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Ealing, Greater London (On-site)
£32,000 per year (pro rata)
Full-time
Contract (Until March 2025)

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Job description

Job Purpose

This role sits within our crisis alternative service, Safe Space, which is an out of hours service providing a safe and welcoming space for people who are feeling distressed and experiencing crisis. The service operates 365 days a year from 12:00 (midday)-11:30pm across all of our boroughs. 

This role is for our Ealing Safe Space, 4:30pm - 11:30pm. You may be required to cover at other locations across Hammersmith & Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow.


Staff within the service will provide person-centred, practical and emotional support, face to face or via telephone on a one-to-one or group basis to individuals experiencing mental health crisis.


The objectives of the service include:

  • To improve the mental wellbeing of people experiencing mental health crisis in HFEH.
  • To provide support to clients accessing the service- for instance: signposting, de-escalation, planned wellbeing activities etc. 
  • To contribute to an improvement in individual mental wellbeing.
  • To remain a source of independent support for all clients.
  • To treat service users with respect, dignity and personalised support
  • To raise awareness of mental health services available with the goal to improve long term mental health and reduce social isolation
  • To increase self-management skills of those accessing the service
  • To reduce the use of police, ambulance and statutory mental health services whilst experiencing crisis.
  • To reduce the use of statutory crisis services by people experiencing mental ill health without positive outcomes for the individual.

The Role

The role of the team manager will be to support the rest of the team in delivering interventions on a one-to-one and group basis. The role will also involve triaging and assessing all clients accessing the service, signposting and delivering collaborative self-management plans with clients to improve mental wellbeing. The role will also include line management and supervision of support workers within the service. Team managers are responsible for management of their site; including report writing, audits and being the named manager for the site. This role directly supports the service managers in keeping to a high standard service. 

You can download a PDF of the job description for this role at the bottom of the page.

Key Responsibilities

See attached job description for full list of responsibilities

  • Providing a person centred and recovery orientated approach in all aspects of the roles and responsibilities.
  • Guiding the team, responding to referrals and planning each shift in terms of staffing, activities and case allocation
  • Understanding of risk and risk management
  • Understanding safeguarding adults and children processes and legal requirements
  • Understanding of safety planning and de-escalation
  • Experience of working with challenging behaviour
  • Working collaboratively with clients to understand their needs and developing flexible and realistic crisis support packages/person centred plans 
  • Promoting people’ rights and responsibilities
  • Considering each person as an individual
  • Listening to clients and encouraging positive steps towards self-management of crisis and recovery
  • Providing advice, information, practical and emotional support to clients 

Person Specification

See attached job description for full person specification

  • Minimum of 1 year working in mental health services and with clients experiencing mental health distress and crisis
  • Experience of line management within a mental health setting
  • Experience of de-escalation
  • Experience of managing challenging behaviour and dealing with clients with complex needs
  • Evidence of continual professional development
  • Understanding of the Recovery Model in mental health
  • Understanding of the principles of trauma informed care
  • Understanding of suicide prevention and safety planning
  • Experience of managing safeguarding risks and understanding legal requirements for safeguarding adults and children
  • Understanding of how to report and mitigate risks 
  • Understanding of the relationship between mental health and social issues and how these issues may impact on physical, mental and emotional wellbeing
  • Understanding of relevant legislation and policies
  • Understanding safeguarding adults and children processes and legal requirements
  • A good understanding of mental health conditions
  • Experience of working with vulnerable individuals
  • Capacity to work within an agreed shift pattern
  • Experience of delivering information and advice (housing, benefits, debt etc)
  • Experience of non-clinical, therapeutic interventions like psychoeducation
  • Ability to work out of hours and on weekends

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

HFEH Mind are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

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.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer; and are proud to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

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Hammersmith, Fulham, Ealing and Hounslow Mind View profile Company size Size: 101 - 500
Posted on: 17 May 2024
Closing date: 16 June 2024 at 23:59
Tags: Management,Support Worker

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