Overview
This is a temporary Bank Support Worker role at Walcott House in Bognor Regis, which provides a specialist residential service for men and women with a range of learning disabilities, including autism and sensory and communication impairments. You will be part of an inclusive and supportive team that works to provide care and support to individuals with a learning disability, using your knowledge and skills to help people along their recovery pathway towards leading a valued and fulfilled life.
Main duties and responsibilities
* As a Bank Support Worker, you will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with learning disabilities, using your knowledge and skills to help people along their recover pathway towards leading a valued and fulfilled life. Your day-to-day will include ward rounds, analysing behaviours and adapting care accordingly with colleagues, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene.
* It can be a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important.
* But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of your involvement, knowing that you’ve made someone’s life better.
About us
Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Job details
Location: Walcott House, 12 Annandale Avenue, Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO21 2EU. You will be working at Walcott House, a Learning Disability and Autism service which provides a specialist residential service for men and women with a range of learning disabilities, including autism and sensory and communication impairments.
You will work alongside the multidisciplinary team to provide care and support to individuals with a learning disability who require a high level of support to live within a community setting and will continue to require this longer term. Service users may be transitioning from children’s residential services, education, moving out of the family home. We are also experienced in successfully managing clients moving from services where their placements may have broken down or where their needs are no longer being met. The aim of the service is to encourage individuals to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently through a programme of active community engagement, developing meaningful social networks and developing robust coping strategies.
What you will get
* Hourly rate of £12.85 per hour (plus 12.07% Holiday Uplift) + Benefits
* Two-week paid induction
* Free meals and parking
* Mandatory training to ensure you are fully able to do your job at the best of your ability
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance
* Pension contribution to secure your future (Optional)
About your next employer
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* No specific qualifications are required, but experience in a similar role and a caring nature are essential.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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