Position: Support Worker
Location: Wolverhampton
Contract: Part Time
Salary: £13.01 per hour
Full job description
Job Title – Mental Health Support Worker
Location – Blakeley Green, Green Lane, Wolverhampton WV6 9HU
Salary – £13.01 per hour
Working hours – 16 hours (days)
Shift Patterns – Monday to Friday 09.00-17.00pm
As Support worker you will be required to be available for these times.
About the role
Support at Home provides accommodation for customers at Blakeley Green
Our service aims to empower residents by helping them build essential skills for independent living within the community.
Supporting individuals as they transition from hospital care or prevent hospital admission through early intervention.
In addition, we provide:
Offering a safe and supportive environment
Possible long-term accommodation focusing on recovery and independence
Our beds are available to individuals with a primary diagnosis of mental ill health.
This support helps reduce disruption to people`s lives by providing care in a homely setting
Located in a residential areas of Wolverhampton, Support at home offers calm, community-based environment for recovery and growth.
About you
- Experienced working within a mental health environment.
- Have strong communication and listening skills, enabling you to support service users in a calm, empathetic and empowering way. Be patient, resilient, and able to remain emotionally grounded when supporting individuals experiencing distress or crisis.
- Be comfortable working both independently and as part of a team, contributing effectively to care planning, risk awareness, and recovery-focused support.
- Understand the importance of professional boundaries, confidentiality, and safeguarding, and are confident in recording clear, accurate notes.
- The ability to be a natural care giver and someone who can communicate in an open and honest manner with your colleagues, residents and their visitors.
Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require an enhanced DBS check to be completed. We will provide this for you.
About us
We are GSA, we provide affordable homes and services that create a foundation from which people in our communities can thrive.
We own and manage 25,000 homes in diverse communities across the West Midlands and Southwest.
Everyone deserves a home, it`s a place from which we build our future, we thrive at home.
We are proud to play an active role in dealing with the consequences of the housing crisis, by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most.
Often a home is all someone needs, but when our customers need more, we offer a range of services, including care, money advice and coaching to support them.
We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system.
The GSA Way
We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way.
A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is.
Our five core commitments are:
We believe our customer is everything
We are one team
We are supportive and caring
We are business-minded for social purpose
We are curious and ambitious.
You can read more about the GSA Way in our recruitment pack.
Benefits
In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes:
- Trust based flexible working and supportive and friendly teams
- 20 days annual holiday entitlement, increasing to 22 days
- Opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
- A defined contribution pension scheme GSA matches up to 6% contributions
- We offer a service which provides 24/7 online GP appointments, second medical opinions, health checks, mental health support, 24/7 medical health helpline, wellbeing app, nutrition advice and fitness plans and legal and financial support.
- Access to Blue Light discount card membership
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Eligible for occupational sick pay
If this sounds like the exciting new challenge you`ve been waiting for, we`d love to hear from you.
All individuals who apply to work at GreenSquareAccord are considered on their merits in line with our Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policy.
GreenSquareAccord are a Disability Confident Employer therefore we actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and try to provide access, adjustments, equipment or other practical support where required. All applicants with a disability who meet the `essential eligibility criteria` for the role, as detailed in the job description, are guaranteed an interview.
If you need any assistance, adjustments or adaptations throughout our selection processes please let us know.
Application Process
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Application Deadline
Open until filled