Support Worker (Supported Accommodation) - Maternity Cover bei Together for Mental Wellbeing
Together for Mental Wellbeing · London, Vereinigtes Königreich · Onsite
- Optionales Büro in London
Job Purpose
- To assist service users to live their best lives by assisting them to exercise choice in order to:
- improve their mental health and wellbeing
- stay safe
- reduce loneliness
- increase social participation
- work towards goals
- develop their independence
- Support individual service users in accordance with the regulations laid down by the Care Quality Commission or the Care Act
Key Responsibilities
Functional Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain relationships of trust with service users, to build engagement
- Help service users to set, prioritise and achieve goals, managing their tenancies and move-ons
- Work flexibly with service users in their homes and in the community
- Carry out assessments and determine urgency of service user needs
- Work with professionals from other agencies, and make onward referrals, linking service users into community opportunities
- Carry out risk assessments, in order to keep service users safe and improve the quality of our support
- Attend placement reviews
- Work with service users on a 1:1 basis and in groups
- Assist service users to:
- deal with financial issues and navigate the benefits and education systems
- manage friendships and family relationships
- manage their medication, in accordance with Together procedures
- Accompany service users to appointments
- Assist service users to undertake domestic tasks such as cooking and cleaning, ensuring adherence to infection control (training provided)
- Assist service users with personal care as and when required
- Adhere to the Together policy on lone working
- Make timely records which are concise, accurate, written for the service user to understand, using Together computer-based systems
- Write clear word processed and handwritten reports (training provided) and records in English
- Participate in mandatory and job-related courses and learning activities
- Maintain professional boundaries in all aspects of work with service users
Job Benefits
The benefits of working for Together
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