# Mental Health Support Worker

**Company**: North London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £30630.00 to £32346.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This role is part of the launch of our Crisis Prevention Houses, offering therapeutic, recovery-focused environments for people experiencing mental health challenges.

The post holder will deliver shifts from a trauma-informed perspective, taking guidance from the team within the managing risk framework at the service.

Responsibilities include:

- Leading on some activities in the house and maintaining the environment's privacy, dignity, and respect for all service users.

- Working shifts alongside senior staff at weekends when required.

- Ensuring the health and safety of each shift, reporting/escalating issues to senior managers or on-call personnel.

The salary is £30,630 to £32,346 a year, subject to night and weekend enhancements.

Benefits include:

- NHS Discounts

- Generous annual leave

- NHS pension scheme

- Excellent internal staff network

- Flexible working and health and wellbeing initiatives

Requirements:

- Registered mental health professional qualification or nationally recognised qualifications.

- Demonstrable experience working with individuals with mental health issues.

- Sound knowledge base in relation to factors causing mental health problems and preferred treatment methods.

- Excellent verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills.

Desirable qualifications:

- Evidence of recent and ongoing academic study.

- Level 1 & 2 Safeguarding Children or Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificate.

- Experience of studies or learning about mental health, trauma, or domestic and sexual abuse.

## Skills

### Required
- trauma-informed care
- mental health support
- communication skills
- teamwork
- time management

### Nice to have
- safeguarding children
- safeguarding vulnerable adults
- mental health legislation
- research and evidence-based practice

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