Coaching Support Worker

We currently have an exciting opportunity for additional staff to join us in supporting the delivery of new Independent Living services.

**Job title**: Coach4Independence, Sleep Over Permanent

**Learning Disabilities, Neurodiversity (Autistic Spectrum), Epilepsy experience**

**Location**: This position will be based at 1 location, in Penrith.

**Salary**: £22,022 per annum, depending on skills, qualifications and experience + plenty of benefits (Listed below)
- 2002 annual hours

**Hours**: average of 38.5 hours per week
- Week 1 Monday / Wednesday / Friday
- Week 2 Sunday / Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday
- 10pm - 9am (sleep hours from 11pm - 7am)

**About Us**

We are a local charity, providing support services throughout the Eden Valley, from our office & opportunities centre based in Penrith. Our services and businesses provide bespoke support for children, young people and adults, who have additional learningneeds, learning disabilities and / or neurodiversity (autistic spectrum).

We believe in supporting individuals to access and integrate within their local community and enable people to access the wider community, by assisting individuals with social skills and providing the opportunity to live and experience an ordinary life,as independently as possible.

Skilled and experienced staff, who enable people to meet their individual needs, are at the forefront of our services. We can be a busy environment with various services being available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Through a friendly, supportive and collaborativeapproach, we excel in our commitments whilst still striving to maintain a healthy work / life balance.

**Our services include**:

- Supported Independent Living - in peoples own homes
- Independent living skill building / enhancement
- Community based and day centre-based opportunities - skill building, work placements, supported employment, volunteering, learning, training and development.
- Personal individualised support in a person’s home or community
- Work placement and employment support in local businesses
- Real paid work opportunities in our developing trading arms
- Training with certification
- Career progression pathway
- Social and recreational support and opportunities
- Life, friendship, relationship and personal development
- Clubs, short breaks, activities and holiday

**Job description**:
This is a newly created position that will cover sleep over duties at 1 property where two young men live. A sleep over duty begins at 11pm and ends at 7am. Sleep over cover is required as 1 person may have night seizures and may require support for a shorttime. You will be available to assist if required, but will have your own room and bed to sleep over.

**Responsibilities will include**:

- To maintain health and wellbeing
- Contribute to team meetings and service user reviews and attend any meetings that are essential to maintain the safe running of the service.
- Ensure that a person’s rights, dignity, choice and privacy are respected at all times.

Recording of information and record keeping is an important part of the role, using systems and processes in place.
- Complete required forms and documentation in relation to the support of the person
- Comply with all policies and procedures, terms and conditions detailed in the company handbook and your contract of employment.

**Person Specification**:

- Understanding of learning disability and neurodiversity
- Experience and knowledge of epilepsy
- Understanding of people’s basic rights
- Aware of regulations and legislation such as CQC and The Care Act
- Awareness of Safeguarding and the importance of protection
- Understanding of importance confidentiality
- Ability to effectively communicate
- Ability to actively listen
- A qualification in Health & Social Care
- Certificated training
- Transferable skills

**Benefits / why work with us?**
- Enrolment into an employer paid healthcare scheme that allows you to claim money towards the cost of dental, optical and other medical expenses and additional benefits for your wellbeing. With the option to add your partner and free children’s cover.
- Training for your role.
- Your Birthday off every year
- Enrolment into our workplace pension scheme into which we contribute 3% of your salary.

**Next Steps**

We look forward to hearing from you