Learning Difficulties Support Worker
LOCATION:
Letchworth, Hertfordshire
SALARY:
£13.15 Basic
DURATION:
Temp to Perm
HOURS:
40 hours per week
(Including evenings and weekends | 7am-2.30pm | 2.30pm-10pm)
Job summary:
Specialist Behaviour Support Workers are responsible for supporting people with learning disabilities and behavioural needs to live full lives, develop skills, and maintain their wellbeing. You will be providing support to one male customer in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
Daily Duties
- Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers and creating a positive atmosphere.
- Carrying out holistic assessments of new customers which incorporate relevant statutory referral information.
- Conducting regular key work sessions that are innovative and engaging in order to achieve Support Plan goals.
- Create support plans for providing appropriate services based on on-going assessment and reflecting the services and resources available to enable customer to progress in their recovery.
- Ensuring ongoing assessment and management of risks associated with customers within an attitude of ‘positive risk taking.
- Provide support and access to relevant services to enable customers to continue their recovery and empower customers to self-manage their medication regimes through individual re-enablement programmes and informed decision making.
- Undertake support work in partnership with external stakeholders to complement their interventions.
- Developing productive relationships with partner organisations to improve service outcomes.
- Demonstrate strong commitment to the functioning of the staff team and to support colleagues in providing a high level of service and safety to customers.
- Involving customers in the design, development and delivery of the service
- Adhering to lone working protocols and maintaining high levels of awareness in relation to the health and safety of yourself and colleagues.
- Ensuring Health and Safety policies and local protocols are adhered to at all times e.g. fire risk assessments, fire alarm checks etc.
- Being responsible for the handover of key information between shifts.
- Provide structured support and guidance to other front-line staff in their area of expertise.
- Lead groups and activities - offering a range of appropriate therapeutic and recovery focused interactions and activities.
- Adhering to all other policies and procedures. Engaging in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills.
- Undertaking any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as assigned by the Team Leader/ Manager.
Essential requirements
- DBS within the last 12 months with adults and children's barred list (must have original copy)
- Extensive knowledge around safeguarding
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with customers with Autism/Challenging Behaviour/learning disabilities and supporting them in line with a PBS framework.
Desirable requirements –
If you don't have the below requirements we can provide online training to complete.
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults (SOVA) Level 3.
- Safeguarding Children & Young Adults (POCA) Level 3.
- Counter Fraud in the NHS.
- Information Governance, Data Protection, Handling patient information, GDPR, Record keeping and Caldicott Protocols Training.
- Manual Handling Training.
For more information on this role please contact
Emily Rex
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