The children in our care have faced more challenges than most, and it's our job to help them realise their potential and integrate back into their communities.
These are everyday things, but in this job they are powerful tools for building trust, creating memories and improving young lives.
Playing a game, eating lunch together, visiting a beach.
CrossReach is looking for a Night Care Worker to join our Residential Recovery Service, where we provide support for individuals recovering from addiction, particularly those detoxing from illicit substances and alcohol.
As a Night Care Worker, you will offer wakeful night cover, handling essential domestic duties, and acting as a key worker for service users.
Are you compassionate and dedicated, with a talent for night-time care?
We are looking for a dedicated Care Worker to join our team, providing support and care to older people.
As a key worker for designated service users, you will be responsible for developing and reviewing care plans, assisting with personal and intimate care, and helping with the use of any aids or equipment.
You will also liaise with health professionals as needed, support mental and physical activities, and maintain a high standard of personal environment and effects.
To use strengths-based approaches to assess, monitor and review the social care needs of service users and informal carers and find appropriate solutions and make appropriate referrals to external agencies within a preventative, enabling and rehabilitation framework and universal services in accordance with the Care Act eligibility criteria.
Take responsibility for managing casework with the supervision of a qualified senior practitioner within an outcome focussed approach and within the teams expected performance targets and outcomes, whilst promoting independence and assessing and managing risk.
To hold an individual caseload of varying degrees of complexity excluding casework that requires the expertise of a qualified professional.
Work with the service user and their families/carers to develop a package of support/assistance as they prepare to become adults and in their early adult life that promotes and maintains independence and wellbeing; where appropriate involve other agencies and use community resources to provide equality of opportunity, full participation and inclusion in society.
Manage a caseload of disabled children or young people aged 0-25 to assess, plan, monitor and review the support/personal assistance needs of service users, working in a person-centred way.
Main duties and responsibilities
Manage a complex and diverse caseload of children, young people and their families, undertaking assessments to determine the needs and capabilities of clients and carers, and drawing up plans of support under the supervision and guidance of a designated supervisor, using agreed eligibility criteria and in accordance with statutory requirements, Directorate and Corporate Policy and National Legislation.