Mental Health Support Worker

As a Mental Health Support Worker, you will provide a flexible, supportive and responsive service to people who have a significant history of mental ill health and distress.

You will be passionate, inspirational, open minded and most importantly you will be yourself. Every day is different you will get a buzz from the variety of challenges you’ll face each shift and make a real difference to the lives of service users.

Your approach to supporting people will be recovery focused, enabling people to make lasting changes and achieve their personal goals. You will have a creative attitude to your work and possess the skills to build positive therapeutic relationships.

What’s essential is that you love what you do. We want you to enjoy coming to work every day and to care about your job, your colleagues and our service users.

So, do you have:

• Experience of building and maintaining positive working relationships

·         Great interpersonal skills including listening and empathy

• The ability to work collaboratively and positively with clients, carers, and other service providers

Then we think this role would be great for you!

What’s in it for you?

You’ll make a difference to people’s lives from the moment you start. You will benefit from:

·         Commitment to flexible working

·         Hybrid Working (where applicable)

·         25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days

·         Many learning and career development opportunities, with paid and tailored training

·         Free Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 including access to counselling and GP services.

·         Employer contributory pension scheme

·         Good maternity, paternity, and adoption benefits

·         Care workers discounts

·         Incremental pay progression

·         Access to our Employee Networks including People of Colour & LGBTQ+

·         Health and wellbeing opportunities

·         Cycle to Work Scheme

·         Access to Corporate Health Plan

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diverse and exciting region we serve and are also proudly and actively anti-racist as such you are expected to drive the agenda forward.

As an organisation we believe people can only be at their best and thrive when they can be their authentic self!

We encourage you to apply early as your application will be reviewed as soon as it is received, and we reserve the right to close this job advert sooner subject to finding a suitable candidate.

Good Luck!