Housing Support Worker (Bank)

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., Pembrokeshire Housing services have been developed in partnership with Hywel Dda, Pembrokeshire Housing Support Grant Team and Pembrokeshire County Council.

Adferiad's Support Accommodation project staff support individuals with a serious mental illness. The housing services are temporary supported move on accommodation projects and the support is delivered either in shared accommodation, supported housing setting in Haverfordwest or in people's own homes in the locality.

Pembrokeshire Supported Accommodation projects include a 24 hour shared supported accommodation to six occupants who are diagnosed as experiencing a serious mental illness and have been assessed as needing high levels of support to help with their recovery. Adferiad provides individuals support in a second shared house where people receive a lower level of housing related support and thirdly, Adferiad support clients who live in the five additional one bedroom flats in the locality.

The aim of the Adferiad staff team is to encourage and enable clients to reach a greater level of independence over a reasonable period of time, and then to facilitate their move on to more independent living in the community.

The service is staffed 7 days a week, 24 hours per day with on-site waking nights, sleep-in cover and staff are on a shift pattern rota which includes unsocial hours.

Support Worker Job Role:

Under the direction of the Housing Service Manager & Seniors, work as part of the team and lone work to support and improve the lives of people with serious mental illness.

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.