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We are offering a great opportunity to work as a support worker at the Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health in East London, working with young people in our Day Service provision. You will be supporting young people in the day, between the hours of 09:00 – 17:00 Mon to Fri, enabling them to return home in the evening. We are looking for individuals who have a keen interest in working with young people and their families to support recovery.

A typical day as a support worker may include helping a young person through a period of extreme distress or helping a young person return to school, engaging young people in therapeutic games and activities such as playing on games consoles, playing sports or going for a walk. The support worker role will give you skills that are transferable to many careers.

The Coborn Centre is located in well resourced, purpose built premises at the Newham Centre for MH premises. We work with young people aged between 12-18 years old and their families. The Centre opened in 2006 and comprises of 12 acute beds, 16 intensive care beds and up to 9 day patient places.

You will be able to shadow different professionals and will be offered great development opportunities. We also offer regular supervision, reflective practice groups, academic sessions, various training opportunities, yearly appraisals and staff away days.

We also offer various staff benefits including, car lease schemes, cycle to work schemes, staff wellbeing initiatives and more.

• You will work with a large multidisciplinary team who share a wealth of knowledge and experience.
• Act as a Recovery Champion for the service, and act as a role model for service users.
• Develop and maintain trusting, supportive and empowering relationships with service users, and their families and friends
• Provide support to service users, facilitating both one-to-one and group sessions.
• Provide practical assistance to service users.
• Motivate service users to achieve aspirational and recovery-focused outcomes.
• Empower service users to care for themselves and take control of their own recovery.
• Share coping and self-help skills with service users.
• Empower service users to strengthen or develop their social networks involving families and friends where appropriate.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organizations

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