Job Title: Support Worker
Location: Kempston, Bedford
Salary: £10.42 per hour
Job Type: Full Time. 37.5 hours
Mentaur is an award-winning specialist care provider, to adults with learning disabilities, autism, and challenging behaviour. They are always striving to push back the boundaries of possibility in the lives of people they support. Their staff teams are at the very heart of their identity.
Do you want to work for a multi award winning company? Are you looking for the next step in your career? Are you looking for flexibility, or maybe financial stability? Or want a challenging, varied and rewarding career? Whatever you are looking for is right here!
Fact: 85% of the company’s Senior Team has been promoted internally!!
Job Role:
To contribute to the delivery of care in accordance with the Health & Social Care Act 2008 and the policies and procedures of Mentaur Ltd. To contribute to the staff team to ensure that high standards of care practice are maintained.
What’s on offer:
- Competitive overtime rates
- Paid recommend a friend scheme
- 6 weeks annual leave
- Pension Scheme
- Childcare Voucher Scheme
- Training to enhance your career
Responsible for:
- Participating in designing, developing and maintaining a secure, warm and dignified home life.
- Contributing to the provision of care & support to service users according to their individual care plans.
- Contributing to developing and maintaining the individual skills of service users as per their plans to include learning and skills activities.
- Reporting all notifiable incidents occurring in the home to the shift leader, providing written reports as requested.
- Supporting and understanding each individual Service User’s needs
- To report back any areas of risk, not previously identified, to manager
- To promote equal opportunities and respect diversity, different culture and values
- To empathise and actively listen in a sensitive manner accessing appropriate additional support where necessary
- To build positive, professional relationships with service users and other members of support team.
- To ensure that up to date records are maintained and to provide written reports as required by Mentaur Ltd.
- Advising and supporting individual service users in the safekeeping of their money and valuables, recording all financial transactions in accordance with Mentaur Ltd policy and procedural guidelines.
- Enabling and accompanying service users, where required, to access community facilities, annual holidays and health care appointments.
- Assisting in the administration of medication to individual service users following confirmation of medication training.
- Participating in scheduled team meetings as required.
- To ensure that all in-house financial transactions are conducted and recorded according to Mentaur Ltd policies and procedures.
- To ensure that the day-to-day housekeeping and shopping tasks are carried out thereby ensuring the smooth running of the home.
- To ensure the correct use of business vehicles.
- To assist with the management & maintenance of cleanliness, repairs and decor of the home.
- To ensure the health, welfare and rights of service users are maintained at an appropriate level.
Equal opportunities
It is the aim of the Mentaur Ltd to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, race, colour, religion, marital status or disability. To this end Mentaur Ltd has an equal opportunities policy and it is for each employee to contribute to its success.
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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, Support Worker, Enabler, Care Worker, Support Assistant, Care Helper, Care Assist, Healthcare Assistant, Residential Care Support, Social Care, NVQ2 may also be considered for this role
