Support Worker

Job description

About

Are you passionate about making a difference to our citizens and the district that they reside in? Then, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team.

About the Role:

Intimate personal care: showering/bathing, dressing or undressing, assisting with toileting

Administering medication and support with meal preparation to enable individuals to get the most from their daily life

You will have an understanding of the importance of social inclusion, promoting independence and enabling positive life choices.

To support people with a learning disability in their own homes and enable them to live as independent a life as possible, following the values and principles contained in “Valuing People”.

To enable men and women with learning disabilities to have more control over their lives through person centred approaches, which maximise community inclusion and participation and are responsive to the needs and wishes of the individual.

To support tenants with their finances, including ensuring that commitments are met and all welfare benefits to which they are entitled including Housing Benefit are claimed.

To enable and encourage tenants to undertake daily living skills including cooking, and other household tasks, taking account of individual choice, cultural backgrounds, and religious beliefs

To give practical, personal and emotional support, including intimate personal care, to enable service users to meet their assessed need by maintaining and promoting their health, physical and mental well-being and social development.

To develop, with tenants, families, and other professionals as appropriate, care plans, support plans and risk assessments to enable people to maintain a quality of life in line with their person-centred plans.

This is a waking night position supporting tenants with all care and support needs throughout the night

Key Responsibilities:

personal care

Emotional support

promoting independence

Health and wellbeing monitoring

safeguarding

following care/support plans

Maintaining professional standards

Ability to stay awake throughout the night