# Support Worker - Mental Health

**Company**: Peabody
**Location**: London Borough of Southwark
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: GBP 29,460 per year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Do you want a career where every day brings an opportunity to make a real difference and help people realise their potential?

At Peabody, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live well, independently and with dignity. We're looking for a compassionate and motivated Support Worker to join our specialist team in Southwark.

This is a rewarding opportunity to support people with severe mental health needs, substance use issues and other complex challenges to achieve greater independence, stability and wellbeing. Using a strengths-based, trauma-informed and person-centred approach, you'll help customers build confidence, develop life skills and move towards their personal goals.

**What you’ll do**

As a Support Worker, you'll work closely with customers to deliver tailored support that promotes independence, wellbeing and positive outcomes. You'll also:

- Support them with tenancy sustainment and help customers manage their accommodation successfully.

- Encourage life skills development, including cooking, cleaning and maintaining a safe home environment.

- Assist with benefits applications, budgeting and accessing financial support

- Build positive relationships with mental health services, social care teams and other support agencies.

- Support customers to access specialist services, education, training and community opportunities.

- Maintain accurate records, support plans and risk assessments.

- Help customers prepare for and achieve successful move-on outcomes.

**What you’ll need**

We're looking for someone who is passionate about helping others and committed to delivering excellent support. You'll be kind, empathetic and genuinely motivated to improve people's lives. You’re a customer-focused individual, an effective communicator who can work confidently with customers, colleagues and external agencies. You’ll also have:

- Experience supporting people with mental health needs, substance use issues, homelessness, offending backgrounds or other complex support needs.

- Knowledge of recovery-focused and/or trauma-informed practice.

- Experience completing support plans, risk assessments and case records.

- Confidence working independently and lone working when required.

- Strong communication, organisation and IT skills.

- An understanding of safeguarding, housing management and tenancy sustainment.

- Empathy, resilience and a non-judgemental approach.

**Why join us**

At Peabody, our values guide everything we do - Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises, and Pull Together.

- 25 days’ annual holiday (plus bank holidays)

- Flexible benefits scheme including healthcare, dental, tech, vouchers, and more

- Up to 10% pension contribution

- Family-friendly policies

If you're passionate about supporting people to thrive, we'd love to hear from you.

## Skills

### Required
- mental health support
- substance use issues support
- tenancy sustainment
- life skills development
- benefits applications
- budgeting
- communication
- organisation
- IT skills
- safeguarding
- housing management

### Nice to have
- recovery-focused practice
- trauma-informed practice
- support plans
- risk assessments
- case records
- lone working

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