Residential Support Worker

4 months ago

Harborne, United Kingdom Queen Alexandra College Full time

**Description**:
**Working Pattern**:
**38 hours / 45.2 weeks inclusive of annual leave**

To be part of a team of care staff supporting residential students to access the 24 hour curriculum at QAC by working towards set targets to develop student’s independent living skills.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Understand and respect individual student’s right, choices, personal dignity, privacy and aspirations.
- Support personal care needs of students requiring assistance dressing, toileting and washing.
- Appreciate and comply with CQC Regulations in relation to residential care.
- To administer prescribed Medication and Homely Remedies to Students as required, closely following QAC’s Handling and Administering Medication policy. To immediately act up any medication errors.
- To support students with healthcare needs including, but not limited to, Diabetes and Epilepsy.
- To support students with managing emotional and behavioural needs as per positive support plans and with support of pastoral team.
- Help plan, promote and maintain good care practice and contribute positively to team work through good communication with other residential support staff and attend team meetings.
- To monitor daily support and achievements via the ‘Care Log’ system on Databridge MIS
- Contribute to the implementation of care plans, risk assessments, student reviews, and targets
- To act as a designated key worker working on a 1-1 basis with the student to achieve their targets
- To partake in student progress reviews and support with transition plans for post college
- Liaise with students’ families, where appropriate
- Liaise on a regular basis with College personal tutors and other staff
- Initiate and be involved in students’ leisure activities
- Encourage integration and inclusion into the wider social community
- Maintain effective record systems to a quality standard which complies with internal and external regulations
- Actively partake in professional supervision and attend mandatory training as required
- To have a flexible approach to rota requirements within the remit of service need as directed by Shift Leaders, Assistant Home Manager and the Home Manager, including sleep ins on a rota basis(for which there is an additional nightly payment)
- To work under the guidance of the Shift Leaders, Assistant Home Manager and Home Manager on a day to day basis
- Become familiar with all policies and procedures, including Health and Safety, Student Complaints procedures, First Aid and Safeguarding.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:
To hold a Level 2 in Health & Social Care

(Or willingness to complete this qualification when starting the role)

**Skills and Expertise**
Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills

Caring, understanding and nurturing individual

An individual keen to develop into the role and attend training

**Experience and Knowledge**
Have the ability to communicate clearly with people with support needs

Experience of supporting a team

Experience with planning leisure activities

General knowledge of CQC’s Key Lines of Enquiry

Understanding of confidentiality and data protection

Experience of working within a CQC registered care setting

To have a flexible approach to the job role

Experience of maintaining clear and accurate records

Understanding of the Mental Capacity act

**How to apply**:
Please upload a CV/Resume* with details of your full employment history (since leaving school, including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and person specification requirements. Your CV/Resume* will be re-produced in a standard format by the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.

**About Queen Alexandra College**:
Queen Alexandra College (QAC) is a national residential College and registered charity that supports a diverse range of student/client abilities and needs.

Our College provides education, training, routes to independent living and employment through an innovative, holistic approach to learning and support.

QAC offers a vibrant, varied and fun educational experience for both residential and day students. Our curriculum aims to maximise adult life, independence and work opportunities for all students. Class sizes are small and support levels high.

All students, clients and staff are supported within safe and well-resourced environments. We have educational and learning sites based in Birmingham, one of Europe’s most welcoming and vibrant cities, with a rich and diverse culture. Our main site is based in Harborne, a pleasant leafy Birmingham suburb, on a friendly and green 8-acre campus with excellent facilities and resources.

As QAC has grown, we now have new educational and learning sites - Pinewood Cam

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