Sanctuary Support Worker
Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 22.5 hours per week, unsocial hours between 18:00pm - 03:00am
Salary: £24,245.10 per annum (pro rata) (includes unsocial hours payment)
Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
Based at: Llansamlet, Swansea.
Interviews will take place on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024 for this vacancy.
Job Purpose:
The Sanctuary Support Worker will form part of a team providing recovery focussed, compassionate, and dynamic mental health related support to clients accessing Adferiad Recovery’s Swansea Sanctuary Service.
As a member of the team, you will provide somewhere to turn to for people (and those who have relationships with those) experiencing social/emotional crisis, anxiety, panic attacks, depression and/or having suicidal thoughts.
Support the needs of adults (aged over 17 years and 9 months) who are in, at the risk of, or at the point of a social/emotional crisis within the Swansea Bay University Health Board area.
The Sanctuary provides an out of hours, non-accommodation-based service offering support between the hours of 18:00 to 03:00, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
A UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential for this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values, (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/Job Board/Opening.aspx?v=bd616d1e-a475-4db9-87b4-dea50f6e22fa
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to £24,245.10 per year
Expected hours: 22.5 per week
Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Financial planning services
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Application question(s):

• Please provide a supporting statement or covering letter in addition to your CV.

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person
Reference ID: AF111