Support Worker - London, United Kingdom - Peabody Care & Support

Peabody Care & Support

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a
Support Worker on a Permanent basis based in
Hackney. In return you will receive a competitive salary of
£22,929 pro rataper annum.

About the Support Worker
role:

Peabody are currently recruiting to projects within the London borough of Hackney, supporting people who require a high level of support.

In these services our team members work on a shift basis working 7.5 hours per day.

You will need to communicate with external services and internal teams, follow up on actions, complete incident reports, raise safeguarding cases as required and support customers with Daily Living tasks and tenancy management.

You will also be responsible for monitoring Health & Safety, repairs and tasks related to assessing new referrals to the service.

You may be required to supervise medication and have face to face contact with customers daily. You will also need to have theconfidence once inducted to lone work.

What we're looking for in our Support Worker:

You will need to have a good understanding of mental health, trauma informed care and dual diagnosis, either through work or life experience.

Most importantly you need to be committed and demonstrate the values and understand how rewarding it can be to workwith this sometimes-challenging client group.

What you can expect to be doing as our Support Worker:

As a Support Worker in a Mental Health service, you will work with the rest of the team in supporting our customers to achieve their recovery goals and step down or move on from the services.

You will be allocated a caseload to keywork, you will also beexpected to complete admin tasks such as updating the internal systems with notes, completing risk/need assessments, and supporting customers to attend meetings.

Peabody are supportive of all our staff working in Mental health services providing thorough induction, supervision, and reflective practice sessions to support you to do your job.

We have a generous benefits scheme open to all employees as well as recognisinggood work through spot bonuses and reward points systems.

If you have great values and a genuine wish to support people on their recovery journey, then come and join us.

This role will require a Enhanced DBS check_

If you feel have the skills and experience to become our
Support Worker, please click
'apply'now

At Peabody, where possible, we provide flexible working opportunities from day one to our employees, as we recognise the importance of a good worklife balance; and to improve our productivity and performance, we embrace agile working, which means ifyou are in a desk based role, that will be a hybrid of office and home working. If your role is in a client facing environment, appropriate base location will apply._