Mental Health Support Worker

Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellent mental health services, housing, and supported living. 

Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellent mental health services, housing, and supported living.

Mental Health Support Worker - £24,050 - £26,000 per annum pro rata to £10,400 - £11,243 (Salaries vary depending on experiences)

Hours – Part - time Hours – 16 hours per week, Monday – Sunday, inclusive of bank holidays, shifts include mornings, evenings, weekends and sleep ins.

Service – Papist Way, Wallingford

What You’ll Be Doing:

Papist Way is home to 10 residents with acute mental health needs, working alongside the Adult Mental Health Team. Our roles offer employees variety where every day is different whilst also giving a great sense of pride seeing the positive impact you can have on others.

Our clients really appreciate the passion from our Support Workers too: “The staff are caring, kind, compassionate and understanding. They support me and care for me and are first class. I am happier now than I have been in years.” Client in Adult Services.  

Overall job responsibility - Further detail can be viewed in the Job Description. Some of the core duties include:

• You will provide a safe and comfortable environment for our residents to live and colleagues to work.
• Support the development of person-centred planning, ensuring each resident’s plans have meaningful and achievable goals 
• Ensure support plans and risk management plans are implemented as necessary, in line with policies and procedures.
• Support residents with medication concordance.
• Undertake an enabling role with the resident in daily tasks such as cleaning, shopping, budgeting, and household tasks that promote independent living.
• Lead and promote social inclusion work by introducing residents to leisure activities, new interests, education or volunteering.
• Working with clinical teams, attending CPAs and multi-disciplinary team meetings

The Successful Applicant:

Our main priority for all our roles at Response is to find people that can live our values every day – Caring, Safe, Creative and Aspirational. Essential criteria:

• Good written skills due to the volume of paperwork required to be kept up to date.
• Good organisation, communication skills and can work calmly in difficult and challenging situations.
• Knowledge and understanding of different types of mental health illnesses and the level of care some residents require would be desirable, but full training will be given.
• Experience within a care or mental health settings is desirable, but not essential.

What We Offer:

• 25 days annual leave and standard bank and public holidays.
• Blue Light card and other discounted shopping
• EAP - with access to free counselling 
• Cycle to Work Scheme (after probation)
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Professional qualification sponsorship and study leave 
• £500 refer a friend bonus scheme 
• Optional health cash care plan with money off prescriptions and treatments
• Wellbeing hub and mental wellbeing support app – approved by NHS
• Free flu jabs
• Free DBS application

You will receive the training and confidence to use core therapeutic talk therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Strength-based Trauma Informed Care and Mutual Aid to provide the best possible support to our clients.

If this Mental Health Support Worker position sounds like the role for you then please apply today! We would love to hear from you! This vacancy may be closed early. To learn more about Response and what we do, please visit our website. Closing date – 15th August 2024.

Our employees and clients come from all over the world, we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture and are registered as a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. All our roles require an enhanced DBS check, two references from most recent employers and you must have the right to work in the UK.