Senior Support Worker

2 days ago

Sidcup, United Kingdom Chiltern Support and Housing Full time

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Support Worker to join our growing company in Sidcup on a full/part time basis.

Chiltern Support & Housing are a ground breaking specialist health and social care provider supporting individuals with a person centred approach to live and access the community around them.

Our Senior Support Worker will ideally have experience working with adults with physical and learning difficulties as well as Autism and Challenging behaviour.

You must be determined, empathetic and committed to making a difference to our clients’ lives, and demonstrate your leadership qualities to a team of Support Workers.

**_
Purpose of the role:_**
- Ensure the smooth running of the working day by assisting service users with activities of daily living as per their assessments and care plans completed by the Manager. Completing administrative tasks using the client database to enable effective and efficient client support.
- Assist with the maintenance of a safe supporting environment including the preparing and cleaning of rooms and equipment with particular reference to infection control and safe working environment for service users, their families, staff and other visitors in line with the Company’s Health and Safety and Infection Control Policy.
- Ensure sensitive and appropriate care and support is delivered to meet individual needs, respecting personal dignity and beliefs.
- To work in partnership with others to provide a range of innovative and individualised support packages, this is achieved through Person Centred Planning in which we aim to promote optimum health, foster choice, independence, self-awareness, self-confidence and as far as possible we will support the individual to access stimulating activities in real life settings to learn real life skills and to be treated as equal to others.
- In addition to having a _supervisory _responsibility Senior Support Workers are directly responsible for supporting, developing and enabling the individual in pursuance of the above goals.
- Lead in a _supervisory_ capacity to take control and responsibility in the absence of the Team Leader.

**_ In order to fulfil this role, you will need to possess the following competencies and abilities:_**
- Ability to work with clients with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
- Calm and reflective in a crisis
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Model appropriate skills to others
- Good inter-personal skills to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and with other agencies, carers, family
- Work occasionally in isolation and in stressful situations
- Ability to adapt to changing situations and environments
- Demonstrate a range of domestic, leisure, recreational and social skills
- Ability to motivate clients and other carers
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to give and receive constructive advice
- Ability to undertake all identified appropriate procedures in the care plan

**_ What Benefits you’ll receive:_**
- Paid Annual Leave
- Employee Assistant Programme
Reward and Recognition Scheme
- Pension Scheme
Training (pre-employment and ongoing)

This is a 24/7 service. Shifts are allocated Monday to Sunday.

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