Sanctuary Support Worker

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.
Adferiad Recovery harnesses the talents and experience of long-established and leading Welsh charities CAIS, Hafal and WCADA. Our combined expertise in the fields of substance use, mental health, housing, criminal justice, and employment support enables Adferiad Recovery to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.
Hours: 15 and 22.5 hours per week contracts available
Salary: £11.45 per hour (£22,387.61 per annum (pro rata 22.5 hours per week) (includes unsocial hours payment)
Based in: Llansamlet, Swansea.
Job Purpose:
The Sanctuary Support Worker will form part of a team providing recovery focussed, compassionate, and dynamic mental health related support to clients accessing Adferiad Recovery’s Swansea Sanctuary Service.
As a member of the team, you will provide somewhere to turn to for people (and those who have relationships with those) experiencing social/emotional crisis, anxiety, panic attacks, depression and/or having suicidal thoughts.
- Provide direct support to individuals suffering with various levels of mental illness accessing the Sanctuary.
- Support the needs of adults (aged over 17 years and 9 months) who are in, at the risk of, or at the point of a social/emotional crisis within the Swansea Bay University Health Board area.
- Provide an out of hours, non-accommodation-based service offering support between the hours of 18:00 to 03:00, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
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.
We are a living wage employer.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: http://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=2794ca2c-db7c-46dc-9539-9f979a3703b7