Domilicary Support Worker - Brent, United Kingdom - Look Ahead Housing and Care

Look Ahead Housing and Care
Look Ahead Housing and Care
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Brent, United Kingdom

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Job profile:


  • The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
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Job details:
Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ00443
  • Date posted
  • 11/01/202 Application closing date
  • 12/03/202 Location
  • Brent
  • Salary
- £23,019.00 per annum

  • Package
- plus Annual Leave pro rata, Pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.

  • Contractual hours
  • 40
  • Basis
  • Full time
  • Job category/type
  • Full Time, Permanent
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Domilicary Support Worker:

Job description
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Recruiting Domiciliary care Worker to join our Homelessness service in Brent.


Looking for a new role where you can make a difference every day? We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Domiciliary care Worker to join our Homelessness service in Brent.

£ 23,019.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week, plus Annual Leave pro rata, Pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.

Shift patterns:
Monday-Friday (9am-5pm), may be required to work some weekends.

Look Ahead is a dynamic, leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. As an organisation we deliver over 110 services, providing support to around 7000 customers each year.

We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.

We're looking for a Domiciliary care Worker to join our Homelessness service in Brent.

  • To help customers with mobility difficulties, or any other physical difficulties, including incontinence To help in the use of aids and other personal equipment.
  • Accompany to Shopping.
  • To wash clothes and bed linen (which may include soiled laundry) when necessary.
  • Assist and encourage the management of healthrelated conditions such as dietary and fluid intake.
  • General domestic tasks including changing beds, taking out rubbish and the general up keeping of customers rooms. This may include supporting customers to dispose of sharps safely in sharps boxes.
  • Respect the confidential nature of the work.

Essential:


  • Caring and compassionate towards people in need of care and support.
  • Ability to keep written records in clear English about the care and support given to each customer including help with medicines.
  • Respect for people suffering from a range of medical conditions with different backgrounds and beliefs to your own.
  • Commitment to non discriminatory care practice.
  • Understanding of the support requirements of customers with complex needs.

Desirable:


  • Previous experience as a care worker NVQ level 2 or equivalent.

Job Overview:

Domiciliary Care worker will provide care to customers living within the homeless sector. The care worker will work across the services, supporting both male and female customers with complex needs. This includes health, mobility, alcohol dependency, mental health, and substance misuse. Care worker role is to support a customer to maintain a Standard of Living/health needs, including domestic tasks.


All care support should be done in a manner which encourages customers to work towards a maximum degree of independence.


Person Specification:


  • The ability to handle emergency situations.
  • Ability to work on own initiative.
  • Good interpersonal skills.
  • Effective verbal communication skills.
  • To provide feedback to the staff team.
  • Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour.
  • Exudes a warm friendly presence and open behaviour.
  • Prefers working as part of a group or team.
  • Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement.
  • Is persistent and encouraging with excellent persuasion skills when customers are reluctant to engage.
  • We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date._
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  • This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation._
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