St Anne's Community Services

Mental Health Outreach Support Worker - Leeds- Full-time

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Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
4/16/2025
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Description
Job Overview

Our Mental Health Outreach service assists clients who live in a supported living setting and independent living in the community. We require caring individuals providing emotional support and helping clients who self harm.

As a Support Worker, you will provide high quality care and support to our clients to enable them to live their best life. You will be passionate in making a difference to our client’s lives, helping them to fulfil their aspirations and ambitions.

St Anne’s Community Services has become one of the largest and most respected charities in the North of England. Bringing creativity and a can-do approach, all our employees embody our values being Person-Centred, Respectful, Open, Understanding and Dedicated (PROUD). We support nearly 2,000 vulnerable adults in specialist residential, supported living and outreach services, enabling them through exceptional care and support to live their best possible life.

Main duties of the job

  • You will have a caring, confident and well organised personality with the ability to adapt to situations quickly as every day is different.
  • Its desirable (not essential) that you have some experience of working in a care environment.
  • Proven track record of team work and working in a face paced environment.
  • You must be flexible as you would be required to work a variety of shifts, and also cover at other local services in the absence of other staff.
  • You must be confident in speaking to other professionals and services who work with our clients, as you will be in regular communication with them.
  • Incidents may occur, so you must be able to mange these calmly and report any safeguarding concerns to the local authority/any relevant professionals who are supporting the client.

Working for our organisation

St. Anne's wants to reward its employees for their hard work. Employee benefits include;

  • Rising annual leave each year to a maximum of 33 days (including statutory holidays)
  • 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme
  • Continuous opportunities for ongoing training and career development
  • Cycle To Work scheme
  • Refer A Friend recruitment initiative
  • Flexible working opportunities (where applicable) upon successful completion of probation period
  • Group Personal Pension Scheme
  • Discounted income protection scheme
  • Free car parking at most services
  • Free life assurance cover

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

  • Mental Health support worker to our Outreach clients who live in a supported living setting and independent living in the community
  • You will be responsible for providing day to day support to our clients, including providing emotional support and helping clients who self harm.
  • Our clients will look to you to help them develop their coping skills and how to manage their mental health safely.
  • You will support and encourage our clients with money management, attending appointments, support with their medication and maintaining positive relationships.
  • As a Support Worker in Outreach, you will also support our clients in exploring new interests, cooking/cleaning and improving on their physical health. This includes supporting clients in social/leisure activities within both the home and the community.
  • You will have a person-centred approach and will promote culture and choices.
  • As well as physically and emotionally supporting our clients, you will be responsible for maintaining accurate records and will write clear and concise daily notes.

Person specification

Mental Health SW

Essential criteria

  • Experience of working in care personally or professionally

Desirable criteria

  • Experience of working in mental health

St. Anne’s is working to actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

We want people from underrepresented groups such as disabled, black and ethnic minority, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and non-binary (LGBTQ+) communities to apply for all our roles.

St. Anne's is a Disability Confident employer. We are actively working to recruit and retain people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into our work force. If you are an applicant who has a disability, you will be offered an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the job. Please contact recruitment on 0113 243 5151 opt 3 if you require any reasonable adjustments.

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

  • Support Worker JD (PDF, 151.6KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Sapphire Samuels Job title FLM Email address [email protected] Telephone number 07814904669
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