Home Care Support Worker Learning Disability

4 weeks ago

Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom Brighton & Hove City Council Full time

**Home Care Support Worker Learning Disability (Children and Young People) **:Posted on 23 October 2023 Apply
- Directorate BHCC: Families Children & Learning
- Salary £24,054 - £24496 full time without relevant qualification (£12.47 - £12.70 per hour) £24948 - £26,845 with relevant qualification (£12.93 -£13.91) plus enhancements for evenings, weekends and bank holidays
- Contract Permanent

**Location**:
55 Drove Road, Hove

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**Job Summary**:
- Job reference- orbis/TP/490/37276-
- Positions available- 3-
- Working hours- 37-
- Closing date- 10 December 2023-
- Job category- Care - Children and Young People-
- Organisation- Brighton & Hove City Council**Job introduction**:
**Home Care Support Worker**

Brighton & Hove is a great place to live, learn, work and visit. Our diverse and vibrant community is passionate about the city and there’s a shared commitment to celebrating and promoting all that makes Brighton & Hove so unique.

We are committed to delivering an outstanding service and to making Health and Disability Services within our Families, Children and Learning Directorate the right choice for you to work.

If you are looking to work in a supportive and forward-thinking organisation, where every day is rewarding and provides a fresh challenge, and you have a background of working with children with learning disabilities, then we would love to hear from you.

**About the role**:
**About us**

At Drove Road we provide a mixture of short breaks and full-time placements for young people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour between the ages of 8 and 18. Many of our young people have Autism with associated complex needs. Our dedicated team of staff works hard to create a positive, safe, stimulating and homely environment in which each young person’s specific needs are met and they are supported to develop and learn new skills while having fun. Particular emphasis is given to those skills that promote independence.

We value each of our young people, encourage them, celebrate their achievements and treat them with dignity and respect. We provide lots of opportunities for our young people to have leisure, sporting, learning and social activities, as well as developing their skills to participate fully in daily life. Every team member plays a vital part in helping our young people to thrive, and as a highly successful team we support each other to deliver our service with fairness and inclusivity.

**About you**

You will need to:

- Have experience of looking after children with learning disabilities, either in a social care or educational setting
- Have the ability to be proactive, to use your initiative and think quickly in challenging situations
- Demonstrate reflective practise on how you support our young people and how you can continue to improve
- Demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills for interaction with a wide variety of stakeholders, including families, social workers and medical professionals
- Demonstrate good organisational and numerical skills for the administration of medication
- Have the ability to meet the physical, emotional and mental demands of the job e.g. be able to use restrictive interventions to restrain the young people in line with their behaviour support plans
- Support our young people with intimate personal care when required
- Use a range of communication tools to help our young people express themselves
- Undertake a range of domestic tasks including cleaning, shopping, providing freshly prepared meals
- Support your colleagues and yourself to stay safe during times of challenging behaviour
- Have a clear Enhanced DBS Certificate

If you do not already have a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent qualification) we will fund and support you to achieve this within 2 years. You will need to be able to work a 4-week rolling rota as follows:

- Early shifts: 7.00am to 2.30pm (until 11.00am in term time)
- Late shifts: 2.00pm to 9.30pm or 10.00pm
- Work two weekends per month
- Sleep-in duty once per month

For more information about the organisation and the specific tasks required, please download the job description / person specification.

**Working for us**

We can offer you a competitive salary; salary enhancements for weekend, bank holiday, nights and sleep-in’s; job-specific training and development; opportunities for career progression; regular supervision and team meetings; a generous annual leave allowance with the opportunity to buy extra days; staff discounts; and admittance into the Local Government Pension Scheme.

**Additional information**:
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is part-time or term-time only.

**Company information**:
As part of Brighton & Hove City Council's ongoing commitment to redeployment, please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any stage of the recruitment process, without prior notice if a suitable redeployee (internal employee at

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