Female Community Support Worker

As Female Community Support Worker, you’ll offer advice, guidance and support to individuals who are experiencing mental health problems – enabling them to access activities within the community - promoting social inclusion and supporting service users to reach their full potential.

This will include:

• Supporting service users to realise their personal aspirations and goals by supporting them to access a wide range of community-based opportunities
• Developing a network of contacts and forging links with community groups
• Offering both practical advice and guidance, and emotional support
• Promoting the service within the community and to other agencies
• Making sure service users receive all the benefits they’re entitled to, providing up to date advice on welfare benefits and housing
• Assisting service users in practically managing their financial affairs, encouraging their participation in work, social and leisure activities
• Maximising their social and daily living skills and boosting their self-esteem.

You will need:

• The ability to motivate others and handle potentially stressful situations
• Plenty of initiative and excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage your own workload
• Experience of using IT and the proven ability to maintain up-to-date records and systems
• Good partnership working skills.

Richmond Fellowship, along with its partners, champions social inclusion and recovery and provides a diverse range of residential, community and employment services.

We offer great benefits, including 25 days’ holiday per year, contributory pension scheme, employee assistance programme and childcare vouchers.

Ref: 15/79

The Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1, Paragraph 1 applies to this post.

Closing date:  14 April 2015

Interview date:  24 April 2015