Support Worker

7 months ago


London, United Kingdom Akton Recruitment Full time

**Support Worker**
**Camden**
**£16/hr**
**Start date: ASAP**

**DBS required**

**Job Capsule Supplementary Information: Support Worker, Disabilities Accommodation Services**

This supplementary information for the Support Worker
- Disabilities Accommodation Services is for guidance and must be used in conjunction with the Job Capsule for Social Care Job Family at Level 2.

Salary Level: Currently Level 2, Zone 1

**Role Purpose**:

- To support people with Disabilities to take control of their lives and, making use of the local community, to meet planned goals and outcomes.
- To provide high quality support to adults with Disabilities, to include physical and emotional support and personal care.

**Example outcomes or objectives that this role will deliver**:

- Participate in the care planning, monitoring and review process
- Promote equality of opportunity, choice, privacy, dignity, rights and independence
- Support customers to develop and maintain relationships and be attuned to customers' wellbeing needs
- Participate in organising and leading activities in the community and the service
- To follow organisational policies and procedures
- Ensure the safeguarding of vulnerable adults
- Participate positively in the supervision and appraisal process for performance management

**People Management Responsibilities**:
Relationships: The post requires working effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including customers and their relatives and friends, other professionals, colleagues and members of the community, and the ability to communicate with each at a level that is meaningful to them is essential.

**Work Environment**:

- Part of a busy vibrant supported living service, which requires all workers to be flexible to adapt to changing needs and demands of customers
- Working with people who may need hands-on support in all areas of daily living, including people moving, personal care and administration of medication
- Some customers may display behaviours which challenge the service
- Universal precautions required to inhibit spread of infection.
- The service operates across seven days and will require the postholder to be available to work at any time within this; including evenings, weekends and bank holidays, and sleep-in cover.

**Technical Knowledge and Experience**:
**Essential**:

- NVQ Level 2
- Manual handling
- Safe handling and administering of medication
- Food and hygine
- Infection control
- Epilepsy awareness ( exceptions can be made and knowledge can be shared via induction)
- Safe guarding Adults awareness

**Desirable**:

- NVQ 3 or above
- Lone working

Dealing with challenging Behaviours
- Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and other stakeholders
- Ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders, using diverse methods and media
- Ability to plan and support people to access their planned activities, or to devise programmes for people who remain home in the daytime
- Ability to record information and write concise reports
- Ability to undertaking moving of people, following training in safe manual handling

**Knowledge**
- Demonstrable knowledge of Valuing People Now
- Principles of Personalisation and Person-Centred Approaches
- Understanding of the economic position in social care and the drive for efficiency
- Understanding of epilepsy, Autistic Spectrum Conditions and other long term conditions

Experience
- Experience of paid or unpaid work with people with learning disabilities


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