Job Title: Lead Support Worker
Location: Multiple locations available across the North East
Salary: £11.83 per hour
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
The Role:
Assisting the Support Manager to ensure that the people they support get high quality support designed around their own needs and wishes. Assisting the Support Manager with the supervision, monitoring and day-to-day management of all staff.
Contributing to the monitoring and quality assurance of the support provided. Communicating on a day-to-day basis with people they support, their families and others involved in each individual’s care and support.
The Role:
Principal Duties:
- Ensure that the support team are competent and focused, and are able to fulfil the needs of the people they support
- Assist the Support Manager to assess the people they support and agree their needs. Produce support plans as needed after the assessment is completed
- Adhere to and ensure that all the Association’s policies and procedures are being carried out
- Contribute to the induction of new staff, ensuring all standards are met
- Contribute to the development of the team and individuals, carrying out regular supervision and identifying training needs
- To be part of the recruitment process as required by the Support Manager
- Contribute at team meetings
- Provide on call support as part of a rota
- Act up in the absence of the Support Manager
- Support the management of efficient use of physical and financial resources, in accordance with the Association’s policies and procedures
- Contribute to the development, provision and review of Person Centred Support Plans
- Take appropriate steps to protect and safeguard verbal, written and electronically stored information, within the job holder’s control and ensure that such information is available to (only) authorised users on request
- Be responsible for the production (with assistance from Support Manager if required) for the rota ensuring it meets the needs of the people they support
- Produce Payroll information for the staff team on a weekly basis
- Ensure all Health & Safety requirements are met
- Carry out any duties set out by Support Manager to enable the smooth running of the service for the people they support
- Demonstrate and set high standards of personal and professional behaviour and act as a role model for other staff
- Ensure the maintenance of appropriate and positive attitudes and values within the service
- Work with a range of client groups and needs as required i.e. children, adults, and older people
The Candidate:
Essential
- NVQ Level 2 – Promoting Independence (prepared to undertake training)
- Experience of working with people with a learning disability
- Contribute to the development and effectiveness of the team
- Support the efficient use of resources
- Contribute to the development of teams and individuals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Contribute to developing cultures and strategies in which people are respected and valued as individuals
- Contribute to the planning and evaluation of support plans, risk assessments etc
- Ability to use IT. effectively
- Health and safety at work and security in the workplace
- The protection of individuals from abuse
- Good team worker
- Information handling
- Time management
- Good role model to other staff
- Highly motivated
- Flexibility
- Creative thinker
Desirable
- Good demonstrable education standards,
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
- NVQ Team Leading Level 2
- Supervisory or leadership experience
- Knowledge of dementia care, positive behavioural support, positive risk taking and other specialist approaches
- Driver
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Candidates with experience of; Senior Support Worker, Assistant Support manager, Senior Carer, Care Team Supervisor, Senior Care Worker, Support Worker, Carer, Care Support, Care Assistant, Social Worker, LSW, LSA, Support Assistant, Special Needs Support, Mental Health Support, Autism Support will be considered for this role.
