Support Worker - Prudhoe, United Kingdom - Ashdown Care

Ashdown Care
Ashdown Care
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Prudhoe, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Support Worker

Prudhoe,Northumberland

£11.50 per hour

Full time Days and Nights available


We are currently looking for Support Workers to join our team based in and around the above areas to help care for people in supported living settings.

What's on Offer?

  • Paid mandatory and ongoing career development training
  • Genuine progression opportunities
  • Chances to spin our WOW-Wheel
  • Flexibility around family commitments
  • Referafriend bonus
  • Loyalty bonuses.
  • Exceptional support from a company genuinely focused on changing people's lives

About the role:


Our Support Workers aid with all aspects of care inclusive of social, recreational, physical, and psychological needs of the service user.

You will be required to enable Service Users to lead fulfilling lives based upon their personal support needs.

You will work to high standards set internally and externally (for example, by the Care Quality Commission), doing all you can to make sure that the people we support, and your colleagues come to no harm and that the people we support are satisfied with the level of support they receive.

You will achieve this by communicating with individuals and by following the underpinning principles of Person-Centred Active Support.


What you will need:

Essential:

  • Respectful of the dignity of service users
  • Ability to maintain service user confidentiality
  • Ability to relate to service users and their needs
  • A desire to create a comfortable, harmonious, supportive, and fulfilling environment for service users
  • A commitment to undertaking relevant training and personal development
  • Basic literacy and numeracy
  • Ability to work in and contribute to a team
  • Approachable, calm and patient
  • Good listening abilities
  • Reliable and honest
  • Ability to communicate with peers, professionals, and service users
  • Committed to the principles and practice of Equal Opportunities
  • Committed to the provision of highquality care
  • Caring and sympathetic
  • Friendly, positive demeanour
  • Experience in Challenging Behaviour

Desirable :

  • Key worker experience
  • Experience in the field of learning disabilities, mental health, or physical disabilities and challenging behaviour
  • Experience of providing personal care
  • Writing and maintenance of care plans
  • Organising social and recreational activities

Job Type:
Permanent


Salary:
£11.50 per hour


Shift:

  • Day shift
  • Night shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

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

Education:


  • GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Experience:


  • Home care: 1 year (preferred)

Language:


  • English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

  • Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location:
In person
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