Rapid Response Support Worker

4 months ago

Gainsborough, United Kingdom CareinLincs Full time

Position: Rapid Response Worker

**Salary**: £24,812

Hours: 37.5 per week

Contract: Permanent (52 Wks)

Location: Gainsborough

Benefits of working for Linkage:

- 6 weeks paid annual leave (including bank holidays)
- Health and wellbeing support including employment, financial and mental health via an employee assistance programme
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card (£4.99 for 2 years' membership)
- Membership to the 'Company Shop' for discounted food and household products
- Linkage Lottery cash prizes
- Long Service bonus every 5 years
- Recommend a friend bonus - £100 for you and your friend if they are recruited, and another £100 for you once they have passed their probationary period
- Contracted hours from day one

About the role:
Linkage Community Trust is looking for a Rapid Response Worker to join our team as we develop a new and exciting service in and around the Gainsborough area.

The Rapid Response post is initially for a 12-month period, thereafter a comparable position within Linkage Community Trust shall be available.

Everything we do is about valuing and supporting individuals, their carers and families to ensure that they can achieve their aspirations. We are committed to creating opportunities to improve the lives of the people we support now and in future generations.

This new role is an opportunity to join our care and support team as we continue to invest in the development of services within Lincolnshire and specifically this new location of Gainsborough.

We are looking forward to providing more services for individuals with a wider range of support needs across a wider area.

Who are You?
- You are an established professional working in a Learning disability setting with good knowledge of undertaking assessments, creating care plans and identifying risks to ensure that individuals independence is promoted and managed in a positive way - as an existing Senior or Deputy manager this is an exciting prospect to build upon existing knowledge whilst building new skills
- You are passionate about quality and committed to providing high quality care
- You are supportive of choice, enthusiastic and committed to championing the independence of the people we support
- You are able to remain calm in challenging situations with a considerate and understanding approach towards to needs of the individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism

About the role:

- You will work as part of the rapid response team working across the Gainsborough area, providing short term care and support to people with a Learning disability and/or Autism
- You will facilitate discharges from hospital to residential settings or to the individuals own home, and/or prevent in patient admissions where possible
- You will contribute to and undertake initial assessments for individuals ensuring that person centred support plans are implemented and any identified risks are managed positively to promote independence
- You will support the service in providing a swift response to service requests and to act as the co-ordinator between the person needing the support and other organisations and agencies as needed.
- You will be flexible to requests for assessments and support, providing engagement at times that may be outside of core hours
- You will have experience of working with service commissioners, acting in a responsive manner upon receipt of referrals, and working flexibly to meet the needs of the individuals accessing the service
- You will be confident in maintaining accurate and detailed electronic records and have good IT skills

The Organisation

Linkage Community Trust is a registered charity that supports people with learning disabilities, autism or both. We deliver high quality specialist education, care (including residential), adult day services, employability and support services throughout Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire

Our values are central to providing high quality, personalised and effective care, support and education to the people we support and to our students.

Independence we will support and encourage individuals to make decisions about their own lives and the freedom to live the life they choose, based upon their talents and abilities

Teamwork we will work together collaboratively, as one Linkage, to achieve common goals and engage with partners to deliver more services to more people

Respect we will respect and value the views, ideas, feelings and opinions of everyone we deal with

Honesty we will be honest, open and transparent in our dealings

As an employer, we are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer,

You will be joining a 600 plus team of staff and volunteers who are working county wide in the Lincoln, Spilsby, Skegness, Louth, Mablethorpe, Beverley and Grimsby.

As an equal opportunities employer, Linkage Community Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the

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