Support Worker (Mental Health) Salford, North West England, England
Job description
Job overview
Are you compassionate, caring, a good communicator, flexible and self-motivated?
Do you want to inspire hope and support individuals with mental health needs in their recovery journey?
Vacancies have arisen for Full Time Support Workers at Hollybank Supported Accommodation in Salford.
Hollybank provides supported accommodation services on a 24 hour basis, supporting individuals diagnosed with mental health conditions who are working towards achieving greater levels of independence. Hollybank work within the ethos of recovery and views hope, self-responsibility and empowerment as central to this process.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be required to work flexibly between Hollybank, Victoria Crescent and also provide support for individuals, for up to 6 months, in the community across Salford.
Hollybank operates a 24 hour staffing rota which will involve working a shift pattern that will require lone-working for some shifts.
Applicants must be able to:
- Demonstrate a keen interest in mental health and be able to demonstrate awareness of mental health related issues.
- Develop positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers
- Work effectively in a team ensuring that high standards of care are delivered.
- Identify and utilise appropriate resources within the community to meet a service user’s needs and encourage social inclusion, personalisation and recovery
- Have the ability to use initiative and to make appropriate decisions.
The successful candidate will have access to NCA Trust benefits as well as other staff health and wellbeing initiatives. Training, support and supervision will be provided to you if successful.
For more information regarding the role please contact Rebecca Billington, Service Manager, on [email protected] or 0161 358 2161.
Working for our organisation
Salford Care Organisation
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation. Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 or willingness to work towards
- Relevant experience working with vulnerable clients.
- Have an understanding of and sensitivity to, the needs and rights of people experiencing Mental Health problems.
- Understanding of and the ability to contribute effectively to care planning and implementation.
- Ability to encourage and assist clients to develop and maintain domestic, personal and social skills.
- Ability to identify and utilize appropriate resources within the community to meet clients needs
- The ability to form positive and appropriate relationships with clients and to work effectively both on a ‘one to one’ basis and with groups.
- The ability to work effectively with colleagues from other disciplines, both from within the Department and from other organisations
- Understanding of the importance of good observation skills and the ability to record information appropriately, accurately and concisely.
- The ability to use initiative and to make appropriate decisions.
- The ability to be responsible, with the support of regular supervision, for one’s own case load and the planning and organizing of own work.
- Awareness of current legislation and policies within mental health and the Directorate.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/covid-19-vaccination-programme where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from everyone. We value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of our local community. If you are disabled and require reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team to discuss.
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