Engagement Workers x 2

Engagement Workers x 2 

Bristol - Permanent and Fixed Term

£25,991 - £29,577

Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

 

Do you want to work in a role where you can support people to rebuild their lives?

 

If you have experience of working with a client-centred recovery focussed approach and engaging with clients with mental health issues we have an excellent opportunity for you!

 

We are excited to be looking for 2 people to join us as Engagement Workers in Bristol in one permanent and one fixed term, or secondment, opportunity.

 

Rough Sleeping Engagement Worker – this is a permanent role that is based in an exciting new service for those rough sleeping who have mental health issues, working with partners AWP, Second Step and Nilaari to engage and support to access the ongoing services and treatment they require.

 

The vision is to provide an integrated service that:

• Creates a bridge between the service user and the wide range of expertise across our system
• Makes best use of our collective resources to provide person-centred, trauma informed care at every stage in the pathway (based on our My Team Around Me principles and approach)
• Takes an holistic approach, balancing clinical need with wider determinants of wellbeing
• Uses technology to ensure that there is one view of the service user that is shared by all partners across the system
• Empowers and enables those rough sleeping to participate fully in their care, and supports them moving off the streets and into recovery.

 

Engagement Worker – this is a fixed term (or secondment) opportunity based in our ACE service working with a wide variety or people who face multiple barriers to mental health services and are not engaged in services. The service reflects the diversity of Bristol and reaches people and communities that may have had difficulty accessing these services in the past.

 

We are looking for someone with experience of working in high quality outcome focused services who has a passion for supporting people in a positive, individual manner to engage in their recovery. We also welcome and encourage applications from people with lived experience of mental health issues, and/or services. Knowledge of relevant mental services and other local services will also be beneficial.

 

Key responsibilities include:

1. Client Support

2. Multi Agency Work

3. Recording and evidencing work

 

About you

Our clients and residents come from all walks of life and so do we. We believe that a diverse workforce drives success and improves the services we can provide to our clients so we actively welcoming applications from people from all backgrounds.

 

For these challenging yet rewarding roles we are looking for people with:

• Experience of working with a client-centred recovery focussed approach and the necessary skills to initiate and maintain constructive and appropriate relationships with clients and agencies in a detached environment and with hard to reach groups.
• Knowledge of the particular issues facing clients with complex needs, and knowledge of the services which are available to them.
• An understanding of and an ability to work in a psychologically informed way.
• Ability to work as a member of a dynamic, positive team, to build wider networks with other agencies and also work using own initiative.

 

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document available’ tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

 

What we offer

Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities

• We hold Investors in People Gold accreditation – one of just 3% of Housing Associations to achieve this. 82% of staff who took part in the survey say St Mungo’s is a great place to work.
• We are committed to developing all of our staff via routes such as secondments, transfers and promotion. In 2019 35% of our vacancies were filled by internal promotions.

 

A Diverse and Inclusive Work Place

• Equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work.
• We are proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion and have 8 great Diversity Networks to support clients and staff from different backgrounds so they are able to be their best selves.

 

Pay and Other Benefits

• St Mungo’s is proud to pay client facing staff above average for the sector. We run a cycle to work scheme and also offer season tickets loans to all staff.
• St Mungo’s contribute 4% of your gross annual salary, and you are able to enrol in the Defined Contribution scheme following a successful probationary period in which the employer contribution is 6%.

 

What we do

At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, our clients are at the heart of what we do, and in 2019 – 2020 we supported 32,800 people across all of our services. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.

 

How to apply

Click the ‘Apply Now’ Button at the top of the page to start your online application form. 

 

Closing date: 10am on Wednesday 30 June 2021

Interview and assessments on: Monday 12 or Tuesday 13 of July 2021

 

It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check will be undertaken for the successful candidate.

 

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.