Night Support Assistant Nightingale House

Location:              Nightingale House, Bootle L20

Salary:                  £26,996.84 per annum

Hours:                   38.6 hours per week (4 on 4 off shifts, 19:00 – 09:00 including weekends, bank holidays)

Job Type:              Permanent 

Shortlisting:          5th October

Interview:             8th October

Why this role would be great for you

As a Night Support Worker at You Matter, you will naturally be an empathetic and caring person wanting to provide unconditional support for those experiencing mental health issues. Your role as a Night Support Assistant will be to create a safe environment that empowers residents to make positive changes in their lives. Nightingale House is a resettlement service that provides 25 beds of accommodation to adults that have recently been discharged from hospital following a mental health admission. We work in partnership with MerseyCare and our service helps people to build life skills, settle back into the community and find suitable long-term accommodation.

What your week may look like

• Welcoming new residents in line with the service’s policies and procedures, carry out risk assessments and support people during their time in service.
• Ensuring the basic needs of residents are met including good quality accommodation and facilities, healthy food, advice and guidance.
• Advocate for social inclusion of the people you support ensuring they can access health and financial support where required.
• Work alongside the people in our services to address their physical and mental health issues, including liaison with primary and secondary health teams.
• Holding activities in service and encourage participation and involvement from the residents.
• Carrying out the immediate support needs of residents as appropriate, providing crisis intervention where necessary and working with services.
• Ensuring all health and safety and maintenance issues are raised in a timely manner
• Participating in team meetings, supervision and reflective practice encouraging open, honest, and transparent feedback where continuous improvement is encouraged.
• Being flexible and responsive to the changing needs of the service, ensuring our SHREK values runs through all the work that you do.
• Promoting a supportive and inclusive culture within the service, valuing people and their diversity.

It is recognised that the association is operating in a dynamic environment and as such this job description may be varied in consultation with the post holder to reflect evolving needs of the business and changing nature of the job.

What We Can Offer You

Working with You Matter comes will a whole host of benefits. We hope that people will find deep personal fulfilment and purpose by working with alongside people in our services. Our teams are compassionate and supportive, fostering a strong sense of community. With opportunities for professional growth, You Matter offers training to support your role and personal development. For a full list of benefits see here: Careers at You Matter | Work with Us

The skills were looking for

EXPERIENCE

• Ideally, you will have a background of working within a charity, community project and/or previous involvement in the mental health sector. You will have knowledge around supporting people with challenging and complex behaviours including substance
  misuse and Mental Health within a 24-hour residential support service

KNOWLEDGE

• A basic understanding of relevant and appropriate legislation, including welfare benefits and housing law. An understanding of health and safety requirements in the workplace

COMMUNICATION

• Excellent communication, fostering a respectful, collaborative and
  professional approach to the people who you work alongside always ensuring confidentiality

EMPATHY & RESPECT

• The ability to empower people to make positive changes, showing
  empathy whilst maintaining professional boundaries

COMMITMENT

• The ability to work in an innovative and solutions focused way, including
  reflecting and learning as you go, and a willingness to flex and adapt approaches as needed

ORGANISATION

• Strong time management and the ability to manage to prioritise tasks

COMPUTER LITERACY

• You will be IT literate and have experience of working with multiple
  software programs such as Microsoft Office and Outlook.

What is a nice to have

• NVQ/L2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent
• Experience of working within a psychologically informed working environment
• Knowledge of housing management and IT databases
• Awareness of benefits and how they work including Universal Credit and other welfare systems

Even if you don’t feel that you have all the relevant skills and “nice to haves” we would still like to hear from you and invite you to fill out our application form.

You Matter is an equal opportunities employer, values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

How To Apply 

You can either complete the online application form below or download the application form here and email the completed version to recruitment@you-matter.org.uk