Job Title: Support Worker
Location: Harrow
Salary: £10.50 per hour
Job type: Permanent – Full Time
- Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK
- Candidates within Harrow and its surrounding areas preferred
Core Prospects services cover Learning disabilities, Autism, including Asperger’s, Personality Disorder, Mental Health & more. To put our service users firmly in control, we work with them to creatively deliver innovative, flexible and personalised services.
We are looking for Support Workers with a minimum of 1 years’ experience in care to join our talented team!
The Role:
Support:
- Contribute to the development of appropriate, individualized and achievable support plans for our service users.
- Support service users to be involved with planning for future service provision and promote service user’s rights, both within Core Prospects and the wider community.
- Support and enable, where possible, service users to set up and maintain their own tenancy, ensure their domestic environments are kept to a high standard, supporting service users to carry out normal household tasks and in some cases physically carrying out these tasks, whilst enabling service users to be fully involved in all aspects of their lives.
- Supporting service users with personal care as necessary; including, washing, bathing, shaving, dressing and using the toilet.
- Support those service users who have mobility problems and other disabilities, with any relevant aids / adaptions or medical tasks that can be completed by non-nursing staff e.g. support with incontinence aids.
- Identifying leisure activities, vocational and employment opportunities for service users, within the local community, and supporting their involvement in these.
- Supporting service users to maintain their physical, social and emotional wellbeing including (where appropriate) with health care, personal care, medication, diet, nutrition, fitness, understanding of social roles, motivation, promoting independence and community presence, communication, behaviour management and maintenance of social relationships.
- Supporting service users to understand risk and be involved with both risk assessment and management.
Finance & Administration:
- Support service users to budget their finances and to make claims for welfare benefits and liaise with benefits agencies as required.
- Contribute to the management of the petty cash system and maintain accurate financial records at all times.
Liaison & Communication:
- Liaise with and maintain links with outside agencies including external professionals, advocates or family members and other carers including regarding attendance and participation in review and other service user meetings.
- To maintain a high standard of record keeping.
Benefits:
- On Target Earnings.
- Career Progression.
- Opportunity to complete diploma’s in care.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Support Worker, Carer, Health Care Assistant, Home Care Worker, Care Support Worker, Residential Care Worker, Carer, Care Assistant, Healthcare Assistant, Social Carer, Enabler, Care Worker, Support Assistant, Care Helper, Care Assist, Healthcare Assistant, Residential Care Support, Social Care, Care Manager, NVQ2, Care Coordinator, Home Care Coordinator, will also be considered for this role.
