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Our mission at Response is to enable people of all ages to live a more fulfilled life by providing excellent mental health services, housing, and supported living. Do you have the desire to empower and promote independence and an interest in mental health? Senior Mental Health Support Worker - £26,500 - £29,500 per annum (Salaries vary depending on experiences) Hours 37 hours per week, Monday Sunday, inclusive of bank holidays, shifts include mornings, evenings, weekends and sleep ins. Service Carramar, Thatcham, Berkshire. What You'll Be Doing: Response is looking for an enthusiastic, caring person to join their dedicated team at Carramar. The Carramar team focuses on providing care for clients in a 24 hour, 7 day a week supported housing service in Thatcham. The Carramar team creates a comfortable, safe and pleasant environment while helping residents work towards more independent living in the future. Our clients really appreciate the passion from our Support Workers too: "The staff are caring, kind, compassionate and understanding. They support me and care for me and are first class. I am happier now than I have been in years." Client in Adult Services. Overall job responsibility: Further detail can be viewed in the Job Description. Lead by example and take the role of Shift Lead - ensuring that all members of the team are aware of daily tasks and notes are completed and updated as appropriate. Be the first point of contact handling all queries and requests from internal and external partners responding in a timely manner, delegating as appropriate. Mentor and support new team members in their role. Responsible for leading on projects to enhance the service. Support the development of person-centred planning, ensuring resident's plans have meaningful and achievable goals. Support residents with medication concordance. Undertake an enabling role with the resident in daily tasks such as cleaning, shopping, budgeting, and household tasks that promote independent living. Lead and promote social inclusion work by introducing residents to leisure activities, new interests, education, or volunteering. Working with clinical teams, attending CPAs and multi-disciplinary team meetings. The Successful Applicant: Our main priority for all our roles at Response is to find people that can live our values every day Caring, Safe, Creative and Aspirational. Essential criteria: A good understanding of different types of mental health illnesses and the level of care some residents may require GCSE Maths and English, being IT literate due to the volume of paperwork required to be kept up to date Good organisational, communication, written and verbal skills and can work calmly in difficult and challenging situations What We Offer: 25 days annual leave and standard bank and public holidays. Blue Light card and other discounted shopping. Employee Assistant Programme - with access to free counselling. Cycle to Work Scheme (after probation) Enhanced family friendly leave. Professional qualification sponsorship and study leave. £500 refer a friend bonus scheme. Optional health cash care plan with money off prescriptions and treatments Wellbeing hub and mental wellbeing support app approved by NHS. Free flu jabs. Free DBS application. You will receive the training and confidence to use core therapeutic talk therapies such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Strength-based Trauma Informed Care and Mutual Aid to provide the best possible support to our clients. If this Senior Mental Health Support Worker position sounds like the role for you then please apply today! We would love to hear from you! This vacancy may be closed early. To learn more about Response and what we do, please visit our website: Response Mental Health Care & Support. All our roles require a DBS check, two references from most recent employers and you must have the right to work in the UK Unfortunately, Response are not able to offer sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for the role and require sponsorship, you will be withdrawn from the recruitment process. Our employees and clients come from all over the world, we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture and are registered as a Disability Confident Employer.
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to support children in the classroom? Do you want to help inspire and care for young people with additional needs? A fantastic SEN school in Thatcham are looking to appoint a creative and motivated Learning Support Assistant to help provide support the class teacher and give the students an extra helping hand. The role is Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 3:30pm. The school caters for students with a range of additional needs, including Autism, ADHD, Down Syndrome, Tourette's Syndrome, Visual Impairments, Speech and Language Needs and physical disabilities. As the Learning Support Assistant, you will therefore need to be kind, empathetic, friendly and positive, with an interest in helping young children with SEN! As a Learning Support Assistant, you will support and shadow the class teacher, whilst providing 1:1 and group support to the pupils. You will help ensure all the lessons are engaging and exciting, help improve the pupil's social skills, as well as building and encouraging their communication. The school have a strong focus on building the student's life skills, so expect cooking, arts and crafts, sports, swimming and horse riding! Any experience working with children and/or adults with additional needs would be beneficial, whether professional or personal. Experience with children could include tutoring, mentoring, working in a nursery setting or a sports environment! A degree or Level 3 qualification would also be relevant. A positive attitude and enthusiasm is most important! Learning Support Assistant Working with SEN pupils Thatcham, West Berkshire Monday to Friday, 08:30 - 15:30 £80 to £90 per day ASAP Start If you are excited by this opportunity then apply today with your updated CV! Learning Support Assistant - Thatcham, Learning Support Assistant - Thatcham, Learning Support Assistant - Thatcham Learning Support Assistant - Thatcham Learning Support Assistant - Thatcham