Job role: Care and Support Worker.
Job sector: Healthcare.
Job Type: Full-time.
Country: United Kingdom.
Salary: £23,302 per year.
Benefits;
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part-time) per year.
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities.
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra day off.
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
- Life assurance covers 3 x your salary.
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members to.
- Tenancy deposit – interest-free loan to help with rental deposits.
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with the Wise Box platform.
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organizational activity and link in with colleagues.
- Career progression across the organization with our mentoring program and apprenticeships.
- We are committed to the well-being of our colleagues and support this as an organization.
About the Job.
We are seeking a Care and Support Worker for our service in Hackney Community Support. Providing support to individuals with learning difficulties in their own homes our customers have varying degrees of care needs. This is a lone working role where you will be required to work in the community on a shift basis for 37.5 hours a week.
This scheme supports 11 customers in the community. Each customer has unique learning disabilities, mental health, and individual care requirements. The purpose of your role will be to provide support to these customers during the hours on the rota. This will depend on the individual’s care package and requires flexibility. There will be a requirement of personal care by some of our customers as well.
You will be responsible for support plans and liaising with others who support residents on a day-to-day basis to remain independent. This includes encouraging customers to be as independent as possible and be involved in social activities so they are a valuable part of the community.
Ensure customers are supported in a safe and caring environment with the confidence to raise issues.
Recognize changes in customer behaviors and potential safeguarding issues associated. Respond and challenge in an appropriate and empathetic manner.
Work with colleagues to maintain accurate customer records.
Work closely and cooperatively with external agencies and family members to offer customers a cohesive care and support service to develop and/or maintain independence.
Work closely and cooperatively with external agencies and family members to offer customers a cohesive care and support service to develop and/or maintain independence.
Undertake risk assessments for customers and administration and recording of medication in line with care plans. General responsibilities.
All our services are in the community where support is provided 7 days rota and sleep in one of the customer houses male staff only. You will therefore need to be able to work on a shift basis plus at least 1 sleep shift in a week for one of the customers male only.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers we will complete an enhanced background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, which will include a check of the Adult Barred list, once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.