Support worker

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

What will be expected from me?

• Empathy and patience
• good communication skills
• reliability and responsibility
• respect for dignity and privacy

Essential requirements:

• Knowledge of current legislation, guidance and value base, e.g. Valuing People, in the field of learning disabilities.
• To be mobile in being able to carry out the physical tasks within the job.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in written form, using the English language; able to produce accurate, factual, legible and clear reports.
• The ability to work as a team member and on own.
• Understanding of and ability to demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities and diversity.
• Ability to work with people with a learning disability to promote independence.
• Be able to maintain confidentiality
• Previous experience of caring.
• Ability to implement and monitor a high-quality service delivery

What can I expect?

• A competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy up to 10 extra days of annual leave
• Hybrid working (subject to role suitability)
• Access to high-quality training programs to advance your career to the next level.
• We are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our staff. We recognise that resilient teams need good work life balance as well as supportive leadership.
• Discounted and subsidised public transport (Arriva Bus Annual Travel Ticket, Northern Trains Limited (NTL), MetroCard).
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and a Shared Cost Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) scheme providing a tax efficient way to increase our pension.
• Great range of benefits including an Employee Assistant Programme, discounted membership to our excellent leisure facilities with free 12 weeks exercise program, discounts for a range of retail, entertainment, health and leisure providers, a cycle to work scheme, and many more

Want to know more?

If you would like to know more about the role, the recruitment process or working for Wakefield Council, feel free to contact.

Name: Kim Finnerty

Tel: 01924 302680

E-mail: kfinnerty@wakefield.gov.uk

Join us and make a real impact in the community. Apply today to become a valued member of our team!

Safeguarding

Wakefield Council is wholly committed to ensuring children and vulnerable adults are fully supported and safe. We are dedicated to the safeguarding of all children and vulnerable adults whilst promoting their welfare. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this responsibility.

DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service)

The successful applicant will be required to complete a Disclosure Application Form and to provide criminal conviction information.

Probation

In accordance with the Council Probation Procedure, this post is subject to a 6-month Probationary Period.

Fluency Duty

To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), public facing roles will be subject to the Fluency Duty.

Diversity

Having a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve helps us to achieve the best outcomes for all. We encourage applications from everyone and actively seek to ensure that everyone feels included in the workplace so that we can make the most of our differences.

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