Support Worker - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Framework Housing Association

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Full Time - 37 hours per week (24 hour rota working shifts)

Permanent


Anyone appointed for a permanent position through this recruitment campaign will receive a £500 payment in their first pay after starting with us, followed by a further £500 on successful completion of their probationary period.


  • Are you looking for a new challenge?
  • Are you an enthusiastic, compassionate and dynamic individual?
  • Do you want a role where you are seen, heard and valued?


Framework Housing Association is the lead provider of drug and alcohol treatment within the City of Nottingham and is offering an exciting opportunity to join a team of staff in this Care Quality commission rated GOOD care setting.

Edwin House is a 63-bed facility based in Radford. Of these 63 beds, 15 are used for an in-patient detox and 48 beds provide residential accommodation.

The vacancy is in the residential area of this facility and the role involves supporting people who present with a range of complex support and health conditions resultant from historic or current problematic substance misuse.


Framework is looking to appoint a Support Worker at Edwin House to provide high standards of care and support and work proactively with service users to enable them to gain some control over their substance use, improve their quality of life and build recovery capital.


Duties and responsibilities

  • Provide face to face & one to one, informal support, dealing with a wide range of individual needs.
  • Assist Service Users with personal care and to complete daily living tasks as set out in their care and support plans which promote health and wellbeing.
  • Contribute to the Review of individual care and support plans, and risk and needs assessments for service users.
  • Respect the rights and responsibilities of Service Users.
  • Advise Service Users to make informed decisions and choices.
  • To build skills and confidence of Service Users.
  • To work alongside Senior Care Workers/ nurses and managers to ensure tasks and objectives identified in care support plans are achieved within agreed time scales.
  • To work with the occupational therapist to implement and review structured programmes and meaningful actives.
  • Empower Service Users to maintain health and well being
  • To assist with move on accommodation.
  • Identify your own development needs and actively seek opportunities to expand your knowledge, skills and experience to meet the developing needs of the service.
Please see attached job description for further details on the role.

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Why join us?

  • Working for Framework is a great way into social care. We invest in you and encourage career progression providing a full induction, elearning and classroom training, management development pathways, fullyfunded professional qualifications and more.
  • Your wellbeing is important to us. We emphasise wellbeing in all our working environments and employ a Wellbeing Practitioner to support our staff.
  • Employee assistance programme, salary sacrifice schemes.
  • Stakeholder pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and paid sick leave.
  • 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays increasing with service.
  • Paid DBS and Update Service.
  • Loyalty awards and noncontributory life insurance.

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