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Location: West Croydon, London (Adult services)

Salary: £23,303 - £26,390 per annum depending on role

Contract Type: Permanent

Position Type: Full Time

Closing date: 05 June 2023

Interviews: Various dates & times can be offered

Are you looking for a new support opportunity?

If you are passionate about making a real difference through supporting vulnerable people with mental ill-health, we would love to hear from you!

Evolve Housing + Support is a leading homelessness charity in London, providing housing and support to over 1,300 people each year. Evolve offers support tailored to meet people’s individual needs, including housing, employment, and skills training, mentoring and counselling.

Our Mental health step down service is based in West Croydon and we support 27 customers from ages 18-65 years old experiencing issues with their mental health. Customers are usually referred to us after a period in residential care or hospital and they are participating in the Care Programme Approach. The stay at our Mental Health Step Down Service is up to a maximum of two years. Our customers have a range of support needs and have access to support from us 24 hours a day. The service aims to reduce hospital readmissions and support customers to improve on their independent living skills, whilst rehabilitating them back into the community. When customers move in, we use the Recovery Model to empower them to make decisions about their support and our person-centred approach enables them to identify their existing strengths and skills so they can achieve their goals and aspirations. We firmly believe customers can move beyond their current support needs and achieve their full potential by developing new skills and accessing opportunities.

Your job role will vary here at mental health step down and no one day is the same! Your working week could include supporting customers to GP or hospital appointments, engaging with their Care Coordinator for medical reviews, watching a movie or cooking a new recipe in the lounge or going on a wellbeing walk to our local parks!

Whilst with us customers engage in developing life and independent living skills (including building self-esteem, fostering positive relationships, cooking, and budgeting) and therapeutic activities such as art workshops and gardening.

Support into education, training or employment is tailored to individual needs, circumstances, and goals on various levels; from initial advice and volunteering, to signposting to adult learning courses, apprenticeships, and paid work. Our work is complemented by joint working with local health services and specialist agencies relating to mental health such as Mind and the community mental health teams.

We’re looking for those who are passionate about making a difference to people’s lives, including supporting vulnerable people to achieve independent living and better manage their mental health. We are looking for people who have knowledge of safeguarding issues and how they apply in day-to-day work. Due to the nature of the roles, you’ll need an understanding of the reasons why people become homeless and the needs and challenges they face and of statutory and voluntary resources available to homeless people. Experience working or voluntary in this sector would be beneficial but is not compulsory.

The roles are for different levels of Support Worker with shifts on a pre-planned rolling rota - 5 / days a week including mornings (from 7am), evenings (to 10pm), which also includes mid shifts and weekends.

Benefits:

As part of your employment package with us, we offer:

• Full-time or part-time job share opportunities.
• a competitive salary, comprehensive training and development programme,
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing each year to 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays after 5 years
• option to buy or sell annual leave up to one week’s annual leave
• a health cash plan providing cash back towards healthcare bills and other wellbeing benefits
• occupational sick pay
• contributory group pension scheme
• free life assurance
• cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

Find out more about our Mental Health Step Down Programme here https://www.evolvehousing.org.uk/understand-our-work/supported-housing/mental-health/

Diversity, equity and inclusion runs through every aspect of our work, from the way we support customers to how we develop and champion our colleagues. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and inclusion is key to making everyone feel at home. For over 160 years we have provided somewhere for people impacted by homelessness to stay and thrive. To achieve this, we strive to make sure that our colleagues represent the diversity of our customers and that our workplace creates a sense of belonging for everyone. We hope that you will join us in our vision. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you have any questions or need any adjustments, please call us on 020 7101 9960 or email [email protected]

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