Senior Support Worker post at Cygnet Lodge Salford, a level 2 high support inpatient rehabilitation service for 24 women run by Cygnet Health Care. The work centres on supporting women with mental illness, often with a complex secondary diagnosis such as a personality disorder, through physical and emotional care and safeguarding. It is a full-time post of 42 hours a week on 12-hour day, night and weekend shifts, with supervisory and administrative responsibilities alongside frontline care. Successful applicants must pass an enhanced DBS check.
What the job involves
- Deliver enhanced, individualised care with a flexible learning approach to each person in the service
- Give physical and emotional support, guidance and encouragement
- Learn each individual's specific needs and meet them in the most appropriate way
- Assist with medical and welfare needs and report as required
- Safeguard individuals in the service
- Support management in the day-to-day running of the service
- Undertake supervisory and administrative responsibilities
- Maintain a safe and clean environment for all
What’s required
Experience
- Experienced support worker in mental health care, ready to step up to a new challenge
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent communication and good team working
- Confident, assertive and ambitious for individuals, the service and the organisation
- Sensitive and intuitive, able to create a trusting, stimulating and varied environment
- Able to empower and support service user independence
- Organised and committed
- Keen to develop management and leadership skills
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
Other
- Genuinely driven to make a difference in people's lives
What’s offered
- Opportunities for further learning and career development
- Flexible working with opportunities for overtime
- Regular coaching and appraisal
- Expert supervision and peer support
- Employee discount savings
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Recruitment referrals
- Wellbeing centre with exercises, recipes, and financial and mental health advice
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
