Part-time Jobs in Milton keynes, buckinghamshire, england

Do y ou have previous experience in the food service industry and looking for a change? If so, join  Chadwick Lodge  as a Vocational Support Worker and change the lives of  people with a range of  Mental health  conditions.

As the Vocational Support Worker, you will be responsible for supporting the day to day running of the silver lining café / shop which is run by service users. You will be involved in working alongside our service users and providing training, support and supervision for service users to ensure skill development and satisfaction in their role.

Working 16 hours a week, you will co-produce with the vocational lead, service users, menu’s for the café, support and develop food-based events including initiatives to build awareness and contribute to positive wellbeing through the cafes menu as well as contributing to training courses for service users and projects.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will be supported regionally and will have access to a variety of training and online courses to support your career development and growth.

As a Vocational Support Worker, you will be :

• Planning menus, sourcing ingredients in line with the café ethos.
• Developing and leading the production of food products for sale in the café.
• Ensuring a professional level of customer service is always delivered by all café staff.
• Developing and managing relationships with customers, workers, and suppliers to ensure the efficient running of the café and to create a warm and welcoming environment.
• Coordinating the café workers to ensure the café is adequately staffed.
• Facilitating cooking courses for workers.
• Providing individual training support for café workers and provide an induction for all new café workers.
• Working collaboratively with patients / service users to identify and work towards their recovery focussed goals
• Maintaining adequate records, entering details in the service user healthcare records.

To be successful in this role, you will have :

Where you will be working :

Location :   Chadwick Drive (off Saxon Street), Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 5LS

You will be working at Chadwick Lodge and Eaglestone View, a medium and low secure services providing specialist treatment programmes for service users who have been detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) and have a history of offending behaviour.

The service offer a broad spectrum of evidence-based therapeutic interventions, involving service users at every stage. The hospital’s consultant-led multidisciplinary team has a wealth of clinical and research experience in forensic psychiatry. All programmes are designed to reduce the risk of re-offending and to maximise the potential and enhance the quality of life of each service users.

Chadwick Lodge secure services care for service users with complex and enduring mental illness who need to achieve stability in order to benefit from multidisciplinary interventions, helping them move on to community settings whenever possible

What you will get :

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer :

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.