Support Assistant - London, United Kingdom - One Housing Group

One Housing Group

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Support Assistant
At One Housing, we don't only believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. We also believe that everyone deserves to realise their full potential and lead a fulfilling life.

Our Mental Health team is vital to helping us deliver on this vision. We work to transform the life experience of people with mental health support needs.

The support we provide is delivered in a range of settings (like supported housing, assessment centres and outreach) and our customers' support needs can include psychosis, forensic and personality disorders.

Join our Mental Health team as a Support Worker
We have spent the last 10 years designing our services to be fully psychologically informed.

Most of our services have specialist therapeutic input and colleagues have access to specialised mental health training delivered by MH professionals.

All our services provide regular reflective practice spaces to our colleagues to formulate complex cases and find constructive ways forward.

All these measures make us the ideal partner for NHS trusts across London with whom we deliver several integrated services.

We believe in providing care and support to our clients that will enable them to make informed decisions about their life that will increase their sense of wellbeing: this might be greater independence, better coping strategies or a richer network and sense of self achievement.

We offer you the chance to develop your own skills through regular line management supervision, reflective practice, access to a ten-day course on relevant mental health topics and working together with your specialist colleagues.

We're an organisation with strong values.

We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve.

These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of
Support Officer.

Camden Park House is a registered care home for Mental Health customers. We have 13 customers in our supported living scheme.

Salary:
£24,190 per annum

Location:
Camden

Hours:
Rolling Rota, Early & Late Shifts (7.30am-3.30pm / 8am-4pm / 1pm-9pm / 2pm-10pm) You will be required to work 1 in 3 weekends

Your responsibilities will include:

Encouraging customers to participate in social inclusion activities
Be there to empower and teach/show how to cook, maintain personal hygiene, budget, doing laundry etc
Carry out assessment to identify and prioritize needs.
Provide a comprehensive support planning service to customers in line with the department's policies, procedures and approach.
Set up and maintain customer files and ensure that accurate and up to date records are kept of support provided to customers.
Key work sessions and risk assessments
Medication administration

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is friendly, engaged and committed to achieving great outcomes for our customers.

Posses experience within a support living environment.
Have an understanding, knowledge or experience around Mental Health and different diagnosis.
Be empathetic and nonjudgemental.
Have support Officer / support Assistant experience
Have experience with working with challenging behaviours

The offer
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Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
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Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
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Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.
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Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
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Well done With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you've done a #greatjob
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Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
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We're here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/-
Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
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Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years' continuous service.

About us

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and our workforce reflects that.

As of December 2021, One Housing merged with the Riverside Group, creating one of the country's largest housing associations, with more than 75,000 homes.

This follows a shared recognition that we are better and stronger together; and that when we combine, we will be able to do more for our customers and the communities we serve.