Vacancies

Female Mental Health Support Worker

Main Responsibility

Training

We don’t expect you to know everything when you join Gray Healthcare! We provide an initial week of training which is a combination of online training (company induction, systems, meds etc.) followed by in-person training on PROACT-SCIPr-UK which is a PBS approach to least restrictive practice, a therapeutic and proven alternative to restraint-dominant approaches. You will then complete the person-centred training, specific to the person that you are supporting. This could be PBS, epilepsy, ligature etc. and finally, you’ll complete shadow shifts.

Training continues throughout your time with Gray Healthcare and we encourage you to develop and grow your career with us.

Hours

We are looking for people to work the following shifts which equate to 36 hours per week:-

2 x 12 hour day shift 08.00am-20.00pm

2 x 6 hour back up shift- Times to be confirmed

About you

• We are looking for people who have worked in social care previously, ideally with Mental Health Experience.
• You must have current Right to Work in the UK and have been employed in the UK for at least 6 months. We are unable to offer sponsorship.

Recruitment Process

1. Telephone interview with specialist recruiter to go through the role in more detail and find out more about you and why you have applied.
2. TEAMS or Face to Face interview with Community Support Manager
3. Compliance & Background checks including employment references, Right To Work checks and Enhanced DBS.

The Ideal Candidate

Ideally, we are looking for individuals who have experience working nights previously in healthcare and live a commutable distance to the service. It is essential that individuals have experience supporting vulnerable individuals with Mental Health needs. Therefore, being positive and having a good sense of humour would be a strong match for this lady. It would be beneficial if to have some experience supporting others who also have a diagnosis of Emotional Unstable Personality Disorder.

You will be an instrumental part of the team and will receive outstanding clinical support, leadership, and person-centred training. In this role you will support an individual to develop or regain life skills, assisting participation in community life by building strong and trusting working relationships.

We are looking for people who have worked in social care previously. 

You must have current Right to Work in the UK and have 6 month's healthcare experience within in the United Kingdom.

We no longer have any certificates of sponsorship available.

Package Description

Gray Healthcare are looking for Female Support Workers in Blackpool and the surrounding areas to support a lady who has a diagnosis of complex mental health needs.

You must have experience of providing support to a person with complex mental health needs and behaviours that may be perceived as challenging within the UK as well as experience of understanding and implementing detailed care plans and risk assessments.

Gray Healthcare are different to most care providers in that that we are clinically informed.  That means that there is a team of clinicians including nurses, occupational therapists, and Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) specialists involved in developing the care and approach for each person that we support. This provides more direction to the Support teams; it is an inclusive approach that is proven to work to improve the lives and outcomes of the people that we support.