Support Worker

Position:?Wellbeing Practitioner

Type:?Temporary (ongoing), Part-time and Full-time vacancies available

Location:?Various locations around Bury

MUST have uk license and access to a vehicle.

Shift Patterns:

• Full-time Split Shifts:?8:00 AM - 1:00 PM and 4:30 PM - 9:30 PM (10 hours per shift), working a 2-week rolling rota (including weekends/bank holidays)
• Week 1: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
• Week 2: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
• Part-time Evening Shifts:?4:30 PM - 9:30 PM (5 hours per shift), working a 2-week rolling rota (including weekends/bank holidays)
• Week 1: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday
• Week 2: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

Requirements:

• Must be a driver and have access to a vehicle
• Clear enhanced DBS check
• Relevant experience in support work, moving and handling, etc.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team

Responsibilities:

1. Support and Reablement:

• Promote the reablement of customers with identified needs.
• Enable customers to reach their potential, maintain independence, and continue living in their own homes or return after a period of support.

1. Person-Centred Care:

• Provide therapeutic and creative solutions to assist recovery and encourage independence.
• Reduce dependence on services through self-management.

1. Goal Planning:

• Contribute to the delivery, evaluation, and adjustment of goal plans to maximize independence outcomes.
• Meet identified goals within agreed timelines.

1. Daily Living Assistance:

• Assist customers, including those with complex needs, with daily living tasks such as personal care.
• Enable customers to undertake these tasks themselves in line with their personal goal plan and risk assessments.

1. Assessment and Review:

• Positively contribute to the assessment and review of customers' needs.
• Support the creation of accurate and therapeutic goal plans.

1. Communication:

• Receive, transmit, and store information using appropriate methods (face-to-face, telephone, electronic).
• Be aware of and react to any changes in customers' needs or service provision at the beginning of each visit.

1. Customer Care:

• Deliver outstanding personalized customer care.
• Liaise with families, carers, and advocates professionally and courteously.
• Respect confidential information in line with the authority's policies.

1. Compliance:

• Adhere to the appropriate policies, procedures, and values of the authority and department.

Tasks Include:

• Supporting customers with washing/dressing, showering, meal preparation, and medication.

If you are passionate about making a difference and meet the above requirements, we would love to hear from you!