Activity Coordinator Support Worker

3 months ago

Colchester, United Kingdom Essex Care Consortium Full time

**Activity SUPPORT Worker**

Monday to Thursday 9 - 5 pm, Friday 9 - 4 pm.

**Driver required to take clients to activities.**

Main purpose of position
- To share with other staff in meeting the needs of service users in a way that respects the dignity of the individual and promotes independence.
- Undertaking delegated responsibilities at the appropriate level.

Responsible to:

- Senior facilitators, team leader, manager, and partners.

Liaising with:

- Service users, Essex Care Consortium staff, managers, relatives and friends of service users, outside agencies, professionals, and members of the public.

Recruitment, employment, and training
- To complete Essex Care Consortium induction training for new staff within the first three months of employment.
- To attend, complete and keep up to date any personal training provided by Essex Care Consortium.
- To ensure all staff follow Essex Care Consortium rotas, reporting any short falls in staffing to the team leader/manager/on call manager.
- To provide residential emergency cover during your working hours.
- To ensure that you follow the Essex Care Consortium annual leave and sickness policies.
- To be aware of Essex Care Consortium Policy regarding staff conduct and dress code and ensure that all staff follow this.
- To be aware of Essex Care Consortium grievance and disciplinary procedures.
- To be aware of Essex Care Consortium complaints procedures and assist in ensuring these are followed appropriately.

Care of service users
- To assist with referral appointments and meetings regarding admission of service users, completing any necessary paperwork as required.
- To assist and support service users with their admission and discharge transitions.
- To welcome new service users and their relatives to the Learning and Development Centre
- To assist the service users with all aspects of personal care, ensuring that the core values of care are always promoted:
**Privacy, dignity, respect, fulfilment, choice, independence, self-esteem, safety**
- To ensure the following are maintained to Essex Care Consortium standards:
activity rooms

monitoring of health

personal hygiene.
- Where necessary, to take responsibility for designing session plans following the set criteria in such a manner that individual progress and achievement may be evaluated and
correctly recorded.
- To take responsibility that any activity is correctly organized, and staff are given the necessary information required to ensure the needs of individual service users/groups are being taken into consideration and catered for.
- To liaise with staff and management to ensure that session plans are informative, instructive, and appropriate.
- To be always responsible for ensuring that service users’ needs are being met by the service as laid down in Goal Plans and Care Plans where appropriate.
- To encourage and motivate service users to build upon existing skills and, wherever possible and appropriate, develop new ones.
- To provide guidance, instruction, and the necessary level of supervision in order that the service user can understand and complete an objective in such a manner that a sense of achievement is reached.
- To be aware that the process of learning is two-fold on the part of the student and the
staff member.
- To assist with the appropriate administration of medication following procedures set out in the staff handbook and endorsed by Boots Monitored System and training.
- To act as link worker, keeping the Link worker Folder up to date and carrying out all responsibilities described in the Link worker Role.
- To produce goal plans in conjunction with service users following guidelines provided by Essex Care Consortium ensuring that each Goal Plan contains an up-to-date copy of the following:
Looking after myself plan, infringement of rights and risk assessments.

Getting out and about plan, infringement of rights and risk assessments

Understanding myself plan, infringement of rights and risk assessments.

Care Planning Contract

Care Plan Evaluation.
- To produce a review report in conjunction with the service user and all those involved, following Essex Care Consortium guidelines.
- To ensure service users wishes and opinions are listened to.
- To ensure a wide range of activities are offered to service users with appropriate staffing.
- To support service users within their home following all relevant guidelines.

Protection of service users
- To be aware of and ensure the appropriate use of the following procedures and policies:
all policies and procedures contained in the protection of service users’ section within the Essex Care Consortium Staff Handbook

Essex County Council Vulnerable Adults Policy

Essex County Council Guidelines for the Protection of Children.
- To report to the senior, team leader or manager anything, however minor, that is a cause for concern regarding the care of a service user.
- At all times, listen and take notice of what a service user is

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