Hybrid Wellbeing Worker presso Together for Mental Wellbeing
Together for Mental Wellbeing · Reading, Regno Unito · Hybrid
- Junior
- Ufficio in Reading
The role involves supporting people experiencing mental distress providing a welcoming, safe and compassionate environment. Breathing Space offers a supportive environment for people as an alternative for A&E. Operational hours are 5pm-11pm Mondays to Sundays. Workers will work on a rota basis to support people to devise safety plans, work on coping techniques, identify personal goals and connect people to resources in their local area.
Key Responsibilities
• Establish and maintain relationships of trust with service users, in order to build engagement.
• Support people experiencing mental distress in an empathic, professional manner.
• Help service users to set, prioritise and achieve personal goals, to increase hope, motivation and ambition.
• Work alongside individuals to develop and review robust assessments, safety management plans and personalised recovery support plans.
• Contributing to the protection of individuals from the risk of abuse and self-harm.
• Value the lived experience of service users and enable them to use that experience to support each other and improve their experience of this Together service.
• To communicate effectively with individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds including people from marginalised or minority groups.
• To share knowledge, skills and experience within the team while observing confidentiality.
• Work with professionals from other agencies and make onward referrals, linking service users into other community opportunities.
• To record and report on activity and outcomes, sharing examples of good practice.
• Make timely records which are concise, accurate, written for the service user to understand, using Together computer-based systems.
• Participate in mandatory and job-related courses, learning activities and a commitment to own continuous professional development.
• Maintain professional boundaries in all aspects of work with service users.
• Work evenings
• Support people experiencing mental distress in an empathic, professional manner.
• Help service users to set, prioritise and achieve personal goals, to increase hope, motivation and ambition.
• Work alongside individuals to develop and review robust assessments, safety management plans and personalised recovery support plans.
• Contributing to the protection of individuals from the risk of abuse and self-harm.
• Value the lived experience of service users and enable them to use that experience to support each other and improve their experience of this Together service.
• To communicate effectively with individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds including people from marginalised or minority groups.
• To share knowledge, skills and experience within the team while observing confidentiality.
• Work with professionals from other agencies and make onward referrals, linking service users into other community opportunities.
• To record and report on activity and outcomes, sharing examples of good practice.
• Make timely records which are concise, accurate, written for the service user to understand, using Together computer-based systems.
• Participate in mandatory and job-related courses, learning activities and a commitment to own continuous professional development.
• Maintain professional boundaries in all aspects of work with service users.
• Work evenings
