Bank/Relief Support Worker
- Hours : Zero Hours Contract (Ability to work flexible and unsocial hours including weekends, evenings, bank holidays and sleep-ins.) Work will be offered sometimes at short notice
- Location: Milton Keynes
- Salary: £ 12.00 per hour
This is a fantastic opportunity to work for a charity that provides holistic person-centred support for adults with learning disabilities and autism. You will need a flexible approach to work as you will be required to work a rota, which includes some evenings, weekends, bank holidays and sleep-ins.
Work will be offered sometimes at short notice, to cover planned and unplanned staff absences, for short periods; this will be on a casual, adhoc basis.
Your role
The support of service users with their general welfare, housing related tasks and pursuing their social and educational activities. Also to ensure that service users have a detailed Person Centred Plan to include agreed goals and action plans that assist them in achieving and maintaining independent life skills.
Some Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure, together with colleagues, that service users experience a safe, healthy and purposeful environment, in accordance with CMKC policies and procedures and statutory requirements.
Prepare and maintain written needs and risk assessments and support plan for allocated service users, in cooperation with people and others (in a Person Centred way).
- To support people in making their own decisions and informed choices and to assist them in promoting and maintaining their independence.
- To ensure information communicated to people is accessible to them.
- To support people to manage their own finances, budgeting and dealing with statutory bodies and services.
- To support people to access a range of leisure activities and other services.
- To support people to manage their personal care and health needs.
- To support people to maintain their tenancy and look after their home which they share with other people.
- To work with people to ensure planning of healthy diet choice.
General:
- Build a professional working relationship with residents, colleagues and relevant professionals.
- Represent CMKC in a positive and professional manner.
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality at all times
- Adhere to all CMKC policy and procedure.
- Comply with CMKC and Adult Social Care Workers Code of Conduct.
- Attend internal and external meetings, as required.
- To provide cover in other CMKC houses as required.
- To participate in trainings, meetings, personal development.
- To work in accordance with CMKC mission statement and statement of values.
- Undertake any other ad hoc Community development projects that may be required.
Why Join Us?:
We are keen on staff development! We offer excellent professional and career development and training opportunities, including professional qualifications.
We promote a diverse, friendly and high-quality working environment.
We offer the opportunity to work amongst a team of dedicated, creative and supportive colleagues.
We provide a fully paid DBS, generous holiday and work pension scheme.
If you are interested in this unique opportunity, then please apply by submitting your CV and a short supporting statement.