- You would be working for a charity that supports clients with mixed mental health conditions with the aim to have them successfully moved on within a 2-year period.
- Establish and maintain relationships of trust with service users, to build engagement
- Help service users to set, prioritise and achieve goals, managing their tenancies and move-on.
- Carry out assessments and determine urgency of service user needs.
- Work with professionals from other agencies, and make onward referrals, linking service users into community opportunities.
- Carry out risk assessments, in order to keep service users safe and improve the quality of our support.
- Work with service users on a 1:1 basis and in groups.
- Assist service users to deal with financial issues and navigate the benefits and education systems.
- Assist service users to manage friendships and family relationships.
- Assist service users to manage their medication.
- Accompany service users to appointments.
- Encourage positive choices around food, leisure etc.
- Assist service users to undertake domestic tasks such as cooking and cleaning, ensuring adherence to infection control (training provided).
- Assist service users with personal care as and when required.
- Make timely records which are concise, accurate, written for the service user to understand, using Together computer-based systems.
- Write clear word processed and handwritten reports (training provided) and records.
- Maintain professional boundaries in all aspects of work with service users.
- Previous residential support
- Enhanced DBS within the last 12 months.
- Knowledge of working with those with mixed mental health conditions