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Senior Support Worker

2 weeks ago

Blackburn, United Kingdom Cedar Health and Wellbeing Full time

**Job description**

**Senior Support Worker Job Description**

**£11.50 per hour plus bonus**

This is a great opportunity for you to join our growing team at Cedar Health and Wellbeing

**What we can offer you?**
- **A Great Training Package** with a career pathway that includes; **2 week face-to-face**, **1 week site induction**, **eLearning**, and **mentorship**.
- **Career Opportunities** **for all** with pathways created to take a support worker to management level
- **Regular Supervision** with the management team, where your thoughts are listened to and action taken
- **Performance Bonus £250** upon satisfactory completion of 6-month probation for full time employment
- **Enhanced Pay Rate for Overtime**
- **28 Days **Annual Leave including bank holidays
- **Private Pension Scheme** - we contribute to your future
- **Blue Light Card** - cost amount reimbursed
- **Regular Shift Patterns**
- **Permanent Full Time Contracts **available

**Main Purpose**

The purpose of Cedar Health and Wellbeing is to provide community-based support to adults with learning disabilities, autism and who may demonstrate behaviours of concern. We hope to achieve this by providing well trained, caring, and competent support staff to help develop their knowledge and independent living skills to enable them to make informed choices.

You'll lead and supervise a team of support workers to ensure they provide high quality care and support through, Person centred support, leading team meetings, completing inductions, and observational supervisions and working in partnership with other professionals to ensure individuals receive the support they need.

**Behaviours & values**:

- The Senior Support Worker will provide first line direct support and lead a small team of support staff.
- You will ensure good practice and values are promoted throughout your coaching and mentoring
- To support individuals through their transition period, be proactive, positive and non-judgemental
- To treat individuals with respect and encourage them to express their individuality.
- You will continuously train and develop your personal skills and knowledge to give you the ability to meet the needs of the individual as well as your staff team.
- Be able to delegate tasks to your team
- Be able to take lead while supporting individuals in times of crisis.
- To ensure good professional practices are established and maintained with relevant parties.

**Job Specification**:

- You will be responsible for preparing and maintaining up to date support plans, implementing and reviewing any changes and ensuring staff teams are aware of changes.
- Facilitate core team meetings, staff responsive and staff observational supervisions.
- Completion of medication accreditations
- Ensure all protocols and risk assessments are up to date and relevant
- Weekly medication audits and returns to be completed and sent to the appropriate pharmacy.
- Ensure rota has no open shifts, these must be covered to ensure delivered hours.
- Manage all activity monies daily, all documentation to be completed and receipts signed
- Ensure all appointments, outings or events are met, and all relevant documentation completed.
- Support the development of person-centred planning, ensuring each individual’s plan is meaningful and achievable
- To ensure the service is kept clean and tidy
- Ensure all daily, weekly and monthly audits have been completed
- Excellent communication and written skills
- To complete all mandatory and role specific training to promote your skills and knowledge
- Ability to prioritise workload
- To familiarise themselves with company policies and procedures
- To ensure best practice is always followed both in service and outside
- To ensure staff are competent and authorised to complete certain tasks

**Additional Duties**:

- Senior Support Worker will be required to participate in the on-call rota
- Promote the organisation in a positive manner
- The above is not exhaustive and other duties may apply

**Health & Safety**:
As an employee of Cedar Health and Wellbeing the post holder has a duty under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, to:

- Take reasonable care of the health & safety of themselves and all other persons who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work.
- Co-operate with their employer to ensure compliance with Health & safety legislation and the Health & Safety policies and Procedures, not intentionally or recklessly interfere with, or misuse, anything provided in the interest of Health, Safety or Welfare, in pursuance of any of the relevant stator provisions.

**Data Protection**:
The post holder must at all times respect the confidentiality of information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. This includes, if required to do so, obtain, process and /or use information held on a computer in a fair and lawful way, to hold data only for the specified registered purposes and to use or disclose data only to authorised