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These jobs are a great opportunity to join an expanding, successful organisation that believes in working with people’s strengths.
Please ensure that you read the guidance notes for all job applications, complete the detail of the Job specification and include the applicant monitoring forms.
For all of our posts you will need to be DBS checked on the enhanced scheme.
You will be part of a team who provide on-site support for adults with mental health issues. We support people to identify and use their strengths to help manage the things in life they find difficult and thereby promote recovery and independence.
You will be required to;
- Ensure that service delivery reflects Julian Support’s commitment to the Recovery Model and Strengths Approach.
- To deliver support to service users in line with their support plan, risk assessment and management plan
- To complete all necessary paperwork, electronic records and data inputting (e.g. records of service user contacts and data reports) to the required standard and within designated timescales.
- Liaise effectively with other mental health professionals and partner agencies in line with the overall care plan.
- Work with Recovery Coordinators to identify the correct resources to deliver on the support, risk assessment & management plan
- Support service users to access appropriate accommodation and maintain their occupancy agreement.
- Work in partnership with service users, carers, families, friends, other professionals and the wider community in order to promote and sustain independence.
We offer a full induction and relevant training to work within a supportive team environment.
The next training cycle begins on the 14/06/2021 and this will be the start date for the successful candidate.
We welcome applications from those whom agree with our organisational principles that might be looking for a change in career, those with relevant experience and/or those passionate to assist others in their recovery.
For a confidential discussion about the role, and whether it might suit you, please contact; Syreeta Carr, Deputy Service Manager on 07867 395 853
If you wish to apply, please complete an application form ensuring you give as much detailed evidence as possible to show how you meet the essential and desirable criteria listed in the job description / person specification.
Email your completed application form and applicant monitoring form to: jobs@juliansupport.org
Or post to: Human Resources, Julian Support, 23 Pilling Park Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 4PA
Closing Date: 16/04/2021 at 9am
Interview Date: 27/04/2021 in West Ipswich or on Microsoft Teams
Job Description and Person Specification
We are looking for the right person to fulfil the position of Peer Support Worker within our Integrated Mental Health and Justice Pathway.
This is a job share position, working afternoons on Wednesdays and all day on Thursdays & Fridays.
We offer a full induction and relevant training to work within a supportive team environment. The next induction & training cycle begins on 14th June 2021 and this will be the start date for the successful candidate.
The role holder will have been through the Criminal Justice System. Using your personal experience of the Criminal Justice System, you will support others in similar circumstances to make positive life changes. Demonstrating positive role modelling, you will work in partnership with our service users helping them to build upon their strengths and enabling them to engage with resources in the community, with the aim of preventing re-offending.
The role is to support vulnerable people that find themselves within the Criminal Justice System with the aim of focussed support to enable them to address social / mental health / physical / environmental needs that maybe impacting on their offending behaviour. The route for referrals into the service are at point of arrest - PICs (Police Investigation Centres) or from HMP Norwich.
There is significant driving involved in this role and you would be asked to cover and support people in Norfolk and Suffolk. You would need to demonstrate how you might be able to meet those we support in those areas.
Julian Support delivers services to both vulnerable adults and children and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This means that the role will require the post holder to declare unspent and spent convictions. You would be required to undergo DBS checks, we can only accept applications from those whose convictions are not on the ‘Barred List’.
If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role, then please call Penny Newton, Service Manager, on 07734 511015.
Closing date: 1:00pm on 16th April 2021
Interviews: 27th April 2021 (on Microsoft Teams)
Job Description and Person Specification
