Support Worker

We are a social care charity supporting customers with learning difficulties to lead independent lives. Using a person centred approach and in partnership with families and other supports, the role of Support Worker is to assist our customers in making choices, achieving their goals and living the lives they wish to lead. Role Responsibilities

• Display our core values and behaviours throughout all your working practices, acting in a professional manner at all times
• Work with our customers to identify, plan and agree activities within their home/community to achieve valuable outcomes that work best for the customer.
• Provide personal care with dignity and respect to our customers as required.
• Promote the rights and responsibilities of each individual customer.
• Maintain effective communication, both written and verbal, with all relevant individuals.
• Ensure care plans, records and outcomes are updated and actively participate in risk assessments.
• Administer medication as per support plans and policies and procedures.
• Share ideas or experiences with others to develop better ways of working for the benefit of the customer.
• Understand and keep updated on current legislation, codes, policies and procedures relevant to your role, ensuring you apply them in your practice.
• Ensure you comply with your duties and responsibilities under Adult Support and Protection legislation.
• Be actively involved in continually improving our ways of working.
• Reflect and take responsibility for your own learning and self development to continually improve your ways of working.
• Report any issues or concerns to a member of the management team in a timely way
• Carry out any duties in your role as the responsible person as required.
• Carry out any other reasonable duties as requested.
Above all this role requires a clear focus on delivery of a professional, ethical and quality driven service to all our customers.

Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.