Support Worker

We are seeking Support Worker to provide reliable and consistent support to improve clients’ independent living skills and prepare them to move on within an 18-month timeframe.

Position:  Support Worker – Shore House

Location: Brighton, BN2 1AJ

Salary: £ 25,948 plus £1,469 Anti-Social Hours Enhancement pro rata

Hours: 6-week rolling rota, averaging 37 hours per week. Early & Late shifts between the hours of 8am and 10.30pm.  Working alternate weekends.

Closing Date:  Rolling Recruitment

Application: Apply for this role via CV application – reference 820. Shore House are accepting CVs and conducting rolling recruitment for this vacancy.

About the Role

As a Support Worker you will deliver empowering, motivating, and personalised support to clients to enhance their emotional, physical, and financial well-being. For example: improving community engagement and social confidence, providing practical support with cooking and self-medication, and assistance with budgeting and tenancy management.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide intensive support to prevent rent arrears, self-neglect, anti-social behaviour, and tenancy breakdown.
• Be a named worker for an identified caseload of residents and take responsibility for liaising closely with relevant care teams and/or agencies, including Lead Practitioners and GPs.
• Use the Outcomes Star and risk assessments to assess needs and goals and develop safety/risk and support plans.
• Work alongside Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and the substance misuse service to provide recovery-focused structured support.
• Safely administer prescribed medication to clients, and liaise with GPs, psychiatrists and pharmacies as appropriate.

About You

To be successful in the role of Support Worker you will need to have great communication skills and be committed to the values of the organisation. You will have experience of how mental health issues can intersect and impact a client’s everyday life, as well as experience of:

• Providing emotional and practical support to vulnerable clients with complex needs.
• Supporting a caseload of clients.
• Developing structured and person-centred support plans in collaboration with clients.

In return:

In recognition of our commitment to staff, BHT Sussex has been awarded Gold Accreditation from Investors in People. We are also signed up to the Disability Confident employer scheme and have made the Mental Health at Work commitment.

You will also receive a fantastic benefits package including:

• 5.5% stakeholder pension scheme and life assurance scheme
• Medical cash plan with Medicash
• Free and confidential employee assistance helpline for both personal and work-related concerns
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Free new starter 30-day Brighton bus pass
• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days per annum pro rata, rising 1 day for each year of service to a maximum of 32 days pro rata
• The opportunity to participate in well-being and fundraising activities throughout the year

How to Apply: 

Step 1: Read the Job Description & Person Specification
Step 2: Attach your CV to an email. The title of the email should read: (Your name): BHT job reference – (job reference number).
Step 3: Send your email to jobs@bht.org.uk

BHT Sussex is unable to support with working visas for the UK, please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK.

BHT Sussex is an equal opportunities employer using a fair and open recruitment process that fully complies with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to encouraging equality, inclusion, and diversity within the workplace.

BHT Sussex is an equal opportunities employer using a fair and open recruitment process that fully complies with the requirements of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to encouraging equality, inclusion, and diversity within the workplace.

We regret that we are unable to reply to every job applicant.  However, if you are called for interview, you will be notified within seven days of the closing date.

An Enhanced DBS Check (Disclosure and Barring Service) is required on all successful applicants as a condition of employment for this post.

BHT operates an Equal Opportunities Policy