Adult’s Support Worker, Family Breaks

January 10, 2024
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Job Description

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Support Worker, Family Breaks this is Full Time of based in Swindon.

The salary for this permanent job is up to £20,938 p.a.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assist in providing support and care to service users in accordance with their agreed support plans and achieve this in a person centred way
  • Assist in providing services that comply with the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2015, meet or exceed the Essential Standards of Quality and Safety, and in accordance with the local Statement of Purpose and Service User Guide
  • Work within the legislative requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and the associated Essential Standards of Quality and Safety
  • Comply with all other legislative requirements applicable to the service and workplace
  • Report suspected or disclosed abuse to a senior manager immediately
  • Maintain service users’ rights, dignity, privacy, and respect and follow principles of confidentiality
  • Support service users in taking medication in accordance with agreed policies and procedures
  • Act as key-worker to individual service users, liaising with relatives, carers and other key people in their lives as appropriate
  • Contribute to individual person-centred support plans and take part in meetings and reviews as required
  • Respond appropriately to incidents as they occur and report to senior staff accordingly
  • Take responsibility for assigned tasks determined by senior staff or line manager

Knowledge & Experience:

  • Eligible to work in the UK
  • Able to complete all elements of the induction programme
  • Able to attend and participate in all statutory training events
  • Ability to
    • Provide personal care for people
    • Support people in day-to-day activities at home and in the community
    • Support people with household tasks including but not exclusively; cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping
    • Support people taking part in leisure, recreation, social and educational activities
    • Experience of working with people with disabilities
  • NVQ level 2 in Care (Adult)/Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care (Adult) or equivalent

Contact:

This job is advertised by Sam Kittle; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.