Job summary
Mental Health Support Worker
Location - Lincoln
£11.55 per hour
Hours
12 hour contracts 1x12 hour shift per week during the day.
Role Description Mental Health Support Worker
Gray Healthcare are recruiting a new team of mental health support workers within the Lincoln area to support a gentleman in his 40's who has a diagnosis of Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia, COPD and Heart Failurewho be living independently in his own home receiving 1:1 support 24 hours a day.
Main duties of the job
The gentleman we will be supporting has a good sense of humour, enjoys going out to local cafes and DJing on his deck. He will be supported by a mixed gender team on mixed shifts of days and waking nights
About us
Induction and Training
We provide an initial week of training which is a combination of online training. (Company induction, systems, and Medication.) Followed by in-person training on PROACT-SCIPr-UK which is a PBS approach to least restrictive practice, this is a therapeutic and proven alternative to restraint dominate approaches. You will then complete the person-centred training, specific to the person that you are supporting. Training continues throughout your time with Gray Healthcare, and we encourage you to develop and grow your career with us.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Fully paid induction and training
- Company pension
- Professional development
- 25 days annual leave
- Your birthday off
- Westfield health plan
- £1500 retention bonus
- Blue light card
About Us
Gray Healthcare is a specialist Health and Social Care provider, supporting people with complex needs, disabilities and long-term conditions looking to step back into the community from in-patient support services. At Gray Healthcare, we offer our own dynamic approach to care, enabling people to move back into their own homes - into their own communities giving them control of their life. We create a bespoke support package for each individual, with support from our own multi-disciplinary team, adaptable to meet all current and future needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The delivery of high quality, effective, safe and individualised support that contributes to the quality of life of the person you support
Building a rapport/ relationship with the person you support and ensuring that person is given every opportunity to pursue a full, rewarding and enjoyable life.
Raising any safeguarding concerns and taking action to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of people you support, staff and others
Adhering to internal compliance and clinical governance procedures and complying with external regulatory frameworks
Adhering to organisational policies and procedures
Ensuring you have the skills for the role by completing all mandatory training; actively participating in one-to-one's and annual reviews
Ensuring systems are updated in a concise and professional manner and reviewed within the correct time-frames; following company
processes such as requesting annual leave within the operational needs of the service, adhering to the rota etc
Job description
Job responsibilities
The delivery of high quality, effective, safe and individualised support that contributes to the quality of life of the person you support
Building a rapport/ relationship with the person you support and ensuring that person is given every opportunity to pursue a full, rewarding and enjoyable life.
Raising any safeguarding concerns and taking action to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of people you support, staff and others
Adhering to internal compliance and clinical governance procedures and complying with external regulatory frameworks
Adhering to organisational policies and procedures
Ensuring you have the skills for the role by completing all mandatory training; actively participating in one-to-one's and annual reviews
Ensuring systems are updated in a concise and professional manner and reviewed within the correct time-frames; following company
processes such as requesting annual leave within the operational needs of the service, adhering to the rota etc
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Social care experience, ideally within mental health and with some experience of supporting individuals with Schizophrenia.
- Experience providing encouragement to a person with complex health needs and Learning Disabilities.
- Experience supporting individuals with behaviours which may be considered challenging.
- Experience implementing detailed care plans and risk assessments.
- You must have current Right to Work in the UK and have been employed in the UK for at least 6 months. We no longer have any certificates of sponsorship available and are unable to consider sponsorship.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Social care experience, ideally within mental health and with some experience of supporting individuals with Schizophrenia.
- Experience providing encouragement to a person with complex health needs and Learning Disabilities.
- Experience supporting individuals with behaviours which may be considered challenging.
- Experience implementing detailed care plans and risk assessments.
- You must have current Right to Work in the UK and have been employed in the UK for at least 6 months. We no longer have any certificates of sponsorship available and are unable to consider sponsorship.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
