Relief Support Worker

7 months ago

Aberdeen, United Kingdom VSA Full time

VSA is a well-respected local social care charity, helping support the people of Aberdeen for over 150 years.

Our mission is to provide the best of care to enable the best of lives; supporting individuals and communities to fulfil their potential.

VSA provides vital support and services to people of all ages. At VSA we support a person’s physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing through a range of residential and outreach support Services.

Working in social care is a hugely rewarding career, and you can help change the lives of vulnerable children and adults. At VSA, we are looking for motivated and compassionate individuals to join our team.

VSA currently have an exciting opportunity available to join our **Older People's Services** as a Support/Care Worker based in Aberdeen. This will be on a relief basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary and benefits.

**Hours: Relief**

**Salary/Rate: £11.10 per hour**

**About the role:
As a Support/Care Worker of this busy service you will be required to contribute to the effective provision of an integrated, inclusive and quality service designed to meet the care, social and educational needs of the service users and achieving the best possible outcomes for them whilst supporting the full implementation of the 24 hour curriculum, according to agreed statutory & VSA standards, policies and regulatory requirements, monitoring the effective use of staffing resources.

**Responsibilities of our Support/Care Worker will include**:

- Identifying ways of communicating effectively on difficult, complex and sensitive issues. Supporting individuals appropriately in the communication process, especially where specific communication needs have been identified
- Updating and maintaining records and reports according to statutory and organisational procedures and requirements.
- Promoting, monitoring and maintaining health, safety and security in the working environment, including medication administration. Minimise risks arising from emergencies and ensure service users, colleagues, and self are safe and secure in the workplace and to follow, at all times, the policy and guidance on child protection and supporting service users to maximise self care skills following relevant policies and procedures.
- Promoting the well being and protection of the service users, working with them in ways which promote their rights and responsibilities, supporting them to express their views and preferences about their health and well being.
- Contributing to the protection of service users from abuse, including the identification of possible abuse. Handling disclosures from service users and reporting information about abuse according to policies and procedures. Providing support to students who may have been abused.
- Ensuring that the service users’ physical environment is clean and comfortable, supporting them with their physical care needs, including toileting, as appropriate.
- Contributing to the assessment of service users’ development levels and support needs at night time by ensuring the implementation of programmes and support activities, and contributing to evaluation of the service users’ participation in such programmes and activities.
- Assisting in the preparation and maintenance of night time learning environments and contributing to the planning and evaluation of learning activities.
- Contributing to the planning and implementation of night time programmes for service users; reviewing the effectiveness of such programmes and balancing group needs against the preferences and needs of individual service users.
- Contributing to practice which promotes group care as a positive experience, promoting individual growth and development where service users feel valued and safe; where they are empowered to identify and implement activities of benefit to the group.
- Contributing to the prevention and management of challenging behaviour in service users, negotiating boundaries and identifying goals to promote acceptable levels of behaviour and working positively with risk assessments to enable access to the wider curriculum.
- Contributing to the planning, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic programmes to help service users manage their behaviour.
- Establishing and sustaining effective working relationships with service users as part of an overall strategy to confront anti-social and promote pro-social behaviour.
- Developing and implementing programmes to support service users with sensory difficulties to find their way around environments that are part of their daily living.
- Carrying out extended feeding techniques, where appropriate, to ensure individual service user’s nutritional and fluid intake, by following specified procedures including health and safety measures.
- Developing one’s knowledge and practice continuously through participation in training and development activities.
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