Support Worker (Mental Health)

Gosbloom is currently recruiting for a dedicated, passionate and skilled Recovery Support Worker to join a team at Beach House, West Sussex. The service provides high support housing to service users with enduring mental health backgrounds. The service consists of 8 flats and offers a full recovery and rehabilitation package to their service users.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITY
You will provide recovery focused support to service users in accordance with their support plans. You will have well-honed skills in positive communication, engagement, and will be able to demonstrate unconditional positive regard for service users.
You will have the maturity to work within a positive framework supporting clients. You will have the ability to deliver services and interventions in a person centred, non-judgmental manner, and recovery-based way.
You will work alongside members of the service user's circle of support, to enable individuals to be happy, healthy, and successful in achieving their life goals.
Your typical duties will include:

• providing support and guidance to service users


• administering medication


• daily record keeping and incident report writing


• running group activities


• upholding the cleanliness of the service to adhere to infection prevention control measures

You will be required to work in a flexible manner on a roster basis including office hours, evenings, some weekends and sleep-ins.

Previous experience in the mental health sector is essential as is a genuine desire to support individuals in their recovery and a can-do attitude.
We need compassionate, proactive and professional individuals who are highly motivated, hardworking and keen to support service users with mental health and complex care needs. Being a good communicator is essential, to be able to get on with people of all ages and from all backgrounds, and you will also be liaising with other professionals.
We value the personal skills and interests you can bring to the role and to the lives of the service users we support, such as: sports, arts and crafts, music and cooking to name but a few.