Senior Support Worker

1 week ago


Teignmouth, United Kingdom Priory Adult Care Full time

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Riverview is a residential service that provides personalised, high quality, safe support for 9 adults with complex needs including Autism, behaviours that challenge, acquired brain injury and learning disabilities.

Essential to being successful in this role you will need to
- Be flexible in meeting the needs of the individuals and the service.
- Manage stressful and challenging situations calmly by leading by example to ensure situations are managed safely and staff and residents supported appropriately.
- Make decisions on a daily basis.
- Understand the need for accurate record keeping and will at all times follow policy and procedures, support plans, risk assessments and relevant legislation.
- Take guidance and development support from Team Leaders and Management as well as support your team to ensure that a culture of learning and progress for the service is at the centre of our practice.
- Provide meaningful supervisions to your team and lead team meetings as required.
- Be comfortable taking on additional responsibility as required by management including your own area of accountability within the service.

You will be confident in;
- Understanding Autism and challenging behaviour
- Using a Positive Behaviour Support approach to supporting our residents
- Being responsible for and leading a team of support workers and key workers
- Administering medication
- Meeting with professionals both internally and externally
- Managing individual’s finances and the homes budget as required for the role in line with policy and procedures.
- Managing Quality Performance Indicators (QPI) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the service.
- Audits and meet the actions assigned to you in a timely manner.
- Support the service in performance management and the disciplinary process as required.
- Shared learning from all situations and supporting the team to meet compliance and excel in delivering an outstanding level of quality to the resident of our service.

**It will be essential that you have experience in a similar setting, and are able you lead a team to meet the needs of the individuals, you will also need to be able to use a computer and full clean driving licence preferred.


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