Support Worker

6 months ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Ashdown Care Full time

**Support worker - Full Time contracted hours - Days £12.02 per hour**

Ashdown care are an experienced and successful family run company in Gateshead. We are scheduling interviews for new staff members to join our caring, fun, and happy staff team.

You will be supporting a service user in an Independent supported living environment that has been newly refurbished. Technology has been set up around the home to reduce paperwork, which will enable you to engage in meaningful activities.

Within this role, you will be responsible for promoting independence, helping to update the service users support plan to improve the quality of the support users life, supporting the service user to access facilities within the community and assisting with his personal development. Due to the service users behavioural needs it’s important to be able to follow his Positive Behaviour Support Plan.

**Duties include**:

- Helping to maintain support plans to massively improve the quality of people’s lives.
- Supporting the service user with 2-1 support, to meet his needs.
- Teaching the service user new skills to help him become more independent. Supporting him to attend college placements.
- Helping the service user keep in touch with everyone that is important to him, including families and friends.
- Supporting the service user to live independently in his own home. This will include supporting with cooking, household jobs.
- Working on a ROTA, including weekends, evenings, bank holidays, sleep ins.

**The service user**:
Is an energetic young man that likes to spend time outdoors and in the community.
- Likes making simple food such as sandwiches, crumpets, scrambled egg in the microwave.
- The Service user also loves cars and things to do with driving / vehicles - e.g. the Highway Code.
- The Service user likes technology, repetitive cartoons, Lego, freehand drawing, playing with dough
- The Service user has ASD, ADHD, Learning Disability, Social and Communication Disorder and Complex Social and Language Disorder. He can become anxious with change.

**Requirements**:

- An enhanced DBS check.
- Ashdown employees are required to promote the welfare and safeguarding of all children and vulnerable adults at all times.
- Positive, enthusiastic with a great attitude.
- Outgoing and passionate about improving his quality of life.
- Knowledge of Positive Behaviour Support is essential.
- Proactive and motivated to look for new activities and experiences.
- Someone who is open to learning new skills.

**Company perks**:

- Paid mandatory and ongoing career development training.
- Genuine progression opportunities.
- Chances to spin our WOW-Wheel
- Flexibility around family commitments.
- Refer-a-friend bonus
- Loyalty bonuses.

Please call Lucy on 0330 335 8997 for more information.

**Job Type**: Permanent

Pay: £12.02 per hour

Physical setting:

- Residential home

Shift:

- Day shift

**Experience**:

- Support Work: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person


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