Brain Injury Support Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

Support Worker Opportunity – Kingsteignton – £14.79/hr 

Location: Kingsteignton, Devon

Role – Support worker for 1:1 care – 48 hours per month minimum, plus additional leave cover.

Shift Pattern: 24-hour shifts . Staff en-suite bedroom provided.

Must have a full UK driving licence and be able to drive an automatic car (car is provided).

 Make a Real Difference – Join Our Caring Team!

Are you a compassionate and dependable brain injury support worker looking to make a meaningful difference in someone’s life?

This is a rewarding opportunity for a brain injury support worker to provide one-on-one care at home and out in the community, helping the client maintain independence, safety, and quality of life. Our active client will need clear support to maintain boundaries to enjoy social interactions safely in the community.

Our client has a cat and two snakes and is a real animal lover – our client needs some support to care for the animals. Snake handling is not essential!

You will be joining an established and experienced team of support workers and therapists who will be able to train you on how best to support our client.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Support with daily routines and some assistance with showering.
• Attend a local day centre (board games, cooking, social interaction.)
• Assistance with food shopping and planning.
• Supporting client to prepare and cook meals that you can eat together.
• Support client to attend rehab therapies including triking and hydrotherapy ( you do not need to go into pool.)
• Support visits to see family and friends, attend the gym and local cafes and restaurants.
• Attendance at personal and group supervision sessions.

The client follows a regular routine, preferring to be in bed by 6:30pm and is usually asleep by 9:00pm. Overnight needs are minimal, focused mainly on fall prevention and safety.

About You:

• Experience as a brain injury support worker confident working with complexity and occasionally, behaviours that can challenge.
• Calm, kind, and attentive and able to set clear boundaries consistently. This is a key necessity for this client.
• Comfortable providing care over a full 24-hour period, including overnight supervision.

If you're a skilled brain injury support worker who values person-centred care and wants to help someone live as independently as possible, we’d love to hear from you.

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Our Safeguarding Commitment

Libertatem Healthcare Group recognise the benefits of people and organisations working together to prevent and stop both the risks and experience of abuse or neglect, whilst balancing the right to be safe with the right to make informed choices. At the same time, making sure that both adult’s and children’s wellbeing is promoted including taking into consideration their views, wishes, feelings and beliefs in deciding on any action. With this in mind, we will work to adhere to the six key principles that underpin all safeguarding work.

The Libertatem Healthcare Group is rated OUTSTANDING with the Care Quality Commission and is a registered provider with CIW in Wales.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Experience as a brain injury support worker, with confidence working with complexity and occasionally, behaviors that can challenge. Calm, kind, and attentive, with the ability to set clear boundaries consistently.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Enviva Complex Care

Address

Libertatem Healthcare Group

Newton Abbot

TQ12 2JE

Employer's website

https://sonderwell.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)