SER are currently working alongside a Mental Health Service based in the Basildon, Essex area who are currently seeking a Flexible Support Worker to join their team on a Bank contract. Therapeutic optimism is at the heart of all the work carried out by this Mental Health Service, believing all clients with mental health needs can achieve and make positive changes to their lives as they move along their pathway of recovery.
Position: Bank Flexible Support Worker (Days) & Bank Waking Nights Flexible Support Worker
Location: Basildon, Essex
Contract: Bank
Salary: £12pr hr (Statutory Bank Holiday Rate £24 pr hr)
Closing Date: 10th November 2024
Short Listing: 11th November 2024
Interview: Face to Face interviews will take place week of 18th November 2024
About this role:
The Bank Flexible Support Worker will be responsible for providing support to clients with enduring mental ill health, to live valued lives within the community. This will include the provision of personal, emotional, and social care. To work closely with clients and relatives/carers, protecting their dignity, choice, self-esteem, and well-being at all times
Essential Requirements:
• A good standard of education and relevant skills, knowledge, and experience
• Experience of supporting clients move on to independence within a time defined recovery path
• Experience of working with adults with enduring mental health needs or a similar field
• Understanding of Dual Diagnosis and complex needs
• Knowledge of The Mental Health Act
• Able to work flexibly across 7 days a week on a shift rota basis
Applying for a role with this Service will open the door to joining an organisation that has been awarded, at excellence level, the Healthy Workplace Charter 2019 and retained its Mindful Employer Status for a further two years 2024 – 2026.
This Mental Health Service cares passionately about all aspects of their staff’s working life. This spans from how workers feel about their duties and providing them with meaningful work, giving their employees a voice in accepting and utilising feedback, to their working environment ensuring quality and safety of the physical environments for all, and finally a leadership team with a focus on its people.
If you would like to join this amazing team, please send your CV along with a cover letter.
This post is subject to the requirements of a six-month probationary period and satisfactory pre right to work checks.