Support Worker or Senior Support Worker

Specific duties and responsibilities vary depending on the specific role and service; however, all of our support workers and senior support workers are supported by a team of qualified professionals. Duties include:

1. To develop knowledge and understanding of the lived experience of people in your care so that you can provide the right support that will meet their own identified needs.
2. To advocate for your service users so that they are at the forefront of designing their own mental health care and support and so that their voice is heard at all levels.
3. To develop supportive and caring relationships with individual service users and to provide daily support through encouragement, understanding, and motivation.
4. To deliver prescribed 1:1 and group interventions within the scope of the support plan, with care and compassion. This may include, but is not exhaustive:

1. Budgeting, benefits, and welfare rights
2. Diet, exercise, and well-being
3. Planning, shopping, and cooking of meals
4. Education, occupation, training, and development
5. Healthy lifestyle, healthy choices
6. Activities of daily living
7. Administering of oral medication
8. Rest, relaxation, and vocation

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