Community Support WorkerinNewcastle Upon TyneinNewcastle Upon TynePUBLISHED TUE 4 MAR 2025

We have the exciting opportunity for a Community Support Worker to join our Newcastle Housing with Care and Support team!

This is a permanent, part-time role contracted at 22.5 hours per week.

Shifts are 3 x 7.5 hour shifts per week (including some weekends and unsocial hours, additional on call payment and enhanced pay for unsocial hours/weekend)

It is an essential requirement of this role that you are a driver with access to your own car.

As a Community Support Worker, you will:

• Support tenants to maintain their tenancy within the community and support planning and evaluation under the supervision of a Registered Mental Health Nurse for a small caseload of service users to provide ongoing assessment and evaluation.
• Demonstrate and promote daily living skills, home management skills and socialisation and form and maintain relationships with tenants friends and relatives to gain insight and effectively address service users needs.
• Motivate and promote participation in social/recreational/occupational activities and promote a healthy balance between rest and activity to improve mental health and wellbeing.
• Provide assistance in response to emergency situations in a first aid capacity and contribute to the creation of safe and homely environments to keep service users safe.
• Collaborate with external agencies and attend and contribute to Support Needs Evaluation and Care Co-ordination meetings for tenants as their co-worker to support informed decision-making by tenants.
• Conduct assessments on risk factors for tenants daily activities and mental health, then liaise with the nurse on call, as necessary to ensure needs are met.
• Guide and advise tenants of other services/support to develop their skills to more independent living environments and promote tenants participation in their own support programmes, encouraging attendance at service-user forums to encourage independence

About us

We have the exciting opportunity for a Community Support Worker to join our Newcastle Housing with Care and Support team!

This is a permanent, part-time role contracted at 22.5 hours per week.

Shifts are 3 x 7.5 hour shifts per week (including some weekends and unsocial hours, additional on call payment and enhanced pay for unsocial hours/weekend)

It is an essential requirement of this role that you are a driver with access to your own car.

As a Community Support Worker, you will:

• Support tenants to maintain their tenancy within the community and support planning and evaluation under the supervision of a Registered Mental Health Nurse for a small caseload of service users to provide ongoing assessment and evaluation.
• Demonstrate and promote daily living skills, home management skills and socialisation and form and maintain relationships with tenants friends and relatives to gain insight and effectively address service users needs.
• Motivate and promote participation in social/recreational/occupational activities and promote a healthy balance between rest and activity to improve mental health and wellbeing.
• Provide assistance in response to emergency situations in a first aid capacity and contribute to the creation of safe and homely environments to keep service users safe.
• Collaborate with external agencies and attend and contribute to Support Needs Evaluation and Care Co-ordination meetings for tenants as their co-worker to support informed decision-making by tenants.
• Conduct assessments on risk factors for tenants daily activities and mental health, then liaise with the nurse on call, as necessary to ensure needs are met.
• Guide and advise tenants of other services/support to develop their skills to more independent living environments and promote tenants participation in their own support programmes, encouraging attendance at service-user forums to encourage independence

About you

We would love to hear from you if you possess the following:

• Demonstrable experience of providing a regular and effective service
• Demonstrable experience of working 1:1 with service users people with complex needs
• Demonstrable experience of working within health, social care Understanding of recovery in the context of mental health
• Understanding of the effects of stigma and discrimination
• Understanding of confidentiality and General Data Protection Regulations
• Understanding of the health and social care landscape

What we offer in return

We are proud to have been recognised and certified as a Great Place to Work, which speaks volumes on how much we value our staff members. In return for the hard work and dedication from our teams, we offer the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years service) and the option to purchase or sell day
• Enhanced pension
• Wagestream-ability torelease earnings, giving youinstant access to your pay
• Smart Clinic Wellbeing Programme, including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and counselling sessions Shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
• Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary
• Plus, many more great benefits on offer!

Here at Everyturn Mental Health we champion equality, diversity and inclusion within the organisation by ensuring our opportunities are open to all and our approach is inclusive. We positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.

We welcome you to be yourself at work and have a range of Colleague Networks for members and allies of the LGBTQ+; Black, Asian and minority ethnic; menopause and neurodivergent communities.

In order to streamline our recruitment process, once we have received a sufficient number of applications, we reserve the right to expire vacancies, so please submit your application as soon as possible.