Specialist Mental Health Support Worker - Westminster, United Kingdom - Look Ahead Housing and Care

Look Ahead Housing and Care

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Westminster, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job profile:

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

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Job details:
Job details:

Job reference

REQ00474
Date posted
17/05/202 Application closing date
18/06/202 Location
Westminster
Salary
GBP £25,418.00 Per Annum
Package
25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
Contractual hours
40
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Full Time, Permanent

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Specialist Mental Health Support Worker:

Job description
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We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Specialist Mental Health Support Worker to join our Homelessness service in Westminster. No personal care or experience is required, just the right values.

£25,418.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
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Want to feel like you're part of one team? You'll feel at home here.
Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team.

After all, our people are doing something amazing:
helping to transform lives every day.
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This role requires working on a rota pattern encompassing mix of shifts between 08:00 to 16:00 and 14:00 to 22:00 including weekends.

Hopkinson House provides 24-hour accommodation-based support for 30 customers who have been diagnosed with severe and enduring mental health conditions who are under the Care Programme Approach (CPA).

Our customers can also have multiple complex needs, traumas, personality disorder(s) and a varied, disrupted housing history with experience of homelessness.

Hopkinson House implements and promotes Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) model. This is an approach to supporting people out of homelessness, those who have experienced complex trauma or are diagnosed with a personality disorder.

It also considers the psychological needs of staff:
developing skills and knowledge, increasing motivation, job satisfaction and resilience.

Support from the in-house Clinical Psychologist is given as part of the PIE model: reflective practice, training, and client consultation are facilitated for staff weekly.

One-to-one support from a clinical psychologist is also offered to residents.

Support in Hopkinson House is delivered by a multiagency team including inhouse clinical psychologist, art therapist, and a specialist substance misuse worker to provide holistic care. The service works with various agencies such as NHS hospitals, community mental health teams, forensic mental health teams and substance misuse agencies. Liaising with other teams provides mental health support workers with a thorough understanding of how mental health services work.
We are recruiting for Specialist Mental Health Support Workers to join our dynamic service and team.

You will provide information, social inclusion, and vocational opportunities to support customers to:

recover and stay well; exercise choice and control in their support and lives; and participate on an equal footing in the community.

Provision support is provided on a model of reenablement towards selfadvocacy, selfmanagement, and empowerment, incorporating the principles and practice of recovery, coproduction, and peer support.

This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation.

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What you'll do:

Carrying out holistic assessments of new customers incorporating relevant statutory referral information
Keyworking complex customers, building supportive, trusting relationships with customers and external partners, creating a positive atmosphere
Co-Produce personalised support plans with customers providing appropriate support based on ongoing assessment and resources available to enable customer to progress in their recovery
Conducting regular key work sessions that are innovative and engaging to achieve Support Plan goals
Ensuring ongoing assessment and management of risks associated with customers within an attitude of 'positive risk taking' through Risk Management Plans
Keep customers records and files up to date in line with Look Ahead' Policies and Procedures
Lead on handover of key information between shifts, verbally and electronically reporting safeguarding concerns, customers' progress, and engagement with services
Provide support and access to relevant services to enable customers to continue their recovery and empower customers to develop life skills through individual reenablement programmes and informed decision making
Undertake support work in partnership with external stakeholders to complement their interventi