Support Worker REF: SOLOBAK

Info

An opportunity has arisen to support three adults in their own home for 37 hours per week.

Applicants must be flexible and able to work weekday (including evenings), alternative weekend, sleep nights and as required waking nights (sickness and AL cover only). Each adult requires their own support with health or social care tasks.

Our clients enjoy spending time with their friends and family, looking after their purpose-built house, being active and listening to music or watching TV. They need the support of individuals, who pride themselves on high standards of support, to live their life and to do the things they love. It is important that they spend time with people who understand their ways in which they view the world and communicate and ways in which everyday life can worry and cause them anxiety. The right individuals will have a natural caring nature and be able to provide sensitive understanding of their needs.

They all enjoy a varied life, so flexibility is essential. Most importantly they want to enjoy a life that is as full of the 'ordinary' as possible and want people in their life who both appreciate this and can work with this in their day-to-day support for them. Good communication with them and their family is also very important.

Benefits Include

Day rate: £12.00 per hour weekdays / £12.50 per hour weekends

Sleep Rate: £85.50 per night.

Waking Night Rate: £14.00 per hour

Additional payments for bank holiday working.

Responsibilities

· Support with all aspects of personal care.

· Support with all aspects of nutrition and medication.

· To keep their home at an acceptable level of hygiene.

· To be able to respond to occasional emergencies during the night.

Essential

· Must have care experience.

· To have a good understanding of physical and mental health conditions and how these impacts on my day to day lived experience.

· To have good written and verbal English communication to support with any paperwork, household tasks.

· Be physically fit and able to push a manual wheelchair.

· Due to the nature of the role applicants must be female.

· Hold a manual UK driving license.

Desirable

· Able to use your own initiative and support with organizing and liaising with GP’s and other health care professionals involved in my health care

5.6 weeks holiday is awarded per year as standard (pro rata for part time positions). Employees are also able to join the Company Pension scheme after 3 months’ service, subject to the rules of the scheme, as well as our Cash Back Health Plan after completion of a successful probation period. If you are interested in applying please send a covering letter and your CV to office-east@solosupportservices.co.uk or please ring the office on: 0345 241 5565 to request an application form. (The position is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and is exempt from the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974)