Accommodation Support Worker
An Accommodation Support Worker works within Link In Adult Services to provide accommodation support to our service users and ensuring high quality service standards which meet their individual needs and objectives. Duties can range from domestic assistance, support with home and social skills and community liaison. As an Accommodation Support Worker is it essential that you are a positive role model and demonstrate patience, flexibility and understanding.

Community Access Support Worker
A Community Access Support Worker works within Link In Adult Services to provide community access support to our service users to ensure they enjoy a lifestyle that meets their objectives. The role of a Community Access Support Worker is to facilitate and encourage integration in the local community through social, educational, vocational, recreational and leisure resources. This is achieved through assisting service users to and from community based activities and appointments as well as exploring opportunities within the community for the service user.

Case Worker
A Case Worker works within Link In Adult Services to assist service users in meeting their individual needs and objectives through a case management framework. The aim of a Case Worker is to establish and maintain a positive relationship with the service users that they work with in order to build on their individual capabilities and strengths. A Case Worker identifies, assesses and monitors the support needs and outcomes of the service users.

Child and Young Persons Support Worker
Support workers employed within our Children’s and Young Peoples Service are required to articulate and use a range of therapeutic and non-therapeutic tools to address the developmental needs of children and young people who have experienced trauma and / or attachment disorder as a result of abuse and neglect. All our clients within this specialist service present with medium to extreme support needs. The relationship between the child or young person and their support worker is considered pivotal to a successful therapeutic intervention. However, whilst the development of relationships is the basis of working with the children and young people in Children's and Young Peoples Services, support workers are part of a multi disciplined care team responsible for the constant assessment and individualisation of each child and young person’s treatment plan.

What is Link In Looking For?
For all of the above positions, candidates must be understanding and compassionate towards issues faced by people with a mental illness, psychiatric disability, challenging behaviours, intellectual and/or dual diagnosis. They will be expected to be able to articulate a strong values base and be able to contextualise such within their work environment. They will be required to act as a positive role model with children, young people and adults that may, from time to time, display extreme or confronting behaviours. Our support workers must be confident in their skills and have clear professional boundaries.

It is also desirable that applicants have completed at least a Certificate IV in Disability Work or similar and be expected to have well developed written and verbal communication skills. Most importantly you must be passionate and committed to making a difference in people's lives.