Reablement Support Worker – Mental Health (Full‑time)

About the role

We are looking to recruit Reablement Support Workers to provide specialist expertise and support to Living Well Centre teams. They will facilitate the achievement of person‑centred outcomes for people living in the community, some of whom have complex mental health and other support needs.

Key responsibilities

• Provide intensive reablement support through practical work with and beside people to complete household chores such as shopping, cooking and cleaning.
• Offer rehabilitation support to help people re‑learn domestic tasks from a strengths‑based perspective.
• Assist with a range of reablement needs including domestic support, substance misuse and harm minimisation, physical health concerns, advice around Social Care and care packages, benefits and money management.
• Build great relationships with the people we support and the people important in their lives.
• Act as ‘social prescribers’, connecting people to local groups and services, including peer support, and helping them reconnect with family and friends.

Required profile

• Experience of supporting people with mental health needs and completing tasks with them.
• Experience of enabling people with mental health needs to take positive risks in their lives.
• Knowledge of safeguarding.
• A good working knowledge of health and social care services.