Support Worker

3 weeks ago

Berkshire, United Kingdom Younger People with Dementia CIO Full time

**Join Our Team as a Support Worker: Making a Difference Every Day**

Are you passionate about making a positive impact in people's lives? Do you have a genuine desire to provide support to those who need it most? If so, we invite you to embark on a fulfilling journey with us as a Support Worker.

We are a charity that provides support to those living with young onset dementia in Berkshire, Surrey Heath, NE Hants and Farnham. Services we provide are age-appropriate and meaningful workshops, 1:1 support, education courses and support groups. Young onset dementia affects adults under the age of 65. Nationally there are about 70,800 people with young onset dementia, with an estimated 900 in Surrey and 679 in Berkshire.

**Support Worker, full-time (job share considered)**
**Salary £24,000 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)**

Within this role you will support us in the delivery of our services, with a focus on the provision of workshops and 1:1 support. Examples of workshops delivered within the community are katakanuing, singing, walking, running, book groups and art. We are looking for someone with initiative, an interest in dementia, reliable, creative, fun and caring. If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you.

YPWD CIO, Indigo House, First Floor Unit 9,

**The Role**

This role provides a suite of well-run and planned activities, one to one support, workshops and support groups throughout the working week to people living with a diagnosis of young onset dementia. These workshops and activities are varied and risk-positive, operating throughout the year. They include activities such as art, cooking, equine therapy, katakanuing, sport and many more. Activities selected are age-appropriate, meaningful and provide therapeutic benefit to people living with young onset dementia. You will work as part of a team delivering our mission to think differently about dementia.

**Key Performance/Result Expectations**
- Achieving all agreed actions and deadlines
- The volume of workshops, micro-groups and one to one's delivered matches agreed plan
- Minimising complaints, issues and breaches
- Ensuring accuracy and timeliness in all administrative activity (minimising, for example, the need to be ‘chased’)
- Receiving unsolicited positive feedback and praise from colleagues and service users
- Pitching in to help colleagues where there are peaks in workload or resource gaps
- Attending and ‘passing’ internal training activities in order to regularly upskill yourself
- Identifying ad-hoc ideas and opportunities which are then taken forward/adopted
- Minimising last-minute issues that could have been anticipated and prevented earlier
- Minimising support needed from others (where you have previously demonstrated the appropriate level of skill, knowledge and experience)

**Key Responsibilities/Activities**
- Support individuals where possible to boost self-esteem and confidence, and to learn new skills whilst promoting choice and independence through our services.
- Plan, prepare, risk assess and evaluate such activities/workshops and one-to
- one support for both face-to-face work and on live video platform.
- Provide full proactive, active and reactive support to service users through use of suitable evaluation tools and steering groups. Continually review services and adjust accordingly to the needs of users accessing the service.
- Establish good working relationships with existing organisations that already offer respite to people with young onset dementia in the local area.
- Ensure the service offered is accessible, user friendly, age-appropriate, activity based, stimulating and, where appropriate, research based.
- Provide one-to-one support to those with young onset dementia where appropriate. This support could take place in their home, community venues or via video call.
- Be flexible in the planning and running of workshops, adapting as may be required.
- Ensure that both written and verbal communication conforms to the highest professional standards at all times and maintains the dignity and respect of service users.
- Ensure ongoing assessment and management of risks associated with the service users within an attitude of ‘positive risk taking’.
- Attend regular supervision with line manager and memory clinics where appropriate..
- Demonstrate responsibility and leadership for promoting and championing all aspects of equal opportunities by valuing diversity in all areas of work.
- Undertake general administrative duties where required, including the completion/updating of service users’ records.
- Undertake any other duties in order to meet personal, team and organisational objectives following consultation with your manager.
- Complete both mandatory and internal training as and when directed.
- Undertake any other duties in order to meet personal, team and organisational objectives following consultation with your line manager.

**Qualifications, Key Skills and Experience**
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