Support Officer

Location Wandsworth
Job type Permanent
Salary £26,037 per year
Reference 205518

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Mental Health Support Worker to work full-time based in a children's home in Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Residential Childcare Support officer job is £26,037.

Main duties:

  • Carry out assessment to identify and prioritize needs.
  • Use SMART goal planning to provide needs led holistic support.
  • Create an environment that promotes opportunities for customers to develop, learn and enable skills towards independence.
  • Provide a comprehensive support planning service to customers in line with the department’s policies, procedures, and approach.
  • Ensure customers are fully informed of their rights and responsibilities regarding the service and are enabled and empowered to get involved in the running of the service through consultation and participation.
  • Set up and maintain customer files and ensure that accurate and up to date records are kept of support provided to customers in accordance with HCS policies.

Requirements of this job:

  • Be eager to learn and develop.
  • Be compassionate.
  • Have experience and understanding of Mental Health
  • Ideally come from a strong administration background.
  • Have previous experience of supporting individuals with Mental Health
  • Have prior experience in a support role essential.
  • Have experience of undertaking customer assessments, support planning and key-working
  • Can communicate effectively in writing including the preparation of letters reports & file notes.
  • Have knowledge and understanding of up-to-date legislation, government frameworks relevant to the customer group.
  • Understanding of safeguarding adults

Contact:

This job is advertised by Maisie Price; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable adjustments:

 If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.