Senior Mental Health Support Worker

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

Can you Inspire, Enthuse & Create?

We seek an inspiring member of the team who can offer a ‘Can Do’ and flexible approach to the development and wellbeing of our customers.

Working across a range of mental health support functions, Senior Mental Health Support Workers provide short-term, intensive support to adult service users with mental health needs, enabling and empowering them to maximise their social, emotional, and physical independence in line with their individual care plan and the principles of mental health recovery. This involves ensuring that individual care plans are outcome focused and implemented and reviewed in a timely way, communicating any changes to the relevant internal colleagues and external multi-agency partners. Senior Mental Health Support Workers are required to work closely with individuals to develop onward pathways to appropriate services, community groups and third sector organisations to further enable independence and recovery.

What we offer

As part of a focused and specialised team within the Social Care Sector of Cheshire West and Chester Council, we offer a range of employment benefits for you and your family. This includes:

• Induction training programme
• Competitive salaries
• We can offer regular work patterns between the hours of 9am until 4pm.
• Generous Annual Leave Entitlement. (25 days increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service.)
• Competitive Government Pension Scheme
• Exclusive staff discounts across Cheshire West & Chester
• Holiday Plus Scheme
• Health and Medical Benefits
• Work fit, Cycle 2 Work & Technology Benefits
• Mileage Allowance (45p per mile)
• We'll also provide you with a work mobile phone, personal alarm and established emergency procedures to support you whilst you're in the community
• A Service Supervisor is available on call every day from 09.00 hrs to 16.00 hrs 

About Us

The Adult Mental Health Prevention & Wellbeing Team is one of the leading specialist care providers in Cheshire West and Chester, working alongside a wide range of consultants, clinical experts and specialised agencies providing rehabilitation, treatment programmes, care planning, assessment, and long-term focus on recovery and overall wellbeing.

We have consistently gained a reputation for innovation, creativity and providing the right treatment solutions for services users with particularly challenging and complex needs. Our ethos is to ensure that every individual referred to our service has the potential to further their recovery within a community setting, leading to independence, choice and positivity.

We are continuously under the process of reshaping our service in order to provide a more integrated service, supporting an array of health & care providers.  We are also proud to work closely with a number of agencies that support people with mental health problems.

What we expect from you

The successful candidate should have a natural yet professional approach to a wide range of circumstances and complex issues surrounding mental health including, forensic history, substance misuse, homelessness and many other challenging factors.

You will:

• Be committed to a person-centred approach to recovery and wellbeing
• Be enthusiastic about working as part of a dedicated team
• Be resilient and able to work under pressure and often alone.
• It is essential that you hold a Full UK driving license with Fully Comprehensive Insurance for Business Use.

If you would like an informal discussion prior to the application process, then please contact Laura Mayo Madhiviko on 01606 275805

Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk

No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment.  Please see the Equality Policy for more information.

Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £12.60 per hour for all contracted hours.

For any technical enquiries please email Sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk and quote job reference number in all correspondence.