Mental Health Support Worker

Job description

We are looking for confident Care & Support Workers with a passion for delivering outstanding care.

You will be working a full time contract (37.5 hours per week) with 12 hour shifts across days, nights and weekends at Cygnet Hospital Bury Dunes.

Your role involves working with male and female service users on one of our high priority adult wards, supporting individuals with personality disorders and other mental health issues.

Successful applicants will attend a 3‐week full time induction at the start of employment (Monday to Friday 9am‐5pm).

Cygnet Bury Dunes provides a wide range of inpatient mental health services for men and women, including specialist deaf services and emergency admission services. Each user has a bedroom with en suite facilities and a range of communal spaces such as a gym, laundry, occupational therapy kitchen, therapy garden and woodland walkways to the Elton Reservoir.

Main duties of the jobYour day‐to‐day responsibilities include:

Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all our service users, patients & residents

Provide guidance and encouragement through physical & emotional support

Learn about individuals' specific needs and provide help in the most appropriate way

Assist with medical & welfare needs and report as required

Safeguard

Maintain a safe and clean environment for all

About usWhy Cygnet? We'll offer you:

£12.60 per hour salary

An opening to undertake further learning with our excellent apprenticeship scheme

Flexible working with opportunity for overtime

Regular coaching & appraisal

Expert supervision & peer support

Employee discount savings & Cycle to Work scheme

Wellbeing centre with exercises, recipes, financial and mental health advice

Please note: successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

You are:

Genuinely driven with a desire to make a real difference in people's lives

An excellent communicator and a good team player

Sensitive and intuitive with the energy required to provide a trusting, stimulating & varied environment

Committed to empowering & supporting service user independence

What next?

If you care about making a difference we want to talk to you. Click the button to apply.

Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.

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Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Bury

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

26-05-2026

Profession type

Counselling and Social Services

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English