Mental Health Support Worker (Internally known as Enablement Practitioner)
Location: West Moors, Dorset
Hourly Rate: £15.69
Hours Per Week: Full time, Days & Nights available
**Full UK driving licence required**
**Experience in supporting adults with mental health and behaviours that challenge**
- Whilst PBS4 holds a sponsorship license, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to any new applicants to PBS4. We wish you all the best with your job search and future career.
About the role
This role is seeking support workers to work with an individual on a 3:1 support ratio. The individual requiring support has schizophrenia, autism, generalised anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and an eating disorder which poses a significant risk to requiring NG feeding tube.. They also are currently using a wheelchair for mobility due to an accident they are currently recovering from.
Communication is key to effective support, and this individual uses a variety of communication tools depending upon how they feel and present, these include verbal communication, Twinkl communicator and Makaton . When upset, they need individuals supporting them who can balance their own emotions and help them to regulate theirs. They need support navigating social situations/conversations as don't always understand sarcasm or if they are being rude . It’s important to them that they are supported to learn when they interpret a situation differently to that intended, so that people don’t mock/laugh at them.
The person you will be supporting is living in their own home in West Moors, Dorset. They are wanting their support to be active and to engage in activities with them, making them more fun, as opposed to being a spectator. Activities include walks, outdoor activities, swimming and badminton. When indoors and not out and about, team members will be expected to Join in with crafting or playing games. Animals are very important to the person being supported. They have a dog, a parrot and rats, therefore you need to be ok with animals and be able to share their interest in animals with them.
Why work for us?
- Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued
- Have support from an experienced management and clinical team
- Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support
- Have training opportunities that enhance your career development
Benefits include: 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1-year anniversary with PBS4., in-house paid induction training, followed by 12 weeks blended e-learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme, earned wage access, and access to various other benefits through our enhanced Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and receive £300.00 for every successful person you refer.
PBS4
PBS4 is a values led social care organisation, providing Neurodisability Services to individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disabilities and Complex Health Needs, and/or behaviours that may challenge. We support people living in their own homes, with their own tenancies, and we utilise Positive Behaviour Support as the framework for the support we provide.
We are a medium-sized organisation supporting people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Somerset, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of around 430 employees.
The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these! We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social care!
People with learning disabilities should have the same right to an ordinary life as anyone else. They need support from people like you to help them achieve this. If you are passionate about helping people to achieve the life they deserve and thrive of seeing others succeed, then a career with PBS4 is the career for you. We value experience in supporting others, but we warmly welcome people without experience who share our values.
We want to create new ways of working, led by passion and drive for doing what is right, and promote innovation from our teams. Join us on our mission to disrupt social care
PBS4 provides support to enable people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour to have independent lives and to live in their own home. Our approach is underpinned by Positive Behaviour Support. Positive Behaviour Support is an approach mostly used to support people with learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge others. The goal is to shift the focus away from reducing challenging behaviour to understanding what that behaviour means and supporting people to get what they need better.
