Support Worker

Job Description

Post: Support Worker – [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

Reports to: Team Manager and directors.

SALARY

The salary falls within the scale £……………..- £……………….. Part time Pro Rata.

£10.50 - £10.70 (NVQ trained) per hour. Sleep-in allowance £60.

SERVICE AIMS & OBJECTIVES.

• To provide a service that enables people to live their lives the way they would choose, within their own homes.
• To provide that service from the sound basis of the Values of Inclusion.
• To provide that service in line with Company Philosophy, Policy and Procedures.
• To provide that service with Privacy and Dignity.
• To provide that service with an understanding of the person’s need for independence, personal preferences, and choice.
• To provide that service recognizing a person’s rights and with acceptance of a person’s free expression.

PURPOSE OF THE POST

To enable the people being supported to:

• Live a valued life as a citizen in their community by being proactive in enabling the person supported to integrate into community activities
• Exercise their rights, including their right to independence and privacy, by offering choices
• Have their individual needs and preferences recognised and catered for
• Develop and maintain personal and social links and pursue their own interests by physically going out and about in the community as well as within the home
• Be treated with respect

KEY TASKS

Support focus - this applies to each, and every person being supported

• To provide a range of support that may include personal care, promoting and enabling choice in the support provided.
• To work flexibly to meet the needs of the people being supported in ways that encourage and promote their independence within their homes and their communities.
• To support people to live a full life that involves them in everyday things and ensures they participate fully. This will include attending college, shopping, going to work, horse riding, using the bank, using leisure amenities e.g., cinema, swimming, public transport, pubs.

These are examples only as the list is extensive.

• To assist in planned and unplanned support.
• To promote equality of opportunity and fairness of outcome for the people receiving the support.
• To keep accurate records of the support provided.
• To promote effective communication with the main people in people’s lives, and to support people to contribute to relationships with family and friends. This might
• include assisting to organise and host Circle Meetings, supporting people in entertaining family and friends.
• Supporting people if they are in hospital, and with health appointments.
• Supporting people to be on holiday.
• To develop and maintain a personalized pictorial Care Plan together with a year book/journal to reflect the achievements and experiences of each person’s life.

[Employer hidden]’S STANDARDS

• To work with your colleagues and the person you support in a respectful way, acknowledging their skills and gifts and dealing with differences in a safe and non-threatening way.
• To work within [Employer hidden]’s policies and procedures.
• To promote equality and opportunity and fairness of outcome for staff.
• To work as part of a team providing support.
• To manage risk appropriately within the service.
• To behave reliably and act openly and honestly in all aspects of the job.
• To take the lead on shifts and provide on call cover from time to time.

KEY SUCCESFUL OUTCOMES

The people receiving support:

• Are fully involved in identifying their own needs and planning their own care and support, and that this happens in a person-centred way.
• Make real choices in how they lead their lives,
• Live as independently as they choose to and are capable of.
• Have formal and informal support networks in their local community.
• Are valued and respected as individuals and receive support that is valuing and respectful.
• Are neither limited by fear of risk or exposed to unnecessary risk.

ACCOUNTABILITY AND REPORTING

Support workers have a legal duty of care and are accountable for their conduct of work to the people they support and to the Directors of [Employer hidden]. They have a direct reporting relationship with the team leader and will be supervised regularly. Support workers are accountable for working within both legislation and organizational policies.

While you are trusted within this role to ensure the well-being to the person you work for in a manner in which you provide support, it is also essential that the Support Worker recognizes his/her role in ensuring any knowledge or suspicion that he/she has regarding a threat to the person you work for’s well-being be reported immediately for investigation to the Team Manager or if more appropriate, a Director. This would be in the event of any suspicion of nay Team Member neglecting his/her role or more explicit acts of neglect or abuse including financial abuse. This would also include any concerns regarding other people in the person you work for’s life.

Support Workers are expected to attend all booked training and Team Meetings and to complete assigned assessment papers within an agreed time scale.

Supervision and Team Meetings are an important part of accountability, you are expected to attend and participate in both.

PERSONAL DEVEOLOPMENT

• Support Workers must be willing to attend and participate in all training. They must work towards LDQ and complete it within 6 months of coming into post.
• Support Workers must meet Induction Standards.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

CRITERIA ESSENTIAL DESIRABLE

REQUIREMENT

Educational LDQ or willingness to gain qualification.

Qualifications

Experience Demonstrable experience of

working with people

preferably in a caring or

supportive role.

Knowledge, Skills Ability to promote the people we support’s dignity and

and Abilities right to privacy, particularly in areas of personal care.

Ability to empower the people we support and encourage

independence at all times.

Ability to promote equality in your practice for all

individuals.

Ability to communicate effectively.

Ability to keep written records.

Ability to work sensitively and maintain confidentiality of

the people we support at all times.

Ability to contribute to and work as part of a team.

Ability to undertake lone working.

Ability to work openly and to discuss and reflect on your

practice.

Post specific Willingness to work evenings, weekends, public holidays

requirements and carry out sleep-ins on a regular basis within the

guidelines on maximum safe working hours.

Willingness to assist the people we support during their

holiday/short break.

Ability to meet the physical demands involved in providing

care and assistance to the people we support.

Satisfactory attendance record – DDA absences excluded.

Willingness to travel and work within the areas the people

we support live.

To have a full UK driving licence.

While this Job Description is comprehensive, it may not cover every aspect of the role.

Duties may change from time to time as agreed by [Employer hidden].