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Position: Life Skills Tutor
Location: London
Contract type: Part Time, Permanent
Hours: 20-25 hours per week, 4 to 5 hours per day, Monday to Friday, flexibility considered
Salary: £9,500 to £13,750 dependent on experience and qualifications (based on FTE of £19,000-£22,000)
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro rata; pension scheme
About the Role:
The Life Skills Tutor will work as part of a team enabling vulnerable people to improve their life skills. You will plan, prepare and deliver life skills sessions for groups and individuals with Mental Health and Complex Needs and/or Learning Disabilities.
About You:
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience of supporting teaching and learning. You will also be able to demonstrate flexibility in approach to the needs of customer/s being supported, enabling them to take control of their lives. The successful candidate will be able to motivate and encourage learner participation, whilst having good computer skills and value diversity.
To apply:
Download the job description and application form and return to recruitment@cyrenians.org
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Position: Specialist Activities Leader
Location: London
Contract type: Part Time, Permanent
Hours: 16 hours a week
Salary: £7,600-£8,800 dependent on experience and qualifications (based on FTE of £19,000-£22,000)
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro rata; pension scheme
About the Role:
The Specialist Activities Leader will help to created a positive and enjoyable diversion from distressing symptoms of mental ill health by providing alternative coping strategies through structured activity sessions.
About You:
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience of supporting teaching and learning. You will also be able to demonstrate the ability to plan, prepare and deliver sessions for vulnerable adults, whilst being able to motivate en encourage learner participation.
To apply:
Download the job description and application form and return to recruitment@cyrenians.org or alternatively click “Apply Now” to apply online
Download the job description and application formPosition: Learning Disabilities Support Worker
Location: London
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week (24 hour shift pattern)
Salary: £19,000 rising to £22,000 after successful completion of probation
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pension scheme
About the Role:
The Support Worker will work as part of a team enabling people with learning disabilities and complex needs to settle into their new flats in the community. You will support the customer/s to adjust and to build skills that enable them to live as independently as possible. You will support the customer/s to develop and expand their life skills so that they can lead full and active lives within the community.
About You:
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate knowledge of Person Centred Working and experience of working with challenging behaviours. You will also be able to demonstrate flexibility in approach to the needs of customer/s being supported, enabling them to take control of their lives. The successful candidate will have experience of working with adults with complex needs, which may include learning disability, autistic spectrum condition, complex challenging behaviour.
Experience of enabling customers to develop the skills and confidence needed to live as independently as possible is essential, as is experience of identifying the support needs of customers and of developing and implementing individualised support plans to meet their needs.
To Apply:
Download the job description and application form and return to recruitment@cyrenians.org
Download the job details and application formPosition: Mental Health Support Worker
Location: London
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week (24 hour shift pattern)
Salary: £18,208 per annum
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pension scheme
About the Role:
The Support Worker will work as part of a team providing an environment where people with complex and challenging needs are encouraged to live as independently as possible, using the assertive model of engagement and individually tailored support plans to form the basis for effective interventions. You will support the customers to develop and expand their life skills so that they can lead full and active lives within the community.
About You:
The successful candidate will have experience of working with vulnerable adults, in a mental health setting or learning disability. You will have an understanding of how mental health problems, learning disabilities and complex needs may affect day to day functioning along with knowledge and understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures.
Additionally you will have the ability to establish and maintain rapport and liaise appropriately with customers, team members, clinicians and other external support services. You will show a commitment to, and an understanding of equality of opportunity and the ongoing management of diversity. You will possess good IT skills, with the ability to adapt easily to new systems along with good written and verbal skills.
To apply:
Download the job description and application form and return to recruitment@cyrenians.org or alternatively click “Apply Now” to apply online
Download the job description and application formPosition: Waking Night Support Worker
Location: London
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary: £18,208 per annum
Benefits: 21 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pension scheme
About the Role:
To work at night as a member of a support team providing service users with an environment where they are encouraged to live as independently as possible, using assertive models of engagement and individually tailored support plans to form the basis for effective interventions.
About You:
The successful candidate will have experience of working with vulnerable adults, in a mental health setting or learning disability setting. You will have an understanding of how mental health problems, learning disabilities and complex needs may affect day to day functioning along with knowledge and understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures.
Additionally you will have the ability to establish and maintain rapport and liaise appropriately with customers, team members, clinicians and other external support services. You will show a commitment to, and an understanding of equality of opportunity and the ongoing management of diversity. You will possess good IT skills, with the ability to adapt easily to new systems along with good written and verbal skills.
To apply:
Download the job description and application form and return to recruitment@cyrenians.org or alternatively click “Apply Now” to apply online
Download the job description and application formPosition: Senior Support Worker
Location: London
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week (24 hour shift pattern)
Salary: circa £25,000 per annum
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pension scheme
About the Role:
The Senior Support Worker will assist the Manager with the day to day management of the project including staff performance, service user welfare and maintenance of a high standard, respectful environment.
You will also be responsible for the provision of a quality service where customers are supported in an empathetic way, to live as independently as possible.
About You:
As a Senior Support Worker, you will have experience of staff management including awareness of good practice in staff supervision. You will also have successful experience of working with adults with complex needs including homelessness/mental health/substance misuse problems and an understanding of the needs of people who sleep rough and have mental health problems.
Additionally, you will have the ability to identify support needs of customers and to inform and implement individually tailored skill plans. You will also have knowledge and understanding of the safeguarding of vulnerable adults and the ability to maintain appropriate recording and filing systems, including good IT skills.
To apply:
Download the job description and application form and return to recruitment@cyrenians.org or alternatively click “Apply Now” to apply online
Position: Recovery Support Worker
Location: London
Contract type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 40 hours per week (24 hour shift pattern)
Salary: up to £25,000 per annum
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pension scheme
About the Role:
You will join us in an exciting new project, making good use of your specialist recovery support skills. You will work as part of a team providing an environment where people with complex and challenging needs are encouraged to live as independently as possible, using the assertive model of engagement, a recovery-focused approach and individually tailored recovery plans to form the basis for effective interventions.
About You:
You will have a relevant qualification – e.g. Qualified Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or a degree related to health and social care or equivalent – and experience of working in a community setting with adults who have complex needs and challenging behaviour, mental health issues and substance misuse, and homelessness and forensic histories. You will recognise and respond to deterioration in service users’ physical/mental health, and devise strategies to keep them well.
To apply:
Download the job description and application form and return to recruitment@cyrenians.org or alternatively click “Apply Now” to apply online
