Role: Children's Night Senior Support Worker (Brambles)
Location: Mirfield, WF14 0DQ
Salary: £14.91/hr
Hours: Part-time (20hrs) Role includes alternate weekends.
Hollybank Trust, founded in 1954 has achieved a reputation of attaining very high care standards, working with children, young people and adults who have profound and multiple learning disabilities and complex needs.
Brambles is an 8-bed home for younger children with profound and multiple learning disabilities. At Brambles, the highly-skilled and enthusiastic team love to foster a fun and vibrant environment, promote skill-building, and celebrate achievements - and they're also not shy of a good karaoke party! This is an active and busy environment but also a lot of fun.
What we look for:
Confidence - being self-assured, asking for help when you need it and challenging behaviour or practices that you feel are inappropriate or unsafe.
Curiosity - being inquisitive and welcoming change, asking questions about the way that we do things and why, and putting yourself forward to try new things.
Happiness - being cheerful and positive, bringing your best self to work and sharing your enthusiasm for life with the people we are here to support.
Kindness - being caring and compassionate, reaching out to your colleagues if they look like they're struggling, being an active member of the team and working together to achieve shared goals.
What we offer:
A competitive salary and great pension scheme.
An employee rewards scheme with retail discounts and more.
A comprehensive employee assistance program, including support for mental health, a company sick pay scheme, and a life insurance benefit.
A fantastic, open, and supportive working environment.
Training & Development opportunities to support your development.
A wealth of opportunities to gain experience in a variety of skills.
Key Role Responsibilities:
Operations Management
To manage the night service provision of the key worker group in order to ensure the effective deployment of staff. To provide a 'hands-on' approach in assessing the competence and ability of the key worker groups.
Resource Management
To identify, assess and manage resource requirements to ensure that adequate levels of stock and equipment are available as required. To report any concerns at handover.
People Management & Personal Development
To continually seek development opportunities in order to improve personal performance.
To provide line-management of the base home Night Support Worker team.
To carry out and record regular supervision meetings with all direct reports in line with Trust and industry regulations.
To ensure all training is booked and logged for all direct reports. To ensure that any rota gaps created by staff attending training are covered by the night team and liaise with day senior staff in any cases of difficulty.
To assess and verify competence of Night Support Workers in meds administration and any other skills the Trust deems necessary.
To provide coaching & mentoring & learning and development opportunities for night support staff.
To fully participate in all team meetings, personal supervisions and reviews.
Development of autonomy
To work within key worker groups to establish and maintain relationships with residents which will complement and contribute to their care programmes and create a pleasant, happy and safe living environment.
Communication
To effectively communicate across different mediums: verbal, written and electronic.
To ensure handover is completed with the next shift to ensure effective communication channels and working practices are maintained.
To communicate and offer choice and independence to the resident throughout all aspects of care whilst fully adhering to the Mental Capacity Act. Use appropriate interactions for both verbal and non-verbal communicating residents, enabling residents to utilise their maximum abilities to make personal choices.
Ensure effective communication with all parts of the multi-disciplinary team.
Nutritional Needs
To support residents to meet dietary requirements by utilising the appropriate feeding method, monitoring and encouraging food and fluid intake, giving the individual choice, independence and monitoring and communicating any concerns.
To ensure eating & drinking guidelines are adhered to and basic hygiene guidelines are followed, ensuring residents are involved and given as much independence and choice as possible.
Personal Care
To assist residents where required with all areas of personal hygiene, including continence management, bathing and dressing whilst following the Care Plan at all times. Ensure that the highest levels of comfort, privacy and dignity are maintained for the individual.
To maintain a code of cleanliness and sanitation as outlined by the Trust infection control procedures
Behaviour Management
To manage behaviour whilst adhering to the care plans set out for individuals in line with current behaviour plans.
To ensure behaviour management plans meet requirements and feedback as appropriate.
Medication
To coordinate and administer medication and gastro feeds in line with Trust Policies and Procedures.
Moving and Handling
To implement correct lifting and handling techniques in order to ensure the safety and comfort of residents, whilst ensuring that Trust guidelines are adhered to and correct equipment is used where appropriate.
Postural Management
To follow physiotherapy postural guidelines in order to prevent deterioration and to maintain each individual's physical condition.
Environment and Property
To ensure that the physical environment is safe and tidy, so that residents are comfortable and their property is secure in their own homes. Includes ensuring that all bedrooms and communal areas are clean and tidy and any maintenance issues are logged accordingly on the electronic Maintenance Log.
Documentation
To accurately document all necessary tasks on the required documentation (Kardex & MAR Sheets) in a timely manner, including further communications with other members of the team where necessary on essential aspects.
To monitor and communicate any changes within the Care Plans to ensure the residents receive the optimum level of care required to meet their needs.
To record all incidents electronically in an accurate and timely manner and follow up assigned incidents as per required timescales.
Quality Assurance
To monitor and complete quality assurance checks and audits as defined by the Beautiful Book, Trust Policies and Procedures and schedules specific to each service.
Safeguarding
To adhere to and follow the Trust's Safeguarding procedures in order to protect the safety and privacy of all service users.
Confidentiality
In line with the Data Protection Act you will see the use and safe sharing of information as part of their responsibility. You will ensure you work in line with our data protection and information governance policies and procedures protecting and respecting the privacy of our children, young people and adults.
Flexibility
To carry out such other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time to meet the evolving needs of the organisation.
To find out more, please contact our dedicated recruitment team on 01924490833 or recruitment@hollybanktrust.com
Unfortunately we are not able to offer sponsorship to work in the UK, and we do ask that you have at least 6 months of UK based work experience in any sector.
Hollybank Trust is committed to Safeguarding vulnerable people, and our Safer Recruitment process requires all employees to have an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks in line with our Recruitment policy. Hollybank will pay for the DBS check. If the candidate leaves voluntarily in their first 12 months, £58.50 will be deducted from their final salary payment.
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