Support Practitioner Care Choices - Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Aberdeen Cyrenians

Aberdeen Cyrenians

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Aberdeen, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

About Us:

Aberdeen Cyrenians have provided front-line services and care in the North East for over 50+ years, empowering vulnerable and socially excluded people, to overcome their personal challenges, make informed choices and move towards positive outcomes, promoting dignity, inclusiveness and equality throughout communities.

Our organisation exists to support anyone and everyone who is facing difficulty and we provide a wide range of life-changing services including support to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, have experienced abuse, are at risk of violence, are at high financial risk, struggling with mental health issues, struggling with substance addiction, social exclusion or involved in the justice system.

Position:

Job title:
Support Practitioner | Care at Home Services

Responsible to:
Care at Home Service Manager

Hours of work:
Full-time hours per week)

Contract:
Permanent

Location:
Field-based working across all three localities of Aberdeen City (base office is Bridge of Don)

Salary:
£20,556

Main responsibilities:

Lead and participate in the provision of a high standard of person-led care and support for service users in their own homes, in line with individual care plans and risk assessments, organisational policies, national standards, codes of practice and legislation.

Communicate effectively with service users, families and multi-disciplinary teams, record appropriate care notes and create a safe, positive and enabling environment.

Job Purpose
Our Care at Home team is looking for caring, compassionate and motivated people to join their growing team. The role offers agreed flexibility in your hours of work.

We will offer you extensive training to support your development in your role to enable a great sense of job satisfaction.

Job Activities

To understand the physical, emotional, cultural, and social needs of the service users, including a wide range of needs, illnesses and disabilities
To provide a wide range of domiciliary care including personal and continence care, managing medication, household tasks and meal preparation as agreed in individual care plans
An understanding of palliative and endoflife care
An understanding of working with vulnerable elderly people
Working to a personcentred and enabling approach
To observe and promote the service user's choice, independence, dignity, privacy, fulfilment and other rights
To actively support other Support Practitioners
To undertake the tasks detailed in the service user's care and support plan using traumainformed practices
To encourage the independence and motivation of the service user and foster improved levels of selfsufficiency
To provide input into the care and support plans alongside the service user
To use manual handling equipment safely and correctly
To take responsibility for the safe handling of property and equipment belonging to the service user
To establish and maintain good communication and develop effective working relationships with service users, families and multidisciplinary teams
To ensure as safe as possible the living environment for the service user, whilst respecting the service user's choice and rights

Requirements:

Essential

A minimum qualification of N/SVQ2 in Adult Health and Social Care, or equivalent professional qualification (nursing etc) (or equivalent professional experience and a willingness to work towards SVQ2)
Literacy and numeracy at a level to maintain all the appropriate paperwork and report writing.
Proven track record in a similar role

Systems

Maintenance of records
Utilisation of PASS to record all information in relation to Service User Management
Team meeting attendance
Office 365 and IT Platforms

Quality Standards

Working to the appropriate Care Inspectorate standards
Working to the appropriate Scottish Social Services Council standards
Working to the appropriate Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator standards
Working to the appropriate Aberdeen Cyrenians standards and working in partnership with the commissioner.
Working to the appropriate Environmental Health standards

General Terms of Reference
In carrying out the above activities, the Home Care Support Practitioner will:

Work on their own and as part of teams, both within Aberdeen Cyrenians and with partnership organisations
Maximise their own performance and contribution
Ensure they comply with internal and external regulations, procedures and other requirements pertaining to the service
Maintain the good reputation of the organisation
Keep abreast of developments and legislation relevant to the service's range of activities
Seek to improve their knowledge and skills by both formal and informal means
Carry out other relevant work commensurate with the post as required

Aims, values and behaviours