Support Worker
6 months ago
**Support Worker**
**Location**:St Matthews, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex
**Hours of Work**: Full-Time, 37 Hours (per Week)
**Salary**:£11.44 (per hour)
Are you looking for a rewarding role where you can work to help people with learning disabilities feel empowered to live fulfilling lives, as independently as possible?
Aspens could be the perfect work place for you
At Aspens we work across Kent and Sussex; supporting individuals with autistic spectrum conditions, learning disabilities and physical disabilities.
As a Support Worker you will play a big role in supporting people with in their day to day lives activities. Along with your general caring responsibilities this could also include activities such as baking, painting, or learning to play a new instrument as well as other activities out in the local community. This is what makes the role so rewarding, because with each shift you complete you know that you have helped to enrich someone else’s life and enjoyed yourself whilst doing it
Our Shift Pattern at St Matthews often follows this pattern:
Shifts 7-2pm, 2-10pm 7-3pm, 3-10pm
A long day 8-10pm at the weekend or 8-3pm 3-10pm Sleep in 10pm-7am weekdays
Sleep in 10pm-8am weekends
What you can expect from us:
- Fantastic paid training and career progression opportunities (including recognised qualifications in health and social care)
- Paid DBS (we will recover the cost should your employment terminate for any reason, other than redundancy, before passing your probation)
- Flexible work arrangements with opportunities to take on additional bank shifts too
- 30 Days Annual Leave (including Bank Holidays) / Pro rata dependent on hours. Annual leave entitlement increases with length of service
- Nest Pension and Death in Service Benefit (Includes unlimited access to a suite of six services: a 24/7 UK-based GP, Best Doctors, mental health support, a health check, access to nutrition consultations and an online fitness programme [Smart Health])
- Dedicated Employee Assistance Programme and Access to Mental Health First Aiders
- Enhanced family leave pay
- Travel season tickets (interest free loans for those wishing to purchase a travel season ticket)
- Aspens High Street Stores - 20% discount on all items for Aspens’ staff
- Blue Light Card and access to high-street discounts
- Refer a Friend scheme, so you can earn up to £250 for every person you refer to work for Aspens
- Recognition schemes, including ‘Employee of the Month’
About You:
We are looking for friendly, hard-working people with a fun spirit and a good sense of humour to join our team of support staff.
We recognise that good support workers come from all walks of life. Whether you have years of care experience or no experience at all, if you are a caring person, passionate about empowering others and ready to learn new skills we want to speak to you
e would prefer if you have qualifications in working in residential or care sector.
We give you the opportunity to work towards NVQ 3 in Health and Social Care
About the Role:
Due to the variety within our services and the different support needs of the individuals we work with; the role of a Support Worker is one with great diversity and challenges for employees at any stage of their career.
The role of a Support Worker can range from team based or lone working care roles. As a support worker the day-to-day tasks that you will be required to complete can include:
- Supporting service users with administration of medication
- Supporting with personal care needs and nutritional needs
- To support with making and attending medical appointments, ensuring accurate comprehensive records are kept.
- Supporting food shopping and individual’s personal shopping needs
- Supporting with laundry duties and cooking and cleaning
- Supporting with finances and other administrative tasks
- Supporting with moving and handling requirements and using hoists
- Supporting with social activities and accessing community-based services including those required to promote health and wellbeing.
- Offering emotional support to service users and acting as a positive role model enabling the service user to lead a fulfilling positive lifestyle.
- Writing daily notes and completing relevant forms such as accident/incident forms
- Completing daily observation sheets, ensuring a smooth flow of information to facilitate good communication within the staffing team, as well as professionals who require viewing of these.
- Fully implementing policies and procedures of the organisation and that all recording systems are completed accurately on a regular basis. To sign to say that all policies and procedures have been read.
- Working under the supervision of the line manager to enable the implementation of individual service user’s care plans.
- Working under the supervision of a line manager, to prepare individual assessments on service users, liaising with family members (as appropriate), care manag
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