Community Support Worker

Job Title: Community Support Worker
Job Type : Permanent
Location : Attleborough

Days and hours of work : 37 hours per week various shift patterns including sleep-ins and weekends)

2-3 sleep-ins per week

Shift patterns varies- 3pm-10pm or 11pm followed by a sleep-in then a further shift until 9am/10am, or 3pm /9am 3pm (or anything in between).

Start Date: Immediately
Salary :

Monday to Friday: GBP12.80 per hour

Monday to Friday 6pm to 10pm/11pm GBP13.40 per hour

Weekend hours: GBP14.40 per hour

Sleep-ins: GBP43.00

We are recruiting on behalf of our client for a Female Community Support Worker based in Attleborough but will be required to travel to other locations. Our client provides a respite service to people with learning disabilities and others within the community. To help develop and support the independence of the service users

Responsibilites and duties:

• To create, maintain, monitor and develop high standards of practice through team working.
• To regularly attend and take an active part in team meetings, ensuring they are used for open and honest discussion that enhances good practice.
• To help create and maintain, within staff team, practices which support the provision of a high quality service to users and carers.
• To undertake any training that is agreed to be necessary for the job including the Care Certificate and where necessary, registration on the Learning Disabilities Award Framework.
• To work within a rota to provide appropriate support for service users.
• To undertake sleep-in duties to ensure appropriate cover for the service, as required.
• To maintain a level of proficiency in First Aid.
• To maintain a knowledge and understanding of procedures in case of emergency.
• To keep a proper account of the expenditure of any monies belonging to the oranisation and/or individual service users.
• To undertake domestic tasks, usually in association with service users, to ensure proper standards of health, hygiene and catering.
• To take responsibility, with service users, for menu planning and food preparation.
• To support service users to complete benefit forms and to find work/volunteering roles.
• To identify any actual or potential risks under the Health and Safety at Work Act and bring them to the attention of the Services Manager.
• To act as key worker to nominated individual service users, developing knowledge of their particular and individual requirements and working with them on plans to meet their needs.
• To monitor the health and welfare of service users, always aiming to achieve in practice the principles of normal living.
• To undertake risk assessments and monitor the risk of particular activities to ensure that, within the limits set by the individual s needs for growth and change, the individual is not exposed to unnecessary risk.
• To support service users in their medication regime, in line with defined policy and practice.
• To provide a link for information, communication and support between the service and the carers and supporters of service users.
• To liaise with the carers and supporters, ensuring that their views and those of the service user are heard.

Requirements:

• Must be female and have experience in a similar role in the UK
• Must be a driver and have use of a car- mileage paid of 45p per mile
• Medication trained
• Care Certificate
• Must have a full enhanced DBS that is on the update service
• Excellent communication (verbal and written)
• We are not a sponsoring organisationWe are looking at permanent employment only

Company Benefits

• 22 Days holiday per annum plus bank holidays - rising after 5 years
• company sick pay
• HSF health plan
• HSF Perkbox
• HSF assist
• Employee Wellbeing
• Work/life Balance
• Employee training and Develppment
• Refer a friend to work scheme
• Monthly staff draws
• credit union membership
• Uniform