Senior Support Worker

If you care for others without a second thought and are looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference and changes lives for the better, then a Senior Recovery Worker at Beech Grove could be the right choice for you.

Whether you are looking for a new career or already work in healthcare through the NHS or private care, you’ll receive training to join the team where you will be valued and supported, with career development opportunities available.

It’s a career that you can take pride in while enjoying the satisfaction of helping people and seeing them improve. It’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

• Due to the expansion of the service we are actively recruiting for Senior Support Workers_

What you will be doing

You will join the qualified and experienced team that works well together to provide care for people with complex mental health needs within our hospital and community houses. Whether you have been a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker or a Care Worker,you will utilise your experience to support people to lead a valued and fulfilled life. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team at Three Valleys Hospital, you will support service users as they begin their recovery, transitioning from a hospital setting into assisted community living which focuses on developing life skills, confidence andencourages independent living.

It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week because of you.

There are also career development opportunities in abundance. With a huge range of courses that will see you grow and succeed. If you have the aspiration, capability and dedication, we can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your careergoals.

The shift patterns include working nights and weekends, 12 hours a day, 3-4 days a week.

Duties include :

• Assistant service users with their day to day activities
• Contributing to individual recovery journeys
• Promoting independence and empowerment
• Writing and updating care plans
• Promoting activities and supporting service users with in-house and community based rehabilitation

The role in our community houses involves independent lone working, medication administration and contributing to CPA’s, therefore some previous knowledge and experience is required.

You will need :

• A true passion to work in mental health
• A positive, can-do attitude <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-fa