Support Worker Part Time

Support Worker working with Adults with Learning Disability in the Bedford area

Support Worker – Adults with Learning Disability
Bedford
Temporary – Permanent Hours 7-2 and 2-9
From £10.17 per hour

Job Description

• To provide assistance with care, personal support, daily living tasks or activities to customers within their own home, day centres, residential care settings and the wider community to support them attain their full potential, maximise options available and encourage choice, participation and motivation.

Key competencies and skills

• Good interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
• To be able to work on own as well as part of a team.
• To be able to establish and maintain professional working relationships.
• Able to work under pressure and apply consistent approaches.
• To be able to work flexibly and creatively with customers and their families.
• To be discreet and able to maintain confidentiality.
• To have good basic levels of reading and writing in English. To be able to maintain accurate records.
• Basic IT skills.

Essential requirements

• A level of professional development and registration as indicated by purchaser, regulator or LC (this may include level 2 in Health and Social Care Adults/Children or Young people, or Learning Disability or other similar qualification), dependant on location.
• Where driving is required, a full driving licence.
• To be able to work flexibly within rostered hours and be prepared to participate in an on-call rota if required by the respective service.
• Prior experience of providing personal care would be advantageous.

If working at a Support-at-Home (SAH) service, to be able to travel to cover work allocated on the rota and to use the service’s on-call system in accordance with the service guidance.

Key responsibilities

• To support customers with their physical care, personal hygiene needs and daily life tasks and skills as required by their person-centred plan (PCP), ensuring that their independence is preserved and developed as far as possible and affording appropriate levels of privacy and dignity.

• To support and facilitate customer communication with their relatives, friends, professionals and other members of staff, in order to ensure the continuity of quality and safety in the provision of support.

• To work within a person-centred approach so as to encourage customers to maintain maximum independence, taking into account their physical and emotional condition, as well as their current skills, personal choices and aspirations.

• To encourage and support customer participation in the running of the service provision.

• To be open to customer preferences as to how tasks are carried out.

• To report and record any incidents or events that may have an impact on the customer’s PCP, liaising with the immediate supervisor (and/or any other relevant staff) as appropriate.

• To ensure that record-keeping is maintained and updated in an accurate, timely and confidential manner.

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