Support Worker

To provide appropriate physical, emotional or intellectual support to people using services that will enable them to fulfill their aspirations as determined through the individual care and support planning process. This will include planned and unplanned care including responding to attendant call systems
-To provide appropriate support that ensures that the dignity and privacy of each individual is promoted at all times, and that maximises the potential of each individual to live as independently as they are able to.
-To attend to the personal care needs of individuals as outlined in individual care plans. This includes assistance, support, encouragement and undertaking washing, dressing, grooming, continence care and associated manual handling procedures to enable such care to be delivered.
-To attend to the health care needs of individuals as outlined in an individual plan of care and within a competency framework. This will include supporting, prompting, assisting and administering medication; utilising equipment that enables the monitoring of a range of physiological metrics; undertaking simple wound dressings as part of a treatment plan.
-To support people using services to access a range of community opportunities, including those in leisure, educational and employment services, as directed by line managers.
-To positively contribute to the care and support assessment and care planning process for individuals through discussion, review processes and attendance at meetings.
-To contribute to ongoing assessment and monitoring of people using services by maintaining and updating records, as required in line with organisational policies and procedures.
-To liaise and communicate with a range of stakeholders, as appropriate, to promote effective service delivery.
-To undertake any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time, which are commensurate with the grade of the job.

Key Information Document(KID)
-Care Cerficate(England) or SSSC Registration Certification(Scotland)
-MAPPA Certificate- Managing Aggression and Potential Aggression.
-Administration of medication Certificate
-Enhanced DBS

Experience:
-Experience of providing care and / or support to vulnerable adults
-Understanding of person centered approaches.

Skills and Abilities:
-Able to maintain written records, as required
-Able to communicate effectively with people using services.
-Able to promote independence through working practices.
-An understanding of and commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.
-Able to work on own initiative.
-Ability to work flexibly, with a range of people using services, and to respond quickly to meet service delivery needs.

Other Requirements-
-Able to work non-standard work pattern on a rota
-Able to travel to meet the needs of service users and the service