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Job Title: Support Worker

Location: Blackpool, FY1

Salary: £11.90 - £12.00 per hour

We are recruiting on behalf of Creative Support for Support Worker jobs in Blackpool. Creative Support is a not-for-profit organisation promoting the independence, inclusion and wellbeing of people with care and support needs. They do this by working with the people they support, their families and partner agencies to deliver innovative, high-quality services to meet individual needs and aspirations.

The Role:

To provide quality care and support service users with a range of support needs including learning disabilities, autism and epilepsy. To enable them to enjoy a fulfilling and valued life, to participate in the community and to develop their abilities as fully as possible.

 

Roles and Responsibilities

  • To develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships with service users.
  • To promote the self-esteem, happiness and emotional health of service users.
  • To respect the client’s right to privacy and to ensure that their dignity is maintained at all times.
  • To encourage and support service users in expressing their needs, views and concerns.
  • To enable service users to make choices and decisions and to participate as fully as possible in planning and decision-making processes, in line with current legislation such as the care act.
  • To respect and promote the rights and entitlements of people with learning disabilities, and to enable them to participate as fully as possible in their communities.
  • To be responsive to the individual needs of service users within the framework of their Person Centred Plans and to respond flexibly to changing needs.
  • To enable service users to become as independent as possible and to grow in confidence, competence and personal effectiveness in the following areas:
  1. Social skills/relationships
  2. Personal care & hygiene
  3. Daily living skills
  4. Using community resources and facilities
  5. Social, leisure and work activities
  6. Self organisation and coping abilities
  7. Personal safety
  • To understand the critical importance of behaviour management guidelines as defined by a multi-disciplinary team and to follow and facilitate close adherence to these guidelines.
  • To lead and be part of a core team offering cohesive and consistent practise at all times.
  • To work closely and in consultation with a multi-disciplinary clinical team in the development of the support model and staffing structure including incident analysis, risk assessment, understanding and facilitating behavioural guideline and staff selection and training.

Essential Experience

  • Ability to demonstrate a warm, person centred and affirmative approach to people with learning disabilities and other needs.
  • Good verbal communication skills and ability to listen sensitively to others
  • Ability to engage with service users, to develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships
  • Ability to demonstrate basic insight and understanding into the needs of people with mental health issues, learning disabilities and personality disorder
  • Written communication skills, sufficient to contribute to a record keeping system
  • Ability to work constructively and co-operatively as part of a team
  • Ability to work safely and responsibly without direct supervision in service user’s own homes
  • Ability to demonstrate initiative, self-motivation and resourcefulness
  • Ability to liaise in a professional manner with other agencies and to work in a positive way with the families and friends of service users
  • Understanding of the person centred aims and principles of Creative Support and ability to put these into practice
  • Ability to demonstrate respect for difference and diversity
  • Ability to provide emotional and practical support to service users
  • A non-judgmental, accepting approach to working with people who may be challenging and the ability to cope in a mature way with conflict, distress and challenging behaviours
  • Ability to work in a calm, patient and tolerant manner at a pace appropriate to the needs of the individual
  • Ability to enable people to enjoy developmental opportunities without being exposed to unacceptable risks
  • Ability to support service users with their physical health needs, this may include pushing wheelchairs and using hoists of which a degree of physical fitness will be required
  • Experience of providing care, support or other services to people with support needs
  • Experience of supporting people with mental health issues, learning disabilities and physical/ sensory disabilities
  • Life experience and confidence in relating to people from a wide variety of backgrounds
  • Possession of NVQ or other relevant social care qualification
  • Warm, respectful and positive approach when working with service users
  • Willingness to work flexible hours according to needs of agency and service users
  • Willingness to attend training courses and events
  • Willing to accept feedback and guidance and to be accountable to colleagues and managers
  • To have a clean, valid driving licence and access to a car

Benefits

  • A one-off bonus of £100 upon successful completion of the 4-month probationary period.
  • Competitive pay and a pension with company contribution and 25 days annual leave plus 8 statutory bank holidays
  • Company paid enhanced DBS for all staff
  • Free employee support programme
  • All our staff are supported 24/7 by our out-of-hours teams
  • Support to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and Social Care Diploma

Hours of Work:

Full or part time hours, full time hours are 37.5 per week. To be worked flexibly on a rota which will include evenings, weekends and public holidays according to the needs of the service. Part time hours to be agreed subject to a minimum of 15 hours per week.

Job Location: Blackpool, FY1

Salary: £11.90 – £12.00 per hour

Opening Date: Thu Oct 31 2024