Support Worker
Mental Health | 1 N1 |£15.86 per hour (incl. of Holiday Pay) | 3-4 months | Job Ref: BD9382 | Posted: 18/03/2026
Central Recruitment is currently recruiting for a Support Worker, to work in the Islington area. The service provides high quality support to people who have a history of serious mental illness to promote their recovery and independent life skills.
The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, working across Monday - Sunday on a rota basis, covering early (8AM - 4PM) and late (2PM - 10PM) shifts. You'll be required to work alternate weekends. Temporary cover is required for approximately 3 months. The pay rate for this role is £13.85 per hour, with £2.01 holiday pay, totalling £15.86 per hour.
In this position, you will be required to:
- Hold a caseload of key clients and conduct regular key working sessions resulting in Support Plans
- Carry out needs and risk assessments, provide support and carry out reviews
- Work with service users in a person centred, recovery focused and trauma informed way
- Promote the principles of co-production with our customers
- Support customers to maximise their income, to access benefits and to budget to cover domestic bills and living expenses
- Support customers to sustain their housing and identify and move on to housing which meets their needs
- Prompt customers re. medication and encourage self-management of health and wellbeing
- Undertake administrative duties and any other reasonable requests from your line manager
- Accurately input all client data onto an electronic monitoring system and ensure records are maintained to evidence key performance targets and comply with commissioner requirements
- Liaise promptly with colleagues, partner agencies and other stakeholders regarding safeguarding, welfare and risk concerns
- Abide by and promote a positive health and safety culture, ensuring that activities are carried out in accordance with Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Please note; this role involves loneworking
To apply for this role, you must have:
- Experience working with mental health and/or dual diagnosis and promoting their recovery and independence
- Experience of using support planning and risk assessment tools
- Experience and knowledge of the Recovery Model and Trauma Informed Care
- Committed to providing excellent customer service - whether you are in direct contact with customers, speaking to them on the phone or dealing with internal colleagues
- Kind and empathetic and respect the individual characteristics and needs of the diverse range of customers you'll be dealing with
- Have an approachable manner and the resilience to cope with a busy, challenging and emotive job
- Knowledge of Health and Safety and Safeguarding in a supported housing environment
- Ability and confidence to lone work
- Effective Report writing and IT literacy including Word, excel and data entry systems
Candidates must confirm their interest as soon as possible, with interviews scheduled shortly after and the appointed candidate expected to start as soon as possible
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