• A genuine passion for supporting people through mental health challenges
• Experience caring for others--professionally or personally
• Calm, confident decision-making, even under pressure
• A flexible, person-centred approach that adapts to each individual
• Willingness to learn and grow, with or without formal qualifications
• To get from A to B, you'll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we'll pay your mileage!

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.
Our team
Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You'll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!
Job details

• Shift patterns- covering 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Where we're flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
• Manage your own diary
• If you are applying for a night role, we will still get together regularly, in the daytime, for training and team meetings.
• Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
• You'll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. !
Find out more
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Skills Required