Support Lead

Support Lead

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week (5 days), full-time.
Salary: £27,745 per annum
Contract: Permanent

Looking for an opportunity to make a real difference at one of London’s leading mental health charities? 
We know that housing and mental health are often linked. Poor mental health makes it hard to cope with housing problems, and housing problems can make mental health worse. With this in mind, we are proud to present this exciting role in our Floating Support Service. This service support people to live independently, and continues to be the only floating support service in the London Borough of Wandsworth. We’re looking for a mental health professional to join our passionate and dynamic team. You will support the Service Manager to manage the team while delivering high quality effective services. We’re a motivated, engaged, and efficient team, all working towards the same ambition. We’re committed to hiring diversely and inclusively, and to supporting those that join us to develop skills and reach their potential. We’re especially keen to hear from those who are innovative, adaptable, and highly creative. If you think you embody our vision, culture, and principles, please get in touch! 

You will:

• Provide support for the Service Manager in the Wandsworth Floating Support Team. 
• Work directly with a small caseload of service users, delivering support to enable independence and mental health recovery. 
• Carry out and evidence regular assessments of support needs; drawing up, implementing, monitoring and reviewing support plans, risk assessment and outcomes monitoring. 
• Promote independence, wellbeing, inclusion, and resilience. 
• Provide line management and ‘hands-on’ support to the staff team when complex support issues arise, or breaches of tenancy occur and take charge when there is a major incident. 

You are:

• Someone with experience within a visiting support, supported housing team and/or a floating support team. 
• Knowledgeable and experienced in working directly with people with mental health needs, including experience of working in a recovery-based service.
• Able to support planning and mental health recovery approaches with a compassionate and empathetic approach.
• Experienced in working across multi-agency approaches to health, including social services, landlords, and other service providers.
• Able to work cohesively and collaboratively within a team.
• Someone with a wide range of life experience, effective communication skills, and able to demonstrate degree level academic experience.
• Competent in using computer programmes and databases.

About us

We’re a leading community-based organisation dedicated to providing outstanding mental health support and clinical interventions across London. Our experienced clinically led teams are focused on directly addressing a range of mental health needs in our communities. We combine innovative solutions with decades of local community knowledge to empower people to live the life they choose. We partner with the NHS and local authorities to deliver clinically driven frontline services with fantastic outcomes. We focus on early intervention and prevention, targeting mental health conditions at the most cost-effective stage, while also supporting people with 
moderate to severe mental health needs across our communities.
 
Benefits

• Hybrid-working if nature of role permits
• Learning and development opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme (interest free lone paid back 12 months period)
• Employee Assistance Programme A 24-hour helpline from Health Assured to support you through any of life’s issues or problems
• Free eye test
• Flexible working
• Interest free loan, those in financial hardship

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