Support Worker

7 months ago


Durham, United Kingdom NFP People Limited Full time

**Support Worker**

We are looking for caring, dedicated & reliable individuals to join an expanding team of Support Workers We have vacancies across County Durham.

**Position**: Support Worker

**Location**: County Durham

**Hours**: Part-time and Full-time positions available

**Salary**: £11.65 per hour

**Contract**: Permanent

**About the role**:
As a Support Worker, you will be supporting service users with medication, personal care, meal prep and light domestic duties. You can be sure no two days are the same You'll be enhancing the lives of people the organisation supports within their own homes and helping them maintain as much independence as possible. You will undertake care/support work with the sensitivity required to provide services in a way which will preserve the dignity, privacy, choice, independence, fulfilment, and rights of Service Users.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- To support service users to lead as independent a life as possible.
- To provide personal care support to service users as detailed in their Care/Support Plan.
- To adhere to the requirements laid out in the needs led Risk Assessment and Care/Support Plans and ensure that the Service User lives as safely as possible in their own homes.
- To prepare meals, ensuring a balanced diet, undertake household and cleaning tasks, social interaction and any other tasks outlined in the Care/Support Plan.
- To dress appropriately for the post in accordance with the Company Dress Code.
- To develop good communication and develop effective working relationships with Service Users, families, representatives and all who use the service.
- Be willing to work within a service user's own home, accepting different environments and varying capabilities of customers.
- To encourage Service Users independence, while ensuring dignity, choice, and respect at all times.

**About you**:
As a Support Worker, you will be able to show a high level of initiative and empathy when working with Service Users. You will also be able to communicate at all levels effectively and be able to recognise changes in Service User’s needs or circumstances.

To succeed in the role of Support Worker, you will have:

- Good comprehension of the English language.
- Ability to recognise poor practice.
- Understanding of the principles of empowerment.
- Ability to recognise and report hazards.
- Ability to show empathy.
- Accurate record keeping.
- Ability to work as a team.
- Ability to work alone.
- Reliability and flexibility.

**About the organisation**:
The organisation is a family run business who have been operating since 2000. Their vision is “Exceptional people Exceptional Care”. This is what they aim to provide to their service users in Durham and Northumberland.

They are committed to delivering flexible, personalised home care of the highest quality across Northumberland & Durham including Elderly Care, Learning Disability Care & Domiciliary Care. They will respect service users’ rights, choice and dignity and promote their independence to ensure they enjoy the best possible quality of life. The organisation will achieve this through commitment, dedication, integrity, and compassion for all service users.

**In return**:
As well as knowing you are making a real difference in your role, you will also receive the following benefits package:

- Staff referral scheme to enhance wages.
- Competitive rates of pay.
- Time and a half pay on bank holidays, double time pay on Christmas day.
- Working close to home.
- Paid training including (induction, shadowing and online).
- Gain your NVQ2 in Health and Social Care.
- Pension Scheme.
- Paid holidays (pro rata).
- Blue Light Card discount on lots of retailers online and in-store.

We very much welcome previous experience working as Home Carer, Care Worker, Health Care Assistant, Support Worker, Nurse, Social Care Worker, Care Assistant, Mental Health Care Worker, Voluntary Worker, Domiciliary Care, Mental Health Support Worker, Visual Impairment, etc.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by Social Care People on behalf of the organisation.


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