Male Mental Health Support Worker Wotton-under-Edge, England
Job description
Male Mental Health Support Worker
Are you passionate about making a real difference to someone’s life and helping them achieve their goals?
At Maples we believe that everyone is supportable with the right approach and should be able to live in a safe, caring, and empowering environment. We believe that individuals are more than labels, diagnoses or their past.
The Park is a 12-bed step through rehabilitative facility set in beautiful rural countryside not far from Thornbury. We house adult males aged 18-65 with a mental health illness. The service's core philosophy is the promotion of independence, health and social recovery through bespoke rehabilitation and care/support planning for these adults
As a Male Mental Health Support Worker at The Park, you will be working as part of an innovative, friendly and compassionate team. You will be responsible for enabling people with various and sometimes very complex support needs to progress towards recovery, wellbeing and independence through the utilisation of creative, flexible, and outcome-driven support, planning and delivery techniques.
On a typical day you will be:
· Enabling service users to access and participate in our in-house activities and their local community
· Creating positive relationships with Service Users and engaging in their journey to recovery
· Providing medication administration and work with clinical staff to support service users achieve self-medication and independence in this area
· Attending meetings with or on behalf of service users
· Developing and maintaining an understanding of mental health sections and any associated conditions of community discharge
Shift times
3 weeks of days, followed by 3 weeks of nights. 2 weekly rotation of shifts: Mon, Tues, Sat Sun on week one, and Weds, Thurs, Fri on week 2.
Day shift times are 07:30 - 08:00 and 10:30 - 23:00
Night shift times: 19:30 - 08:00
Benefits:
- Salary: Between £10.35 and £11.10 per hour, dependant on experience
- Wellbeing days or convert to holiday
- Career opportunities and development
- A day off each year to celebrate your special day
- Company Sick Pay
- Blue Light Card
- Pet Bereavement day
- Christmas bonus
- Employee referral scheme
- EarlyPay – access a portion of your wages as you work before pay day
Please note – The Park is in a rural location based in the postcode GL12, you will need your own transport and we have plenty of onsite parking.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £10.35-£11.10 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 8DR: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
