Social Care Assistants

**Salary**

£24,359 - £27,363

**Reference number**

BUC12830

**Contract type**

Fixed Term / Secondment

**Working hours**

Full Time

**Level of DBS check required**

Enhanced

**Date posted**

2 Feb 2025, 11 p.m.

**Application deadline**

2 Mar 2025

**Overview**:
**Are you passionate about supporting people’s independence and promoting wellbeing?**Are you** helpful, patient and caring by nature**? If so,** then we want to hear from you**

**We have a truly fantastic opportunity for three enthusiastic Social Care Assistants to join our Seeleys Overnight Short Breaks Centre based in Beaconsfield.**

Seeleys House Short Breaks Centre is a residential care home which offers a respite care service for people with a learning disability and or physical disability**.**Seeleys House Short Breaks Centre was awarded a rating of ‘Good’ at the last inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are looking for dedicated individuals who can provide high quality direct care and support to residents within our day centre, focusing on personal wellbeing outcomes and individual wishes, to achieve strength-based support.

**Salary**:£24,359 - £27,363 pro rata. In addition, you’ll receive a**‘Golden Hello’ one off lump-sum payment of £1000 paid on successful completion of your probationary period (payment will be pro rata for part time hours)

**Contract Type**: Fixed Term Contract

**About us**:
Our vision is to create services that provide excellent standards of care to meet the needs of adults at risk, utilising all available resources. We want to ensure that all clients are provided with appropriate emotional, social and physical support, and their strengths and interests are developed. We want to hear from you if you are passionate about making positive changes to our communities and helping people get the best out of life.

**Here's what Stephanie had to say**_'Every single day that I go to work I make a positive difference in someone’s life. My work has true meaning, and even if I've had a challenging day, I know that I've made a positive contribution'_._

If you'd like to hear from some of our current social care employees, take a look at our careers social media pages Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram

**About the role**:
No two days will be the same as you meet a variety of people and support their individual needs. Some of the work you will carry out will include:

- Providing people with information and advice in relation to care and support and assistance in accessing care and support through various means.
- Ensuring an agreed plan meets individual’s care and support outcomes needs and to empower the individual to access early intervention and preventative services.
- Informing senior colleagues and adhere to safeguarding procedure of any concerns which arise in relation to the safety of vulnerable adults.
- Working in partnership with individuals, carers, service providers, voluntary sector and other professionals.
- Providing personal care for individuals, this may include but is not limited to dressing, toileting, washing and general housekeeping.
- Working as part a CQC Registered service in the community, maintaining a high degree of autonomy and utilising own initiative in delivering compliant care and support independently.

Fixed

As a ‘fixed’ worker, you’ll spend most of your time in the same location, which will likely be a fixed office or location where your role is performed. Typically, you’ll be based in the same location as the rest of your team, because you provide a particular service from that fixed location or need access to information there.

**About you**:
By joining us, you will be part of something bigger. You will meet a variety of people, supporting their individual needs to make a real difference every single day. Plus, as an employee of Buckinghamshire Council, we support you, your career development and your progression.

Naturally, you will be a great people person, able to deliver practical care and support to an agreed plan, within the community or as part of a CQC regulated function, using own initiative to problem solve utilising remote management oversight, where required.

On occasion you may be required to work at our other day centres so the ability to be flexible along with being able to travel is an essential requirement.

**Other information**:
**Buckinghamshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.**

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

- All unspent cautions and convictions cautions
- All adult cautions and spent convictions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance or Minis