Adult’s Reablement Community Support Worker

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Reablement Community Support Workers  to work up to Full Time based in Swindon.

The salary for this permanent job is up to £22,485p.a.

Key Accountabilities:

• To be available to work 5 days over a 7 day period within a flexible shift rota days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays, to cover the needs of the service users (at short notice if necessary) within agreed availability
• To encourage, enable and support very vulnerable service users where possible, to develop, regain and maintain skills to maximize independent living. This will involve prompting and/or support with very personal care tasks
• To continuously assess service users’ needs and monitor against the aims, objectives and outcomes of the Support/Care Plan, feeding back where support can be reduced or ceased, in a timely manner. To participate in the assessment and care/support planning process
• To participate in a range of formal and informal meetings/feedback regarding service users’ abilities/needs. This may include organising and/or being part of regular Service Reviews
• To support Service Users in managing their finances where required, this could include helping with shopping, bill paying, pension collection, confirmation of finances and reassurance regarding finances.
• To support service users with identified aspects of medication administration prescribed by GP, consultant or prescribing nurse in line with Medication Policy
• Working alongside other health care professionals, to participate in the monitoring of service users mental and physical health, and to support and enable them to access necessary agencies or support as required. To also contribute to the promotion of positive links with other locality community agencies/groups
• To support service users to advocate for themselves as much as possible, where appropriate, and in consultation with a senior, address issues of concern on behalf of the service user, sourcing advocates and possibly interpreters where required
• Maintain accurate and up to date records of work with service users, including report writing of all visits, occurrences, medication errors/concerns, recording and reporting any accidents, incidents or near misses that occur
• To provide physical and emotional support for service users who may be nearing the end of life, in conjunction with their families, friends and other professionals, with support from staff team and seniors

Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience of caring for vulnerable adults, with a wide range of complex needs
• Experience of working in the community or care home on a one-to-one basis with service users
• Knowledge of the issues affecting vulnerable people
• Understanding of Health and Safety and manual handling issues
• Understanding of the need to keep within professional boundaries
• Experience of lone and team working

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.