Autism Support Worker

Autism Support Worker

**Pay**: Days - £12.00 / Nights - £13.00 / Bank Hols - £17.00

**Refer a Friend Scheme - £250 awarded (T&C's apply)**

**Company description**

We are a specialist care provider that supports individuals who have a learning disability and are on the autism spectrum. We provide a flexible, person-centred approach with a focus on supporting those who display significant behaviours of concern.

We offer a broad spectrum of flexible personalised care carried out by our multi-disciplinary team. Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) Practitioners and Learning disability nurses offer a wide range of skills and experience in specialised assessments, planning and delivering the right support.

Here at LDA Care we don’t anticipate ‘smooth sailing’ with the people we are serving. The individuals we support may have experienced abuse, rejection and trauma. Some individuals may exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress, have experienced institutionalisation, and may have missed out on everyday processes of socialisation. Each has inherent and acquired ‘disabilities', however, experience tells us with the right skilled relationship-based support and the opportunity to experience a rich and meaningful life, these individuals can have and be so much more.

LDA Care are looking for people who will demonstrate the competence (or enthusiasm to acquire the competence) to provide excellent personalised social, and sometimes clinical level behavioural, support to people with learning disabilities and autism in their own homes.

This is the part where you come in, come and join us delivering **holistic **care, achieving great **outcomes **and enabling **meaningful environments**

**H**olistic

**O**utcomes

**M**eaningful

**E**nvironments

**Role Description**

We currently have a great opportunity for dedicated Autism Support Workers to work with an individual who has a learning disability, autism and mental health support needs. The individual will be living on their own home so we are looking for Autism Support Workers who can provide 360 wrap around support that covers all aspects of their life. The individual will be living on her own so we are looking for Support Workers who can provide **24-hour** support throughout service users X’s day.

**Person Specification
- Qualities which are important to the individual X**
- **The Dream Team**_
- You are selected to ‘match’ me
- You are recruited specifically to work with me
- Understanding that you are part of my dedicated team with responsibilities for directing my support
- Provide support to be innovative and creative
- Knowing detailed guidance about how to support me when things are not going well for me in accordance to my support plan
- Being directly involved in keeping the support plan up to date
- **What is the team’s job?**_
- To make sure I am not being exploited and pre-empting possible risky situations
- Helping me budget and making sure I have routine to my day including regular meals
- Helping me shop, prepare and cook meals
- Giving me the opportunity to talk things through
- Helping me make positive relationships in my locality
- Helping me find a job
- Helping me spend quality time with my family
- **Team Person Specification**_

The people that know me well and I thought about the ‘type’ of person; their skills, character and approach to life that would best help me get the most out of life. Matching people to the me is more likely to enable positive relationships to form as we are more likely to get on, enjoy spending time together and share interests. It also reduces team members leaving because it was not the job they expected. In which I wish to have a stable team.

The list below whilst not a checklist every person has to satisfy, will serve as a person specification for me.
- **You should be**:_
- Men or mature Women
- Around my age 30-40
- Positive
- Patience
- Creative
- Confident
- Likes to keep busy
- Night owls
- Organised
- Reliable
- Able to think on the spot
- Leaders
- Practical
- Good negotiators
- Energetic and fit
- Firm
- Straight talking
- Mature outlook
- Clear communicators
- Good role models
- Animal lovers
- Able to plan ahead
- Willing to try new things out of their comfort zones
- Happy to go on fair rides, climbing and risky sports
- Good sense of humour
- Able to see the positive, possible and potential in me
- Values driven, in that you demonstrate equality and inclusion, are respectful, honest and non-judgemental in your behaviour at all times
- Aware and able to articulate your own strengths and needs, as well as those of mine
- Committed to enabling life-long learning for both me and yourselves
- Able to work independently with me as well as work as a member of a team
- Able to negotiate, agree and keep to boundaries with me
- Responsive, intuitive and sensitive to my feelings, emotions and what might make me anxious
- Flexible in your attitude towards your job; willing to change appr