Job Description
To work with and provide care and support to service users with extreme learning disabilities who exhibit a variety of challenging behaviours posing a range of physical and emotional challenges.
Responsibilities
1. To provide direct support to service users who exhibit extreme challenging behaviour to manage the behaviour and to enable them to participate in a wide range of therapeutic and social activities.
2. To uphold social work values and to ensure good working practice including understanding and awareness of health and safety
3. To promote the independence and develop the skills of service users and assist with all tasks necessary to ensure positive life experiences
4. To work positively with other agencies, parents, carers, and other services to ensure a quality provision of care for service users
5. Develop and contribute to the maintenance of service user records and support plans and act as a key worker when required.
6. To ensure that the living environment of the service users is clean and appropriate to meet each individuals needs
7. To participate in regular and ongoing training relevant to the needs of the service users.
The Individual
8. Experience that would give the post holder insight into issues in relation to working with people with a disability who exhibit challenging behaviour.
9. Willingness to undertake SVQ level 2
10. Willingness to undertake further training as required
11. Willing to work towards SSSC
12. Good Practical Skills
13. Good Observational Skills
14. Flexibility, Empathy and Approachability
15. Ability to work as part of a team
16. Ability to remain calm in a crisis
17. Ability to reflect on your own practice
18. To understand your own feelings about being challenged
19. Knowledge of Social Care Values
20. Ability to form positive relationships with service users, colleagues, parents and other professionals
21. Sensitivity and understanding of discrimination and health and well being issues
22. Flexible approach to work patterns and bases and ability to work within a shift based rota system
23. Ability to respond appropriately in difficult or challenging situations
24. Ability to work effectively as part of the support team and in multi-disciplinary settings
25. Ability to use own initiative and to be self motivated
26. The ability to engage service users in activities and participation within their home and in the local community
27. Ability to communicate in an open an approachable manner
28. Ability to carry out duties that involve personal care of service users
29. Ability to carry out moving and handling duties in line with health and safety regulation and risk assessment
30. Ability to support service users with physical activities such as swimming, hydro therapy etc
Closing Date: 30 September
Starting Salary: £26,.12
£13.63 per hour
full-time and part-time contracts available.
For further information contact: Kate McClue