support worker
18 the last 235 days, recently 2023-09-06
Responsibility
- caring for Adults with Learning Disabilities in various settings, home and within society
- working closely with service users in respect to completing everyday tasks
- promoting independence and confidence at all times
Show more +15 - ensuring that hostel occupants comply with hostel rules and regulations
- dealing with difficult situations where clients may feel and become stressed
- prospero Health & Social Care are looking for Learning Disability Support Workers to deliver the best standards and quality of care to work on a temporary basis to suit their own work / life balance
- reporting any breakages / repairs needed to appropriate teams within the business e.g. maintenance, management
- our client is looking for ad-hoc cover to care for its service users to provide them with the very best treatment, care and quality of life working with a closely knit team of other Support Staff
- ensuring that hostel administration and financial reports are completed to a good standard
- ensuring that health and safety procedures are explained and adhered to within the hostel
- to provide relevant information to all visitors to the hostel
- your duties will include
- to liaise with Housing Officers where appropriate to meet client needs
- to promote a sense of equality and diversity throughout the business
- allocating rooms / bedding and other resource to occupants and ensuring that all hostel equipment is maintained to a good standard
- to ensure standards of customer care are to a high standard
- skills
- to understand the importance of data protection issues
Requirements
- experience in a support work/care environment
- experience of previously working with children and young people
- hold the Right to Work in the UK
Show more +25 - hold a right to work in the UK that can be checked and verified
- hold the right to work in the UK
- an interest and understanding of the needs of the young people
- possess an enhanced DBS certificate registered with online update service or be willing to process a new application
- must possess 12 months UK experience in a similar role
- DBS
- health and Social Care Level 2 or 3
- provide two professional care related references
- DBS New DBS can be obtained through application with Prospero
- to provide professional references that cover 3 years
- you must possess 12 months experience within care settings within the UK
- must possess a caring, flexible nature
- up-to-date mandatory training - Food Hygiene, Health and Safety, Fire Safety, Infection Prevention, Equality and Diversity, Autism training
- safeguarding training is imperative; you can undertake a free course with Prospero Health and Social Care if you have not completed a Safeguarding course in the last 12 months
- flexibility to be able to work at key times including before/after school, evenings, weekends and school holidays
- PBM & Manual Handling Training that is within date is an advantage in this position but options can be explored if certification isn't in place
- support Environment: 1 year
- PBM & Manual Handling Training that is within date is a massive advantage in this position but options can be explored if certification isn't in place
- support Work / Care: 1 year
- working in the UK: 1 year
- working in a Health and Social Care setting: 1 year
- support Work: 1 year
- working in a health and social care setting: 1 year
- in a health and social care setting: 1 year
- must have a Can-Do attitude. A kind, caring, flexible, patient manner, and an ability to remain calm when faced with challenging behaviour and situations as and when they occur. To be able to liaise with professionals
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