Mental Health Project Worker
Description✓Central is currently recruiting for a Mental Health Project Worker to work in the Westminster area
✓This service provides support to vulnerable adults with a range of mental health support needs within supported accommodation to help them build individual confidence and interpersonal skills .
✓The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week [on average], working across Monday - Sunday on a rota basis, covering early, mid, late and long shifts
✓Please note: some weeks you will be working fewer or more than 37.5 hours per week
✓Cover is required for approximately 3 months
✓The pay rate for this role is £12.74 per hour, with £1.54 holiday pay, totalling £14.28 per hour.
✓In this position, you will be required to:
✓* Hold a caseload of 6-7 key clients and conduct regular key working sessions resulting in agreed support plans.
✓* Support service users develop necessary skills to sustain accommodation long term and improve their quality of life.
✓* Respond in a psychologically informed way to the challenges posed by complex needs in a residential setting
✓* Respond to and asses all referrals.
✓* Support service users ready to move to step down.
✓* Build and maintain effective relationships with all stakeholders, including other teams within, external agencies such as care teams & GPs/pharmacies
✓* Work with service users to maximise benefit entitlements and secure project income through efficient rent collection and the minimisation of arrears and void loss
✓* Support the development of independent budgeting skills
✓* Participate in housing management procedures, such as room checks, locality checks and Health and Safety checks
✓* Facilitate programmes built around the specific needs, interests, and hobbies of the service users
✓To apply for this role, you must have;
✓* Experience working with vulnerable adults including mental health.
✓* An understanding of how trauma and adversity have the potential to create re-occurring incidences of multiple disadvantage, homelessness and mental distress
✓* An awareness of the Care Act 2014 and demonstrable understanding of what it means for service users.
✓* Experience working within a psychologically informed environment [PIE] model.
✓* The ability to build relationships with people who may be reluctant to trust or work with you, whilst maintaining professional boundaries
✓* The ability to navigate complex mental health systems and specialities
✓* An understanding of the multiple issues that can lead to homelessness and how such experiences can impact service users.
✓* Strong I.T skills including the use of Microsoft Office programmes.
✓Candidates must confirm their interest as soon as possible, with interviews scheduled shortly after and the appointed candidate expected to start as soon as possible.
✓Further requirements:
✓In order to register with Central Recruitment Services for temporary agency work, candidates must meet the following criteria:
✓* Current valid right to work in the UK
✓* Minimum 12 months’ of paid experience in a front line social care role within the last 3 years* [unless recruitment criteria states otherwise]
✓* A fully enhanced DBS either registered on the DBS update service or issued within the last 12 months, or willingness to apply for one through Central [at a cost of £50]
✓* Employment or education history to cover the last 5 years which can be verified through the referencing process
✓How to apply:
✓If you feel that you fully meet the above outlined criteria for this role and would like apply for this post, please forward your CV for consideration.
✓*Please note the outlined experience is the 'minimum' first stage criteria, and we will therefore be unable to consider your application unless you are able to demonstrate a relevant work history in line with this position Show more →
✓This service provides support to vulnerable adults with a range of mental health support needs within supported accommodation to help them build individual confidence and interpersonal skills .
✓The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week [on average], working across Monday - Sunday on a rota basis, covering early, mid, late and long shifts
✓Please note: some weeks you will be working fewer or more than 37.5 hours per week
✓Cover is required for approximately 3 months
✓The pay rate for this role is £12.74 per hour, with £1.54 holiday pay, totalling £14.28 per hour.
✓In this position, you will be required to:
✓* Hold a caseload of 6-7 key clients and conduct regular key working sessions resulting in agreed support plans.
✓* Support service users develop necessary skills to sustain accommodation long term and improve their quality of life.
✓* Respond in a psychologically informed way to the challenges posed by complex needs in a residential setting
✓* Respond to and asses all referrals.
✓* Support service users ready to move to step down.
✓* Build and maintain effective relationships with all stakeholders, including other teams within, external agencies such as care teams & GPs/pharmacies
✓* Work with service users to maximise benefit entitlements and secure project income through efficient rent collection and the minimisation of arrears and void loss
✓* Support the development of independent budgeting skills
✓* Participate in housing management procedures, such as room checks, locality checks and Health and Safety checks
✓* Facilitate programmes built around the specific needs, interests, and hobbies of the service users
✓To apply for this role, you must have;
✓* Experience working with vulnerable adults including mental health.
✓* An understanding of how trauma and adversity have the potential to create re-occurring incidences of multiple disadvantage, homelessness and mental distress
✓* An awareness of the Care Act 2014 and demonstrable understanding of what it means for service users.
✓* Experience working within a psychologically informed environment [PIE] model.
✓* The ability to build relationships with people who may be reluctant to trust or work with you, whilst maintaining professional boundaries
✓* The ability to navigate complex mental health systems and specialities
✓* An understanding of the multiple issues that can lead to homelessness and how such experiences can impact service users.
✓* Strong I.T skills including the use of Microsoft Office programmes.
✓Candidates must confirm their interest as soon as possible, with interviews scheduled shortly after and the appointed candidate expected to start as soon as possible.
✓Further requirements:
✓In order to register with Central Recruitment Services for temporary agency work, candidates must meet the following criteria:
✓* Current valid right to work in the UK
✓* Minimum 12 months’ of paid experience in a front line social care role within the last 3 years* [unless recruitment criteria states otherwise]
✓* A fully enhanced DBS either registered on the DBS update service or issued within the last 12 months, or willingness to apply for one through Central [at a cost of £50]
✓* Employment or education history to cover the last 5 years which can be verified through the referencing process
✓How to apply:
✓If you feel that you fully meet the above outlined criteria for this role and would like apply for this post, please forward your CV for consideration.
✓*Please note the outlined experience is the 'minimum' first stage criteria, and we will therefore be unable to consider your application unless you are able to demonstrate a relevant work history in line with this position Show more →