Location: Bursledon, Southampton, Hampshire
Days & Hours: 30 hours of Team Leader duties per month and an average of 68 hours of support worker shifts per month. Some shifts will include weekend working.
Pay: £16-£19.63 per hour dependent on experience. Sleeping Nights are paid at National Living Wage per hour.
Driver required? Essential
Driving Clients Car? No, you will need a car with business insurance.
Using Own Vehicle for work purposes? Yes, on duty.
Essential: Supporting adults in their own home with Seizures, Learning Difficulties and ABI.
Desirable: Experience working with adults with ABI and LDAccommodation (while on duty): Good sized double bedroom with carer bathroom.
Interviews Week Commencing: Interviews will happen on a rolling basis. This advert will close when sufficient applications have been received. Please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application can be considered.
Start Date: ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks) Would you like to join a great support team and work with Rosie, she has a great sense of humour, an animal fan and a coffee lover!
Introducing Rosie
Rosie, born in, lives independently in her own home. She has a good sense of humour and is lovely to be around. Her Mum is very important to her, along with animals and coffee! A couple of times a year, she competes in Inclusive Ice Skating competitions. She has a great support team around her of people she likes and generally gets on well with most people. She needs help to motivate herself to do some activities. Rosie likes to be treated like an adult and has a weekly planner to help her keep up with what she has to do. She enjoys clothes shopping (but not food shopping) and going out for coffee. She responds well to being given one instruction at any one time.
Resulting from a head injury, Rosie has epilepsy, learning difficulties and a visual impairment. She requires one to one care for all of her personal, domestic and social needs, in addition to supervision for her epilepsy. The central role of the Team Leader is to assist Rosie to live a full and active life, enabling her to be as independent as possible and meet her potential, and managing rotas to ensure her support is provided. The Team Leader has a general role in promoting Rosie's learning, care and independence in the home and community.
The Team Leader duties will include maintaining and managing a team of 1:1 24/7 support workers, to include rotas and cover arrangements, inductions, appraisals, supervisions and identifying training needs. Ensuring the care given is of high quality, safe and effective. You will also have on-call duties.
The Support Worker role will involve working alongside Rosie in her own home and assisting her to manage and participate in everyday life-skills, including working at a City Farm and helping to look after the animals there, as well as keeping fit and healthy through activity. You will also be expected to assist with client related domestic chores, such as helping to clear up following kitchen tasks, tidying her room, ensuring her equipment is clean and tidy and processing her washing. It is essential that the Team Leader is prepared to assist with these tasks to ensure the smooth running of Rosie’s home and to work co-operatively with her and the Case Manager, to offer her the best opportunity to fulfil her potential. There will be an opportunity to go on holiday with Rosie.
This is wonderful opportunity to join a supportive care team where you can make a real difference to Rosie’s life by maximising her opportunities and promoting her independence wherever possible. A truly rewarding role for someone who is able to communicate effectively and an ability to work with patience, tact, understanding, warmth and compassion.
Benefits:
1. £16-£19.63 per hour dependent on experience. Sleeping Nights are paid at National Living Wage per hour.
2. On-going training & support provided
3. 5.6 weeks annual leave pro rata
4. Pension (subject to qualifying status)
5. Sick leave entitlement
6. Free DBS check.
In order to promote continuity of our high care standards, you will be offered:
7. Induction,
8. Relevant training opportunities (including The Care Certificate),
9. Regular clinical supervision/review meetings,
10. On-going support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department
Safeguarding
ILS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our Clients within the activities we undertake, and ILS expects all our Clients’ employees and workers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or workers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This position will require:
11. Proof of eligibility to work in the UK;
12. Satisfactory references, including your last employer;
13. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate. A conviction will not necessarily prevent you from being employed.