Team Leader / Senior Support Worker - Female only - Experience with Personality Disorder / PTSD

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Claimont Health is hiring!

Are you ready for a new and unique challenge, where you are empowered to give your aspired level of person-centred care from beginning to end of the patient journey? Do you have any experience working with individuals who have an Acquired Brain Injury?

Claimont Health is a CQC registered unique mental health service provider in the private sector, predominantly providing person centred, holistic services to clients who prefer to be treated in the comfort of their own home. We offer a tailored service, providing highly skilled mental health professionals to complement client's needs.

We are looking for a dynamic, hardworking Senior Support Worker who has experience working with individuals with Personality Disorder & PTSD to work alongside our Management Team in leading a team of Support Workers. You will assist in the delivery of ongoing, high quality, recovery based support to adults with mental health support needs. You will need to be able to provide all round support at the individuals home join our team (day and night post available) on a Zero hour or Permanent contractual basis.

The ideal candidate will be flexible, well organised and able to deliver person cantered support whilst offering a recovery based approach to all service users. You will have a professional manner with the ability to supervise and effectively guide a staff team, problem solve and work in partnership with service users & your Line Manager.

This role will be for a Team Leader / Senior Support Worker to work in the community, supporting a client with a bespoke package of care on a 2.1 bases that will be over seen by an RMN.

Successful applicant will:

• Manage / supervise support staff team.
• Complete Rotas
• Provide day to day support for a client in their home environment.
• Support client in all aspects of day to day life ( cleaning, meaningful activities, mental health support).
• Encourage and promote independence.
• Monitor the client's mental heath and physical health and report concerns to senior team members.
• Follow care plans and risk assessment.
• Support client into their local community and with local activities.
• Update care records and monitor clients over all wellbeing.
• Promote dignity at all times.
• Support with medication compliance.
• Support the RMN with crisis support for the client ( where appropriate).

What do we need from you?

• Female staff members only
• At least 2 years' experience within mental health settings.
• Desired for staff members to have experience supporting a complex dual diagnosis namely, Eating Disorder and Personality disorder.
• Vast experience of supporting clients in the following areas: in a supported accommodation/home environment type setting that present with complex mental health and physical health needs.
• An understanding of the MHA and legal frameworks.
• Experience of working with Multi agencies.
• Experience of working with clients with a personality disorder,
• Willing to undertake company training specific for this client.
• The ability to document to high standards.
• Be resilient and pro active
• Have the ability to empower the service user.
• Kind, caring and compassionate.

Claimont Health is specifically recruiting female applicants only in keeping with the positive action provision within the Equality Act 2010 order to meet patient needs and employee safety. This post is exempt under the Employment (Sex Discrimination) Act 2000, Section the (s9(2)(f)) Personal welfare and counselling which constitutes a Genuine Occupational Qualification. The role involves working with service users where there is a risk assessment identifying the need for a female candidate.

What can you expect from us?

• Attractive rates of pay - From £29,000 per annum
• Comfortable working environments
• Paid Induction
• Refer A Friend bonus scheme

Claimont Health is specifically recruiting female applicants only in keeping with the positive action provision within the Equality Act 2010 order to meet patient needs and employee safety. This post is exempt under the Employment (Sex Discrimination) Act 2000, Section the (s9(2)(f)) Personal welfare and counselling which constitutes a Genuine Occupational Qualification. The role involves working with service users where there is a risk assessment identifying the need for a female candidate.

Our Mission and Values

Claimont Health's mission is to be the leading independent sector provider of flexible, responsive, and dynamic mental health and complex care services in the UK. The values we live by are:

• Commitment
• Care
• Compassion
• Leadership
• Innovation

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Claimont Health follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Claimont Health is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights.