Mental Health Housing Support Worker

Across our services in Worcestershire - Kidderminster and Worcester

Temporary 6 months fixed term, full time (37.5 hpw), 24hr service working on a rota - including sleep in shifts

Pay £12 per hour (£23, 464 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have mental health needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!

Typical day as our Support Worker

• Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
• Support our customers who have a Mental Health Diagnosis, to manage independently in their own home.
• Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
• Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
• Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the Top Ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You bring

• Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
• Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children
• The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
• Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs
• To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage

Our team

You’ll join Katie and Claire our managers, and the Worcestershire support team we’re super passionate about what we do! Outside of work, Katie can often be found getting stuck into various DIY projects or baking up a storm, and Claire can be found in the gym keeping fit! Our team are really proud of our service providing excellent support to customers who live in Worcestershire with mental health conditions rebuild their independent living skills. We’re a supportive bunch and like to get together socially on a regular basis.

Job details

• Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers.
• You’ll work in a 24hr service, completing your share of late nights, weekends and bank holidays and sleep in shifts. Staff tend to condense their hours so that they complete all their hours over days so they get more days off!
• You will be covering services within Worcestershire - you will be expected to cover the different services as needed - therefore you will be working within the services in Kidderminster and Worcester as well as our dispersed and outreach service - due to this you will need to have a full driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
• Although you’ll lone work, we do get together regularly for training and team meetings.
• It’s a service based role so you’ll get to know our customers well and be a major role in their recovery! You will support the customers with all different tasks such as supporting customers to attend their volunteering placements at local allotments, supporting customers to maintain their properties or completing their weekly shop in Tesco. No two days are the same!
• You’re able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Support Worker Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk