ABOUT US

Venture-People is an award-winning organisation, formed from our shared ambition to provide high-quality and psychologically informed support.
We provide bespoke, community-based support to individuals with complex needs; including a mental health diagnosis, neurodiversity, or those who may have endured trauma.
The people we support may have spent an extended period in hospital or another setting, therefore we utilise a person-centred approach; empowering individuals to become as independent as possible within their own homes

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

Skills & Experience

• Previous experience, ideally Mental Health/LD/Neurodiverse support.
• Ability to positively address and challenge inappropriate or negative behaviours and attitudes.
• Experience of using therapeutic de-escalation and/or crisis intervention techniques.
• Able to respond to changes in an individual’s needs and meet deadlines.
• To encourage and manage participation and involvement from the people we support.
• Computer literate, with confidence in using all Microsoft office programmes

Desired Skills:
It would be desirable for you to have had experience supporting a person(s) with a mental health condition and within a community-based service.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Venture People specialise in providing support to clients experiencing mental health difficulties and operate a number of options to ensure we are providing the greatest range of person centered, recovery services. In the Brighton and Hove area we operate both Outreach, community based support and Accommodation services which provide a more intensive service, usually in a shared living environment with other clients and sleep in contingency support overnight.

Key Duties

• To facilitate the delivery of a service which follows a person-centred ethos and promotes independence.
• To complete dynamic risk assessments and support plans.
• Promote wellbeing and appropriately manage risk.
• Ensure adherence to company and national policies and procedures.
• To work flexibly as required by the service; this may require some working outside of your normal hours to provide consistent support