Overview
Post Title: Support Worker
Team: Falcon and Griffin Extra Care Scheme
Falcon & Griffin is an Extra Care Scheme for individuals aged 55 and over, offering independent living with on-site care and support. Staff work on site from 8am to 10pm, 365 days a year, and we offer emergency off-site support overnight.
Responsibilities
* Medication administration
* Meal preparation
* Laundry
* Signposting to external services
* Work in close partnership with social workers, housing providers, and other multi-disciplinary agencies
* Provide a high-quality, reliable support service to enable customers to develop individualised, person-centred support plans
* Promote choice and independence; encourage and motivate customers; assist them to build confidence and achieve personal goals following their support plan
Key strengths and experience
Lets’ do it approach aligned to Bury\'s Lets Do It Strategy and our IMT behaviours
Our Vision Statement is: To provide strengths-based services that supports and empowers the people of Bury to achieve their best level of independence within their “home”. Maximising health and well being, enabling them to remain at home to live a fulfilled life.
* Teamwork - working together towards a common goal
* Respect - valuing yourself and others
* Accountability - taking responsibility and ownership for decisions, actions, performance, and behaviours
* Trust - being honest, admitting mistakes, sharing struggles, or asking for help
* Caring - genuinely caring for ourselves and each other
* Empowering - giving people knowledge and resources to promote autonomy
* Together - support to develop your career with training, resources, and opportunities
You will be proactive, flexible and resilient with a good understanding of care needs of adults aged 18 and over, strengths-based support, maximisation of rosters, and electronic call monitoring within a home care environment.
You will be able to manage competing priorities and take management instruction to ensure service users are safeguarded at all times.
You will be able to work as part of a wider team where good communication skills, both written and verbal, are vital.
Use of Excel and Electronic Call Systems to a proficient level.
Working arrangements
Staff work on a rota basis between 8am and 10pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. There is a matrix payment for weekend and anti-social working hours.
About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check. In line with safer recruitment, ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and provide reasons for any gaps. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.
Please note we are unable to support sponsorship at this time.
As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver consider our care-experienced young people, promotes their life chances, empowers them to influence policies and decisions, champions their rights, and ensures they grow up in the best possible way.
Benefits
To hear about the benefits of working with Bury Council, please visit the council job site. We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements. We are committed to equality and will guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked-after children/care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the “About You” or “Supporting Statement” section of your application.
Next steps
For an informal chat regarding the role, please contact Naomi Smith on 07715214372.
Interviews will be arranged w/c 20/10/2025 and successful candidates will be contacted.
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