Support Worker

**Job title**:Support Worker

**Location**:Stourbridge Community, Eagle House, St Johns Road, Stourbridge, DY8 1HE

**Purpose**:To provide autonomous assistance to the People We Support to fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion, and control.

**Salary**:£11.45 per hour.

**Hours**:37.5 hours Monday to Sunday.

**_ Do you want to feel a sense of community in your work?_**

**_ Do you want to be part of a great team to provide excellent care for the people we support?_**

We have an opening for you to join us as a Support Worker within the Care and Support Team; if the following appeals, we’d love to hear from you.
- You want to provide true person-centred support: the people we support all have differing needs and wants; you are instrumental in making it happen
- You would love to be part of a community.
- You want to become a real part of someone’s life and be able to support them in all their activities.
- You have a passion for helping others live a fulfilling and interesting life.
- You have a calm and patient personality.

**Who are we looking for?**
- We like people who really care about others and treat everyone with respect and dignity. If you enjoy supporting people by following their protocols and plans to have a fulfilled and happy life, then this is the job for you.
- If you are looking for that ideal role where you can support the individual needs of the people we support, you’ll enjoy taking people out to enjoy the activities they love and help them lead a fulfilling life.
- You’ll have a supportive and encouraging natural approach.
- A sense of humour and positive attitude really helps, we don’t expect our colleagues to be stand-up comedians, but we do enjoy having fun.
- Someone who is interested in working over several different locations providing different support in different services such as community support, residential care and supporting to assist in overseeing day opportunity activities at our social care farm.

**What are the main responsibilities of this role?**
- Working under the direction of the Team Leader, you will plan and provide support and care to foster the wellbeing and development of the people we support in accordance with their person-centred support and care plan, recording and reviewing progress as directed so that the people we support can fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion and control, supporting them to:

- Encourage the people we support to maintain a clean, tidy, and welcoming living environment.
- Support to use appropriate laundry equipment so they can be enabled to do their laundry and clothing.
- Plan, shop and prepare healthy and wholesome meals alongside the people we support considering their health, choices and wishes.
- Encourage the people we support to be healthy by assisting them to arrange and attend medical appointments.
- Enable the people we support to look after their finances by supporting them individually to budget, monitor their finances and access benefits.
- Support and encourage tenants to maintain an active and supportive social life considering individual choices and wishes.
- Working under the direction of the Team Leader, provide personal care where required and appropriate as a part of their support and care plan (e.g., bathing, hair washing etc) and where the appropriate registration is in place.
- Administering and recording of medication, order/check medications.
- Meal preparation: planning a menu based on their individual preferences and diet choice, making a shopping list, preparing the food, cooking the food, safe handling, and storage of the food.
- Related paperwork includes support plans, daily updates, person profiles, risk assessments, incident reporting, behaviour reports and notes/updates on health appointments.
- Carry out any other tasks as directed by the Team Leader to develop and maintain the high quality of service required.
- Work within the community’s policies and procedures and code of conduct, actively promoting the equality and diversity and the human rights of tenants to realise independence, choice, inclusion, and control.
- Undertake training and continuous professional development in accordance with The Care Quality Commission, local authority requirements, the needs of the service and the people we support.
- Work in close partnership with family members and other professionals involved in the individual’s life.
- Work within all three of our locations providing support in different services such as community support, residential care and supporting to assist in overseeing day opportunity activities at our social care farm.

**Role requirements**:

- You will preferably have experience of supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, and distressed behaviours/emotions. However, this is not essential as training will be given.
- You’ll have a driving license (no more than three points).
- You’ll have a general education, good numer