Female Mental Health Support Worker

An exciting opportunity has become available to work within our growing Venture Onward Service . We have full-time or part-time roles available for female Mental Health Support Workers.

Some of the reasons our existing team work for us are:

• an interest in mental health and/or wanting to gain clinical experience.
• the diversity of the role.
• wanting job satisfaction and a rewarding career.
• working in the community to enable people to live their best life and create independence.
• wanting to work for a people centred and supportive organisation.

Does this resonate with you? Then we would love to hear from you!

We provide bespoke, community-based support packages to individuals with a complex need, including a mental health diagnosis and autism spectrum disorder. Our clients may have spent an extended period on hospital or other setting.

We work with a person-centred approach; empowering individuals to become as independent as possible within their own home.

Your role will be delivering quality support that enables people to achieve their outcomes by using and developing person-centred support plans. You will be able to manage risks and vulnerabilities whilst promoting social inclusion and maximising the opportunities for the people you support.

You will be supporting one individual to integrate back into home following a period of being an in-patient. This Mental Health Support Worker role will include evenings and weekend working on a rolling rotation.

This Mental Health Support Worker role would suit candidates with experience as a Recovery Worker or Support Worker or an enthusiasm for developing their skills in mental health, neurodiversity, and outreach support.

Benefits

• Working in a varied and dynamic working environment.
• Competitive rates of pay (£23,004 - £26,278 per annum pro rata) up to 45 hours per week.
• Benefits scheme.
• Full induction training.
• Continued professional development.
• Flexible working including evenings and weekends.
• Excellent support from experienced management and the wider clinical leadership team.
• An opportunity to get involved in this new and exciting service from the ground up.

Essential Skills

To be successful in this Mental Health Support Worker role. you should have:

• an enthusiasm and interest in working within the mental health sector.
• excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• a willingness to go the extra mile and a flexible approach that respects individual differences.
• an ability to work as part of a team as well as independently, using your initiative.

"Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010."

Desired Skills

It would be desirable for you to have had experience of supporting a person(s) with a mental health condition and within a community-based services.

Full training will be provided so if you feel you can embed our values and offer quality support to enable people to achieve their goals we want to hear from you!

About Company

Venture-People is an award-winning organisation, formed from our shared ambition to provide high quality and psychologically informed support.

We provide bespoke, community-based support to individuals with a complex need; including a mental health diagnosis, neurodiversity, or may have endured trauma. The people we support may have spent an extended period in hospital or other setting, therefore we utilise a person-centred approach; empowering individuals to become as independent as possible within their own home.

Essential Requirements

To be successful in this Mental Health Support Worker role. you should have:

• an enthusiasm and interest in working within the mental health sector.
• excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• a willingness to go the extra mile and a flexible approach that respects individual differences.
• an ability to work as part of a team as well as independently, using your initiative.

"Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010."