Mental Health Support Worker LOCATION:              GuildfordSALARY:                  £13.25 Basic | £55 per sleep inDURATION:Temp – PermHOURS:                         Fulltime – every other weekend off and X2 sleeps-ins per week                 (Shifts:Early 8.30am-3.30pm | Late 2.30pm–10pm | Sleep-in 10pm-7am) Note: WE ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE SPONSORSHIP OR SUPPORT THOSE ON A SKILLED WORKER VISA. Daily Duties

• 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.

Essential requirements

• Previous residential support
• Enhanced DBS within the last 12 months.

Desirable requirements

• Knowledge of working with those with mixed mental health conditions

For more information on this role please contact Emily Rex on