Job summary

Adferiad Recovery delivers a recovery model of housing support which includes both shared accommodation and floating support to individuals living independently. We support individuals who experience a serious mental illness and who will need a medium level of support to help with their recovery. The service will be staffed 7 days a week, including unsocial hours.

The aim of the 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 to more independent living in the community.

Senior Job Role:

The position of Senior involves taking responsibility of delegated tasks such as the completion of processing referrals from point of receipt to the delivery of support through the creation of person-centred/ housing related support delivery plans, allocating tasks to staff members. The role will include acting as Deputy in the

Service Managers absence, completing reviews of support, ensuring all client files are up to date, ensuring compliance with internal and external quality standards inspection. As a deputy, a Senior is expected to be able to take on any essential admin and oversee the management of Housing Support Workers and the projects as directed by the Service Manager.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the above, further duties and responsibilities include:

Delivering support and assisting clients with the following:

  • Using appliances safely and maintaining reasonable domestic standards
  • Personal finance, budgeting, and accessing benefits.
  • Mental and physical healthcare
  • Self-management of medication
  • Attending appointments
  • Visitors and their access to individuals property
  • Building and maintaining relationships with neighbours, families, friends, professionals
  • Developing skills and interests

Attendance at multiagency meetings to ensure the complex needs of the client(s) are addressed appropriately.

Support the Service Manager and Registered Manager, in monitoring and evaluating staff performance during supervisions and with ongoing support.

About us

Four charities in Wales joined together on 1st April 2021 to become Adferiad Recovery, a new organisation which will provide support for vulnerable people in Wales and their families and carers. Adferiad Recovery will have a particular focus on people with mental health problems, substance misuse problems, and those with co-occurring and complex needs.

The merging charities are:

  • Adferiad Recovery, based in South Wales, provides services for people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues
  • CAIS, based in North Wales, provides substance misuse services, employment, mental health, and veterans services across Wales
  • Hafal, based in South Wales, supports mental health service users, carers and other vulnerable groups across Wales
  • WCADA, based in South Wales, provides substance misuse services in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend and the Public Prisons at Swansea, Cardiff, Usk and Prescoed.

CAIS, Hafal and WCADA had recently worked together to form Adferiad Recovery as a new charity. This enabled the charities to work together more closely, and the four have now merged into this new single charity.

Date posted

25 January 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£21,507.75 a year Plus unsociable hours enhancements

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

B0489-AG019

Job locations

53 Park Street

Bridgend

Mid Glamorgan

CF31 4AX

Job description

Job responsibilities

FOR A FULL AND DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION, PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED SUPPORTING DOCUMENT

Job description

Job responsibilities

FOR A FULL AND DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION, PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED SUPPORTING DOCUMENT

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • We are looking for someone with sufficient experience of providing care and support services to people either with a serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorder, or within a social care setting. Through your experience, you should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the community care approach and be able to simply describe the difficulties experienced in the community by people with a serious mental illness, issues affecting people from black and ethnic minority communities, and the causes and issues people who are, or at risk of being, homeless face.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Whilst qualifications are not essential to apply for this role, an NVQ or QCF Competencies in Health & Social Care Level 3 would provide some evidence of competence for the post and all staff would be required to hold or complete this as part of their employment.

Driving

Essential

  • Must have a full UK driver’s licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • We are looking for someone with sufficient experience of providing care and support services to people either with a serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorder, or within a social care setting. Through your experience, you should be able to demonstrate knowledge of the community care approach and be able to simply describe the difficulties experienced in the community by people with a serious mental illness, issues affecting people from black and ethnic minority communities, and the causes and issues people who are, or at risk of being, homeless face.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Whilst qualifications are not essential to apply for this role, an NVQ or QCF Competencies in Health & Social Care Level 3 would provide some evidence of competence for the post and all staff would be required to hold or complete this as part of their employment.

Driving

Essential

  • Must have a full UK driver’s licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.