Social Care Assistant

2 days ago

High Wycombe, United Kingdom Buckinghamshire Council Full time

Job summary

We have fantastic opportunities for individuals to join us as Social Care Assistants working within our Adults Day Services. We are looking for a dedicated individuals who can provide high quality direct care and support to residents within our day centres, focusing on personal wellbeing outcomes and individual wishes, to achieve strength-based support. In addition to the advertised salary, you will receive a Golden Hello one-off lump-sum payment of £1000 upon successful completion of your probationary period.

We have currently have two 12 month secondment/fixed term contract opportunities:

Full time 37 hours position at Burnham Short Breaks Service. Monday to Friday with 30 minutes for lunch Part time 22 hours position at Spring Valley High Wycombe Short Breaks Service. Monday to Thursday 9:00-3:00pm. Please note the salary advertised will be pro-rata for part time.

If you'd like to hear from some of our current adult social care employees, take a look at our Bucks Careers pagesFacebook,LinkedIn,Twitter,Instagram

Main duties of the job

As a Social Care Assistant working within our day centre, you will be supporting adults with learning disabilities and elderly clients to provide them with personal care, feeding, employment support, domestic skills and activities such as arts and crafts, music and drama, and much more

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

Providing personal care for individuals, this may include but is not limited to dressing, toileting, washing and general housekeeping. 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 individuals 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.

Fixed

As a fixed worker, youll spend most of your time in the same location, which will likely be a fixed office or location where your role is performed. Typically, youll 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 us

Despite the challenges that Adult Social Care has faced within the last 12 months, our approach in Buckinghamshire has not been to take shelter and wait for the storm to pass. Instead, we have chosen totransform and restructure Adult Social Care so we can respond to a crisis as well as build for the future.

We have day centres across Burnham, Aylesbury, Chesham, Beaconsfield and Buckingham with each centre offering short break day services to vulnerable adults and supporting them to live independent, full lives.

Our day centres offer a number of services, some being more specialised, but the core function of all of our centres is to provide support and care to clients and their families so they can learn new skills, meet new people and develop their independence through a variety of activities.

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

Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Naturally, you will be a great people person, able to deliver practical care and support to an agreed plan using your own initiative to problem solve and utilising remote management oversight, where required.

This may involve undertaking a specialist role that requires specific training ( autism services) or undertaking and administering personal care and/or medication.

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.

Please see the job summary attached for full details.

Other information

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

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

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

All unspent convictions and conditional cautions All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected ( that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).

For further information on filtering please refer toNacro guidanceand theguidance published by the Ministry of Justice(see, in particular, the section titled Exceptions Order).

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Awareness of the services provided by the range of partners and communities. Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of vulnerable adults. Be able to work effectively within a professional environment. Please see the job summary attached for full details.

Desirable

Experience of working with Adults in a social care setting or undertaking voluntary work with adults. Experience of working with a variety of Microsoft Office systems. Please see the job summary attached for full details.

Qualifications

Essential

2 or more GCSEs at grades 3 to 1 (D to G), or equivalent

Desirable

Please see the job summary attached for full details

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