Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 8 - 28 hours per week
Salary: £23,658.53
Based at: Newtown, Powys
Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Adferiad Recovery harnesses the talents and experience of long-established and leading Welsh charities CAIS, Hafal and WCADA. Our combined expertise in the fields of substance use, mental health, housing, criminal justice, and employment support enables Adferiad Recovery to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.
Under the direction of the All-Wales Domiciliary Care Registered Manager Adferiad operates domiciliary care services in it’s extra care scheme Llys Glan Yr Afon. In line with our commitment to principles of empowerment, self-management, wellbeing and recovery and ensuring compliance with internal and external quality standards inspection and regulation (including CIW).
This is an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated support team based at Llys Glan Yr Afon, based in Newtown.
Llys Glan Yr Afon comprises of 48 individual apartments offering those that live there, independent living with access to on-site 24-hour care and support. The service is generic and therefore supports individuals with a wide age range and variety of support needs - including physical disability, mental health, learning disability and frailty.
As a support worker you will be working 1:1 (occasionally 2:1) as part of a dedicated support team providing individuals with day-to-day living support which may include support with personal care, medication, manual handling and social inclusion, while focusing on promoting the wellbeing, rights and independence of the individual, and achieving their identified and desired outcomes.
Rosters are carefully created and managed to ensure continuity of support staff for individuals and promote good work/life balance for support staff.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
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