Residential Support Worker for Adults

5 days ago


Downpatrick, United Kingdom Total Care Recruitment Full time
Job Overview

Total Care Recruitment is currently seeking a qualified Band 5 Support Worker to join our team on a temporary, full-time basis at an adult residential home in the Downpatrick area.

Job Purpose

The successful candidate will work as part of a team to provide high-quality care and support to adults with complex needs, ensuring their social, emotional, health, educational, spiritual, and physical needs are met.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and reviewing duties in relation to the development of programmes of care for service users and their families.
  • Undertake personal care tasks, including ensuring the social, emotional, health, educational, spiritual, and physical needs of service users are met.
  • Promote and develop social and life skills in partnership with service users.
  • Assist with the care and supervision of the total group of service users who are resident in the Home.
  • Work in partnership with keyworkers to ensure care plans can be developed, tasks completed, and reports prepared for formal and informal settings.
  • Contribute to therapeutic support and plans with families, where required.
  • Undertake waking night and/or sleeping-in duties on a rota basis.
  • Maintain appropriate records in accordance with statutory requirements and policy, and provide reports as required.
Essential Criteria

To be considered for this position, applicants must hold a 3-level qualification and have a minimum of 1 year's experience, equivalent to 16 hours per week, gained in working directly with families and adolescents. Alternatively, applicants may hold A-level passes, 2 years paid experience gained in working directly with families and adolescents, or other relevant qualifications and experience.

Applicants must also have current registration with the Northern Ireland Social Care Council on the relevant part of the register, or be eligible to register with NISCC if they have current registration with one of the Social Care Registration Bodies in England, Scotland, or Wales.

Salary: £18,000 - £22,000 per annum, depending on experience (estimated weekly salary: £350 - £425).



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