Housing & Domiciliary Worker

3 weeks ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Adferiad Recovery Full time

Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues. We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.

An opportunity has arisen for a passionate and self-motivated individual to join our team as a **Housing & Domiciliary Worker** based in **Cardiff**.

**Hours: 22.5 hour Temporary Contract -** plus additional hours available

**Salary: £10.25 p/h**

**Based at: Cardiff**

**Responsible to**:Service Manager and Registered Manager

**Job Purpose**:
Under the direction of the Service Manager, work as part of team or lone working to support and improve the lives of people with serious mental illness. By contributing to the delivery of Adferiad’s Registered Services in Cardiff, in line with our commitment to principles of empowerment, self-management and recovery and ensuring compliance with internal and external quality standards inspection and regulation (including CIW).

**About this job**:
The provision of Personal Domiciliary Care and Support to People experiencing mental ill-health in Cardiff. These supported living projects are for people to have their own individual tenancies in a block or flats within the vicinity of each other, with each person receiving an individual care and support package. This community based supported living service supports a preventative and reablement agenda and the wellbeing initiatives as identified within Welsh Government policies and the Social Services and Well-being Act (Wales) 2014.

All Adferiad Support Workers will be given the qualifications, experience and competencies commensurate with the levels of care they are expected to provide and in accordance with the Care Inspectorate legislation for Domiciliary Care

The services will operate over 7 days per week and the shift pattern will include lone working and sleep in night shifts.

**Main duties/responsibilities**:

- Provide a variety of person centred, tailored interventions that support individuals with complex needs to find and sustain accommodation and develop their independent living skills.
- Supporting and assisting occupants with the following:

- Feeling secure within their home
- Increasing independent living skills
- Using appliances safely and maintaining reasonable domestic standards
- Personal finance, budgeting, and accessing benefits
- Mental and physical healthcare
- Self-management of medication
- Attending appointments
- Visitors and their access to individual’s property
- Building and maintaining relationships with neighbours, families, friends, professionals
- Developing skills and interests
- Supporting individuals, if required, with:

- All aspects of personal care
- Mobility and transfers - all staff are trained in accordance with the All-Wales Manual Handling Passport.
- Administration of prescribed oral medication - all staff must complete Agored Cymru accredited Medication Training
- Work with service users to achieve their outcomes and the outcomes of the project, employing creative and innovative methods to meet these outcomes and, through their experience and resources, bring added value.
- Support the Service Manager to ensure that individual needs assessments, risk assessments, support plans are all up to date and to offer practical advice and advocacy to service users.
- Liaise with relevant services, organisations and agencies with regards to accessing additional support for service users.
- Practice homeless prevention, tenancy sustainment, Psychologically Informed Approaches, Solution Focus Practice, harm reduction, and co-production.
- To provide a service to individuals, that complements and enhances the service provision of community services, local housing providers and other agencies in the context of the supporting people initiative.
- Working with service users in a timely and task specific manner on a variety of issues in order to impact positively on issues relating to housing, employment, training and education and social isolation.
- Support service users to exercise informed choices about their lives where possible and to enhance their social skills and participate in their community.
- Help service users to identify the areas of support needed and identify the best option of support based on ongoing needs as outlined in their individual Support Plans.
- Supporting the Service Manager in following procedures for conducting 3 monthly and annual reviews - or as and when required due to changes in individuals’ needs or circumstances, ensuring risk assessments and support delivery plans are kept up to date and are relevant.
- Ensure external and internal communication is clear, timely and of high quality.
- Data col

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