Ref: 25/14 Female Senior Mental Health Support Worker
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Shift pattern: All shifts are 12 hour shifts. 4 days on, 4 days off, days and nights.
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays, employer’s contributory pension scheme, EAP scheme and other generous benefits.
Imagine Independence is a leading third sector organisation, passionate about supporting people with mental illness, neurodiversity, and behaviors that challenge to live as part of their community. Imagine exists to challenge the stigma that having a mental illness still brings. Imagine supports people to live meaningfully by nurturing their individuality and recognising the power of small steps.
Every day, Imagine’s staff and volunteers generously share their experience, knowledge, and talents with the people they support. Through their focused dedication to Imagine’s mission, and the courage to challenge the status quo, people feel valued. They know they are making both the ‘everyday’ and the ‘extraordinary’ become possible for everyone. They walk alongside the people they have the privilege to serve, helping to transform lives, one day at a time. And they never give up.
Do you want to become part of this amazing organisation? Imagine now needs a Senior Support Worker based in our service in Waterloo, where we support people with complex needs moving into their own home. This is a great time to join, as we continue to expand our services across the north-west of England and beyond.
Main Duties Include:
1. Work with individuals in transition from hospital to a community setting according to their care and support plan.
2. Take part in helping people draw up & follow their person-centered plan; follow set Positive Behaviour Support Plans.
3. Work in partnership with others to allow independence of choice.
4. Act with integrity and identify opportunities to celebrate achievements to allow a positive, respectful and trusting relationship to grow and support people to improve their confidence and self-esteem.
5. Support people to make informed choices around a healthy lifestyle including physical health and improving self-care.
Imagine is looking for candidates with previous experience of working in health and social care including complex needs, who may be looking for the next step in their career.
Imagine is a values-based recruiter and so it will be seeking to ensure that the successful candidate will align with the following:
* Meaningful Living: Using empathy to bring together diverse people and resources, to put the everyday within reach of everyone.
* Nurturing Individuality: Creating conditions that support people to be true to themselves and express their truth.
* Focused Dedication: Showing up each day hungry to do our best to learn and develop. We never give up on people.
* Challenging Ideas: Keeping our efforts real and centered on what matters most, we do not settle for the ordinary when better is possible.
* Generous Sharing: Giving of ourselves, our experiences and knowledge, to promote and provide a great service.
Completed application forms are to be returned either by email to recruitment@imagineindependence.org.uk or post to 25 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ.
Please note that CVs will not be considered.
An enhanced DBS will be required for this post.
Closing date for applications: 15th April 2025 at 9:00am.
Interviews are currently scheduled to take place on 23rd April 2025.
This post may be closed without notice if sufficient applications are received.
Under the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1: general occupational requirements), we only require Female candidates at the present time. These posts are open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational qualification under the Equality Act 2010.
Imagine aims to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all within Imagine.
Head Office: 25 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ
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