Care Worker - London, United Kingdom - Renstep Health Care Services

Description

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RenStep currently in search of compassionate, caring, flexible, and reliable Health Care workers/Assistants to join our team. We have an opportunity based in London &, Hertfordshire, Epping Essex area. We support and care for the vulnerable adults in the community. This involves working with service users throughout London and surrounding areas. Therefore, there is a requirement to work flexibly to ensure individual needs are met while maximising independence, choice, dignity, privacy and well-being.


Responsibilities:

• Supporting service users with learning disabilities, complex needs and challenging behaviours
• Taking service users into the community, attending medical appointments and activities
• Supporting service users with daily activities / tasks
• Support to build confidence and skills in all activities as part of daily living
• To develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships with service users.
• To promote the selfesteem, happiness, and emotional health of service users
• To encourage and support service users in expressing needs, views, and concerns. To enable service users to make choices and decisions and to participate in planning and decisionmaking processes.
• To enable and empower service users to gain independence, confidence and competence in the following areas:
• Personal care and hygiene
• Improving and maintaining health and wellbeing
• Daily living skills
• Budgeting and managing money
• As a support worker, participate in the development, implementation and monitoring of individual support plans and engaging the clients in learning
• Contribute to and complete risk assessment regarding the clients when necessary
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with family members where appropriate and with outside healthcare professionals

Experience, Skills and Knowledge in care are advantageous but applicants must have a willingness to learn new things. The applicant will work as part of the team and be reporting to senior staff and the care manager.


Essential:

• Positive and nonjudgmental value base
• Knowledge of the latest legislation
• Demonstration of a commitment to supporting and motivating adults with learning difficulties/mental health/acquired brain injury
• Ability to maintain boundaries and communicate effectively with the clients
• Ability to work within a team.
• Ability to work shifts including sleepins including weekends and bank holidays
• Experience of working within a similar environment

Desirable:

• Full UK driving licence (desirable but not essential)
• Up to date mandatory training (desirable but not essential)

To Apply:

If you have the right _skills_ and _experience_ and are interested in this role, please submit your CV.


Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 12 months

Part-time hours: 37.5 per week


Salary:
£11.50-£17.50 per hour


Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Referral programme

Day range:

• Every weekend
• Monday to Friday

Physical setting:

• Care home
• Homecare

Shift:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift

COVID-19 considerations:
All team members have completed recertification of H&S Levels 1&2, & Covid-19 Awareness Training. We will continue to monitor the health of our team. Any team member with symptoms or someone in their household who has symptoms will self-isolate.


Ability to commute/relocate:

• London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

Spinal Injury: 5 years (preferred)
Support Worker: 3 years (required)


Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Shift availability:

• Day shift

(preferred)

• Night shift

(preferred)

• Overnight shift (preferred)

Work Location:
In person


Reference ID:
Care Worker*05