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Independence Support Assistant
4 months ago
**Job details**:
**Salary**: £29,777 - £33,945
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 3rd April 2024
**Why work in Portsmouth**
Portsmouth is a great waterfront city and a vibrant place to live and work. It is an island city with an “inner city” feel, a seaside location packed with attractions and events, and the advantage of fantastic countryside on its doorstep. With a fast-growing university, high-tech industries and a vibrant cultural scene, Portsmouth is a modern city that looks to the future, but which is proud of its unique heritage as the home of the Royal Navy and historic dockyard. With fast road and rail links to London, Brighton and major airports, and ferry links to Europe, it is the perfect place to live and work.
**The Service**:
The Integrated Learning Disability Team Service is a part of Adult Social Care and is based at the Kestrel Centre at the Civic Offices. The team is a fully integrated Social Care and Health Team, and the successful applicant will be one of about 20 Social Workers delivering a range of services and support with our Independent Support Assistants, Learning Disability Nurses, Psychologists, Psychiatrist, Physiotherapist, Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists
**The Role**:
This role involves assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable adults with Learning Disabilities and their carers, to then identify creative ways to meet their assessed outcomes. The team is committed to pursuing the personalisation agenda, to promote independence, inclusion, choice and rights of service users and their carers. Working in partnership with service users, carers, provider services and other professionals are key elements of the job.
**What you'll need to succeed
**You need to:
- Be educated to GCSE A - C in maths and English or equivalent qualification or Literacy/numeracy skill.
- Have experience of working with Adults with Learning Disabilities ideally within a fieldwork setting.
- Be able to advocate for users and carers using a problem-solving approach.
- Have good assessment skills.
- Be motivated to achieve positive outcomes in relation to rights choice, independence and inclusion.
- Be able to acknowledge, respect and respond to individual differences and diversity requirements.
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**What you'll get in return**
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Flexible working hours.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme.
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
**Additional Information:
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If you have any questions, or would like an informal discussion about the role, please call Jon Woods, Karen Palmer or Ruth Kuil on 0300 1234019.
**Application process:
Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.
Applicants will be shortlisted based on their ability to use good examples that meet the criteria of this role.
**You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
We look forward to speaking with you soon.
