Senior Support Worker
Are you looking for a rewarding and interesting job within a friendly and supportive team? BHT Sussex is looking for a Senior Support Worker to join our team at Archway. The Senior Support Worker will play a vital role in providing support at the Archway project, which is a residential service for adults with mental health care and support needs. Archway is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and has a rating of ‘Outstanding’ .
Position : Senior Support Worker
Location : Hove (Sackville Gardens)
Salary : £29,214 per annum (£27,745 + £1,469 Anti-Social Hours Enhancement)
Hours : 37 hours per week
Contract : Permanent
Closing Date : 5 November 2024
Interview Date : 13 November 2024
About the Role:
As a Senior Support Worker, you will be working for a people-led organisation whose mission and values are to inspire change across Sussex. You will be supporting the team and clients with the delivery of person-centred care and support to empower people to live with greater independence and improve their wellbeing.
As a Senior Support Worker at Archway, you will provide collaborative support and practical assistance to vulnerable clients with mental health diagnoses and complex support needs. You will work in a psychologically and trauma-informed way to promote personal development and empower individuals to achieve their goals. You will undertake numerous tasks such as supporting clients in their transition in and out of the service, providing support to clients to settle into the community post-discharge, promoting meaningful engagement, coordinating the daily diary and tasks, attending appointments, key working, co-producing outcomes star support plans and risk assessments, supporting to maintain health and safety, the safe administration of medications, and facilitating reflective practice and continuous development.
The Senior Support Worker will work in line with the project’s manager and deputy manager to provide support and guidance to a team of mental health recovery workers, volunteers, interns, and students. You will also play a pivotal role in supporting and developing the team, leading shifts, and helping the team to advance their knowledge and skills. You will receive training to develop your skills and knowledge every year to aid your development.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide an excellent standard of emotional, practical, and housing-related support to clients using a positive, empowering, recovery-focused approach.
* Coordinate a team to complete daily tasks and ongoing service development activities, including medication administration and health and safety.
* Liaise with benefits agencies, move-on services, and other relevant statutory and voluntary agencies in providing support to clients.
* Provide 1:1 support to a caseload of clients and lead client move-in/out task management.
* Facilitate reflective practice and supervision to volunteers, interns, and students.
* Develop comprehensive risk assessments for clients, ensuring these are kept up to date.
* Collaboratively create support plans with clients using Outcome Star and SMART goals with a strengths-based recovery approach.
* Participate in a work rota, which will include shifts and weekend working (2-week rolling rota, Shifts: Early: 09:00-17:00, Lates: 12:00 – 20:00, and fortnightly weekends).
* Participate in a management on-call rota.
About Archway:
Archway is a residential service offering 24-hour support for those with mental health care and support needs. The service provides holistic, person-centred, and recovery-focused care, which encourages independence by focusing on clients’ strengths and goals. We work closely with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust adult mental health services to meet the needs of clients. We help bridge the gap between hospital and the community by encouraging people to develop a greater understanding of what keeps them well, safe, and motivated, and we value collaborative working and co-production. The support the service offers to clients includes 1:1 support via a keyworker and team support, support to maintain positive mental and physical wellbeing, medication administration, the provision of food and meal support, development of daily living skills, budgeting support including welfare benefits, social and wellbeing activities, and support to identify future accommodation opportunities.
Archway consists of three residential properties in Hove. This role will work across the Sackville Gardens services Archway - BHT Sussex .
We have a recovery and person-centred focus, working collaboratively with residents in intensive short-term placements. The aim is to enable people to move on to more independent living.
Step Down (Sackville Gardens) is a 5-bed service providing short-term (up to 16 weeks), intensive support for people who are medically fit to leave hospital and need support to develop their independence to move into longer-term accommodation.
Sackville Gardens is a 5-bed service providing long-term placements for people requiring 24-hour residential care and support with the aim of helping clients move on to less supported accommodation. This is a new addition to the Archway service.
Portland Road is a 9-bed service providing long-term placements for people requiring 24-hour residential care and support with the aim of helping clients move on to less supported accommodation.
In return:
In recognition of our commitment to staff, BHT Sussex has been awarded Gold Accreditation from Investors in People. We are also signed up to the Disability Confident employer scheme and have made the Mental Health at Work commitment.
You will also receive a fantastic benefits package including:
* 5.5% stakeholder pension scheme and life assurance scheme.
* Medical cash plan with Medicash.
* Access to BHT Learning & Development platform.
* Free and confidential employee assistance helpline for both personal and work-related concerns.
* Cycle-to-work scheme.
* Free new starter 28-day Network Saver Brighton bus pass.
* Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days per annum pro rata, rising 1 day for each year of service to a maximum of 32 days pro rata.
* The opportunity to participate in well-being and fundraising activities throughout the year.
BHT Sussex is an equal opportunities employer using a fair and open recruitment process that fully complies with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to encouraging equality, equity, inclusion, and diversity within the workplace. As an employer, we are committed to promoting and supporting our people’s social, physical, and psychological health at work. Please let us know if you require any special arrangements or reasonable adjustments if called for an interview. BHT Sussex welcomes applications from individuals with lived experience.
An Enhanced with Adults DBS Check (Disclosure and Barring Service) is required on all successful applicants as a condition of employment for this post.
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