Mental Health Support Worker | Manchester

Position: Mental Health Support Worker

Job Type: Full Time, Bank

Salary: £13.45 per hour

Location: Manchester

Employer: Bloomcare

Vacancies

We are currently looking to grow our already established and dedicated team of Mental Health Support Workers to join our team at Lighthouse Care!

We provide specialist residential support for adults living with enduring and complex mental health needs, often alongside alcohol and substance misuse challenges. Our service is focused on promoting recovery, independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes for every individual we support.

This role is ideally suited to candidates with previous experience supporting adults with complex mental health needs, dual diagnosis, challenging behaviours, and risk management. We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants who are available to start immediately or within a short notice period.

Our ideal support worker will:

• Have more than 6 months experience working within services supporting those with mental health issues and or substance misuse
• Be reliable, friendly and caring to help our residents achieve their everyday goals
• Have the ability to support in house activities and hobbies
• Be attentive and inspire our service users to achieve more!
• Example resilience to help manage some behaviours that challenge

Hours and contracts

Shift Patterns:

Days = 8am – 8pm

Nights = 8pm – 8am

Rate of Pay

£13.45 per hour

Contract Types:

Full time and Bank available

Benefits and Rewards

• Comprehensive induction, on-going training and development, access to paid NVQ training
• Free DBS*
• 28 days annual leave*
• Food provided while on shift
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Uniform provided
• Free on site parking
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, cinema, dining, days out and much more.

Bloomcare values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community, reflecting the population it serves. We only recruit the best and in return for your commitment the company offers an attractive salary and benefits.

Bloomcare is not able to accept applications from candidates who are living and working abroad. We are not currently accepting external sponsorship applications at this time.

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