Waking Night Healthcare Support Worker - Bolton, United Kingdom - Care In Mind

Care In Mind

Verified Company

Bolton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

At Care in Mind our homes are always a hub of activity and energy where the young people can feel safe, and our staff enjoy coming to work.

Our young people can still be quite active at night so you will have lots of interaction and will be required to support them their wellbeing, education, household tasks and general life skills.

There will also be more challenging aspects to the role such as incident management and de-escalation of challenging behaviours.

You will be required to update online care records, complete medication administration and provide effective handovers to the day staff.

In addition, you will be responsible for the general upkeep and tidiness of the home ensuring the young people live in homely environment.

Even though you are working nights, you will have the support of another night worker or a sleep in and have access to an on-call manager for additional support.

At our home in Lostock, you will be working with young people who have diagnosed eating disorders, alongside a variety of mental health diagnoses.

Our young people often use self-harm and compensatory behaviours as a strategy to cope with their emotions.

Your role will be required to support the young people through their eating complexities, including meal support, food and fluid documentation and post meal support.

You will also support and help to manage incidents of self-harm and other risk-taking behaviours.

Some of our young people have physical health concerns which require close monitoring and documenting - full training for this is provided.

A number of our young people are preparing for independence too, to move on from the home into the community.

Therefore you will be supporting this transition through things such as: discovering different education routes, accessing public transport and appointments independently and supporting them to self-administer their own medication.

Our young people are all unique and have different interests, they engage in a variety of activities including going to theme parks, pottery painting and watching theatre plays, so there will never be a dull moment when you are on shift.

Previous care experience is not essentialand full training will be provided.

You will receive ongoing support and mentoring from our friendly residential and clinical team which includes Reflective Practice, 1:1 supervisions and Group Staff support.