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Support Worker – Dom Care and Supported Living
Vacancy: Support Worker – Dom Care and Supported Living
Location: Various
Hours: Full time @ 38 hours per week with an average of 2 sleep-ins per week.
Salary: Starting at £12.21ph
Essential Requirement:
- flexibility to work on a rotational rota pattern covering Monday – Sunday each week across shifts patterns which include early shifts, day shifts, late shifts, sleep-ins and some weekends.
- Resilience and adaptability are key as this role involves lone working either with an individual or a small group, as well as working as part of the wider Care team.
- A genuine desire to support and improve lives of others
Key Responsibilities:
- Assisting services users with bathing, grooming and getting dressed
- Encouraging and supporting on tasks within their own home including household chores
- Supporting and encouraging them to plan and access their social life, activities, and engagements within the local community and beyond
- Providing mental and emotional support
- Organising, supporting and encouraging suitable recreational activities for service users
- Collaborating with other health care and social care professionals to provide the best possible care to service users
- Prompt the taking of medication or administer medication, including performing health checks.
- Flagging up any concerns or potential for concern that you may impact service user or the service provision.
- Supporting service users with meal planning, shopping, preparing, and cooking nutritious meals.
Benefits:
- Fully paid CPD.
- Paid DBS
- Annual Leave: 28 days pro-rata