Hybrid Wellbeing Worker - Southwark Wellbeing Hub chez Together for Mental Wellbeing
Together for Mental Wellbeing · Southwark, Royaume-Uni · Hybrid
- Junior
- Bureau à Southwark
The role involves supporting people experiencing mental distress providing a welcoming, safe and compassionate environment at Southwark Wellbeing Hub. Workers will support people to devise safety plans, work on coping techniques, identify personal goals and connect people to resources in their local area.
Key Responsibilities
Functional Responsibilities
- Build and maintain trusting relationships with service users to foster engagement.
- Provide empathetic and professional support to individuals in mental distress.
- Assist service users in setting, prioritizing, and achieving personal goals to enhance hope, motivation, and ambition.
- Collaborate with individuals to develop and review assessments, safety management plans, and personalized recovery support plans.
- Contribute to safeguarding individuals from abuse and self-harm.
- Recognize and value lived experiences, encouraging peer support and service improvement.
- Communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds, including marginalized or minority groups.
- Share knowledge, skills, and experiences within the team while maintaining confidentiality.
- Collaborate with external professionals and make referrals to community resources.
- Record and report activities and outcomes, highlighting examples of good practice.
- Maintain concise, accurate, and user-friendly records using Together’s computer-based systems.
- Participate in mandatory and job-related training, demonstrating commitment to continuous professional development.
- Uphold professional boundaries in all interactions with service users.
- Be available to work evenings and weekends.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Essential
- Minimum of GCSE or Level II qualification in English, or equivalent
- Experience of working alongside individuals experiencing mental distress and in partnership with them
- Able to establish and maintain a safe environment
- Willing and able to collaborate with colleagues and other organisations
- Basic competence in the use of email and word processing software and computerised systems for service user records and reports
- Demonstrate problem-solving skills relating to housing, welfare benefits, education and relationships
- Able to produce clear records and reports in English
Desirable
- Experience in supporting vulnerable individuals gained from paid work and/or voluntary and/or life experience
- Lived experience of mental distress
- NVQ Level II in Health and Social Care, or equivalent
Job Benefits
The benefits of working for Together
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