Support Worker (Mental Health)
About the role:
Do you have the commitment and values to make a real difference to the lives of people with support needs? Are you passionate about empowering them to improve their quality of life, while supporting them to realise their hopes, dreams and aspirations?
As a mental health support worker, you will be working alongside a dedicated team who thrive on being able to make a difference.
You will encourage the people we support to make choices and decisions enabling them to take control of their own lives and increasing independence. You will actively promote effective communication, including accessible information to facilitate involvement and decision making. You will contribute to the development of person-centred planning, ensuring each individual’s plan has meaningful and achievable goals with positive outcomes that meet aspirations as well as needs.
Hours:
1 full time position available (39 hours)Hours usually between:7:30am-3pm9am-3:30pm2pm-10pmPlease note this service requires the successful individual to work sleep-ins at a flat rate of £55 a night.
Location:
The service is located on the beautiful Whitstable coastline with sea views and plenty of free parking. Access via a main bus route is also available
.About you:
The ideal candidate will have a genuine passion about working within this sector, looking to make a difference to the people we support and will be looking for a challenging but rewarding role.
We recognise that good support workers come from all walks of life.
Whether you have years of support experience or no experience at all, if you are a caring person, passionate about empowering others and ready to learn new skills we want to speak to you!
We may close this post early if we receive sufficient applications before the closing date. If you are interested in applying, we would ask that you do so as early as possible to avoid any disappointment.
Interviews will be held week commencing 22 June 2026
To keep the people we support safe, we follow safer recruitment steps. This includes DBS checks, reference checks and reviewing your work history.
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Choice Support is Disability Confident which is a scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview. If you consider yourself to have a disability or long-term chronic health condition or if you require any adjustments/support during the application/selection process, please contact sharon.dormody@choicesupport.org.uk so that we can discuss your needs with you.
