Bank Support Worker

**About The Role**

**Location**:Ipswich, IP10
**Days & Hours**:Bank hours,**Various shifts available - evenings, weekends and school holidays.
**Pay**:Weekdays: £15.50 Weekends: £16.50
**Driver required?**Essential (will need own car to get to work)
**Driving Clients Car?**Yes, Luke's mobility vehicle
**Using Own Vehicle for work purposes?**Yes, On duty and to attend trainings
**Essential Experience**:Understanding of non-verbal communication i.e. Makaton and talk pad
**Desirable**:Experience working with children
**Pets**: 4 dogs
**Accommodation (while on duty)**:Family home

**With regret, our client's do not offer sponsorship.**

We are seeking patient, caring and alert Support Workers for Luke, born in 2012. Luke is a very sociable young boy with a lovely smile, and really loves swimming, walking, physical play, going on leisure outings. Being around familiar people and his peers along with his iPad is really important to him. He lives at home with his mother with other family members living close by. He enjoys going out and about and can take you straight to his favourite sausage rolls in the local supermarket
- Luke suffered a severe brain injury at birth, he is a fully mobile, but non-verbal and a very active young boy and requires full support for all his personal care needs and is doubly incontinent. Due to Luke's learning disability he has very limited awareness of danger and requires 24/7 supervision.

Your role will be to support Luke with personal care and accessing meaningful activities in and out of the home, sometimes with his mother as second support. As Luke loves to swim you will need to be water confident. You will learn how to communicate with Luke using non-verbal communication and his talk pad. Luke needs close supervision at all times to ensure his safety and you will need to understand strategies that help keep him focussed and offer a distraction to stay calm. Using positive language, repeating instructions and allowing him time to complete tasks if he feels they are important to him, playing 'hide and seek' and making him laugh.

This is an excellent opportunity for Bank Support Workers to develop existing skills and support this very special young boy. A truly rewarding role for someone who is able to communicate effectively and an ability to work with patience, tact, understanding, warmth and compassion.

**Pay and Benefits**:

- Weekdays: £15.50 Weekends: £16.50
- 5.6 weeks annual leave pro rata
- Free DBS check.

**In order to promote continuity of our high care standards, you will be offered**:

- Induction,
- Relevant training opportunities (including The Care Certificate),
- Regular clinical supervision/review meetings,
- On-going support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department

**Safeguarding**
ILS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our Clients within the activities we undertake, and ILS expects all our Clients’ employees and workers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or workers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This position will require:

- Proof of eligibility to work in the UK;
- Satisfactory references, including your last employer;
- An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate. A conviction will not necessarily prevent you from being employed.

**About You**

**Are you calm, proactive and enthusiastic?**
**Do you share our values?**
- Client Focussed - Can you demonstrate commitment and passion for meeting our clients needs?
- Integrity - Can you demonstrate empathy and understanding in an appropriate and professional manner?
- Supportive - Can develop productive and professional relationships with others.
- Positive - You would be expected to create and inclusive environment and respect diversity.
- Quality Focussed - Always maintaining professionalism.
- Must be able to work with specialist equipment (training will be provided). A Handling Management Plan is available and is designed to reduce the risk of handling injuries, but you may be required to bend, kneel, squat, push or pull.
- Experience with working with non-verbal children with a birth head injury
- Confident and comfortable working in Luke’s own home and sensitive to the needs and wishes of him and his family
- Can demonstrate commitment and passion for meeting Luke's needs
- Can demonstrate empathy and understanding in an appropriate and professional manner
- A team player who understands the importance of feedback to qualified members of the team
- Can develop productive and professional relationships with others
- Actively creates an inclusive environment respecting diversity
- Good organisational skills who can adhere to standards and quality requirements
- Friendly, approachable with a proactive and encouraging approach
- Water confident to assist with swimming
- Punctual, patient, reliable and trustworthy
- Can maintain an excellent level of confidentiality
- Good verba