Wake Night Specialist Support Worker

We are currently looking to recruit for a Waking Night Specialist Support Worker based at our specialised Mental Health Rehabilitation. The Elms House. The role will be based in Shrewsbury to provide recovery-focussed support to individuals with complex and enduring mental health needs, working as part of a 24 hour service. Demonstrating a commitment to safeguarding in line with policy and procedure you will support customers with life skills and empower them to build successful relationships within their community as they develop skills to better manage their health and well-being and increase levels of independence as they move through the service.
The role will involve supporting customers during the Night if required who have enduring Mental Health diagnosis, promoting rehabilitation and independent living skills. Other tasks and roles will include, supporting with medication, updating care plans and risk assessments, recording and monitoring support needs and working within Partnership with the NHS and Social services. The Wake Night staff member will also be responsible of ensuring the safety of the building and customers in which we support including having an active role within office auditing, processing of information and supporting colleagues and the Management Team and working in partnership with our colleagues in the NHS and Social services.
The benefits;
+ 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
+ Birthday leave
+ New Home leave
+ Life assurance (3 x salary)
+ Employee Assistance programme
+ Employee Wellbeing programme
+ Flexible Working options, Trident Group has over 60 years' experience of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £37m and owns assets close than £190m.
The Group consists of;
+ Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
+ Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering person-centred care and support services. These services include supporting people within registered care, domiciliary care, people with learning difficulties, those with mental health needs, young people at risk, older people, BME groups, people at risk of being homeless, those seeking employability, education and training opportunities and those fleeing domestic abuse.
Trident offers their employees learning and development opportunities and wants to invest in their development and career growth. Through our apprenticeship scheme, we offer various courses in areas that will help support employees within their roles and for their further development.
We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a person-centred organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.
By joining Trident Group, you will have the opportunity to join our Diverse Voices Steering Group to ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion remains at the heart of everything we do.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:
+ ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
+ communicating and promoting vacancies
+ offering an interview to disabled people
+ anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
+ supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
+ at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
Applying
All applications must be accompanied with a current CV which will be used to assess your suitability for the role. Please ensure all the skills, experience and qualifications requested are clearly demonstrated in your CV as explained in the body of the advert.
All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.
Relevant roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and barring service (DBS).

+ Organised and reliable
+ Knowledge of Adult Safeguarding.
+ Able to work flexibly within a 24hr Rota system, which will include weekend working
+ A high level of professional integrity
+ Committed to maintaining our high standards of support
+ A working knowledge of Mental Health diagnosis
+ The ability to plan effectively to meet the needs of the service
+ Good working knowledge of Microsoft IT applications
+ Communicate effectively; written, electronic and phone
+ Medication awareness and experience.
+ NVQ Level 2 or the equivalent
+ Ensuring confidentiality relating to customers and staff.
+ Solving problems and using own initiative
+ Confident Lone Worker
+ High standard of record keeping ensuring accuracy and inclusive person-centred support, i.e. daily notes, handover records and incident reports