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Salary: £13.47 - £13.90 per hour (plus 10% unsocial hours for qualifying shifts)
Hours per week: Casual Hours
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Bradbury Manor - Short Break Service Promoting Health, Ensuring Care
We are passionate about our community and take pride in our work. We encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do through trust and respect, empowering people to develop skills, collaborate and innovate to find solutions, be open, take responsibility, to listen and learn.
At Bradbury Manor, we provide short breaks away from the family home supporting customers, enabling them to take part in meaningful community focused activities or activities. We work with families, paid and unpaid carers to ensure that they are also involved and listened to, we will support the customer in the most appropriate way to enable them to maximise their independence.
Main duties of the job
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
Work in a person-centred way with customers and promote their wellbeing, choices, dignity and
independence. This will be achieved through the key-worker system.
Planning activities for and with customers, taking into account differing needs, wishes and
preferences.
Creation of menus taking into account medical conditions, wishes, preferences, diets, etc
Support customers either living in their own home, or whilst visiting the settings.
Encourage and support customers in their personal, social (including religious), and leisure and
work activities.
Support customers maintain and develop relationships.
When required undertake sleeping-in duties or waking night duties on the premises.
Act as a link person between the customer and work, college or leisure establishments and
advising those establishments as necessary on the requirements or needs of the customer.
Provide emotional and practical support for customers with everyday issues or when customers
are faced with more difficult decisions or experiences.
Assist/support customers with all aspects of their financial and home management so that
financial commitments (paying bills, shopping, benefit claims, etc) are met.
Assist customers with household tasks.
Where required, assist customers in administering their own medicine, or administer
medication to customers if this is required.
About us
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. That is why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.
We will provide regular training opportunities to support you in this role and you will be supported to undertake a 26-week probationary period with regular meetings throughout this period to monitor progress.
As a casual worker, you'll have no fixed hours and will work on an as-needed basis, depending on Wiltshire Council's requirements and your availability. You are not obligated to be available, and the Council is not obliged to offer you work.
Please download and read the role description and person specification carefully before you apply.
For more details, contact Angela Taylor, Registered Manager, via email at angie.taylor@wiltshire.gov.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide excellent quality Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered respite services to customers.
Such services need to be delivered in a business-like manner, promoting independence, responding
to crisis and delivering good outcomes for people using the Think Local Act Personal principles of a
good life.
The services in the Provider Services function include:
3 respite services
Shared lives services
Day services
Intensive Support Service
Enablement & Outreach Service
The post holder will ensure that services are delivered to the highest standards, providing robust quality assurance, compliant with all legal and statutory requirements and within an
effective and efficient performance management and budgetary framework
The Day Service mainly operates from smaller community bases in shared community buildings
across towns in Wiltshire. These include Riverbank (Chippenham), The Yarn (Devizes), The
Meadows (Salisbury), The Medley (Trowbridge), and The Wave (Warminster).
Day Services support people with a learning disability who may in addition have complex physical /
health needs, challenging behaviour or autism (customers).
We work with customers to look at how they would like to spend their time taking part in meaningful
community focused activities or activities that are completed in one of the adult care service bases.
We work with families, paid and unpaid carers to ensure that they are also involved and listened to,
we will support the customer in the most appropriate way to enable them to maximise their
independence.
The service will work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team with existing crisis support,
psychology, psychiatry and Learning Disabilities nursing providing wrapround support.
The Enablement & Outreach services will offer support for those with a learning disability, customers
with a diagnosis of mental health and ASD to develop skills and independence.
The team will
promote independence in daily living and enable individuals to access a range of opportunities in
their own and wider community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide excellent quality Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered respite services to customers.
Such services need to be delivered in a business-like manner, promoting independence, responding
to crisis and delivering good outcomes for people using the Think Local Act Personal principles of a
good life.
The services in the Provider Services function include:
3 respite services
Shared lives services
Day services
Intensive Support Service
Enablement & Outreach Service
The post holder will ensure that services are delivered to the highest standards, providing robust quality assurance, compliant with all legal and statutory requirements and within an
effective and efficient performance management and budgetary framework
The Day Service mainly operates from smaller community bases in shared community buildings
across towns in Wiltshire. These include Riverbank (Chippenham), The Yarn (Devizes), The
Meadows (Salisbury), The Medley (Trowbridge), and The Wave (Warminster).
Day Services support people with a learning disability who may in addition have complex physical /
health needs, challenging behaviour or autism (customers).
We work with customers to look at how they would like to spend their time taking part in meaningful
community focused activities or activities that are completed in one of the adult care service bases.
We work with families, paid and unpaid carers to ensure that they are also involved and listened to,
we will support the customer in the most appropriate way to enable them to maximise their
independence.
The service will work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team with existing crisis support,
psychology, psychiatry and Learning Disabilities nursing providing wrapround support.
The Enablement & Outreach services will offer support for those with a learning disability, customers
with a diagnosis of mental health and ASD to develop skills and independence.
The team will
promote independence in daily living and enable individuals to access a range of opportunities in
their own and wider community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- General Education to GCSE A*-C or equivalent skills and experience
- Current knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with, and the safeguarding of, vulnerable adults
- Willingness to undertake L2 Diploma in Health & Social Care (Adults)
Desirable
- L2 Diploma in Health & Social Care (Adults) or equivalent
- Knowledge of First Aid and experience of applying it
- Awareness of health and safety requirements and able to perform moving & handling safely
- Knowledge of the principles of Food Hygiene
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability to use a variety of communication methods effectively
- Physically fit and able to perform all requirements of the job role
- Previous experience of building good working relationships and teamworking
- Proven ability of being able to remain calm and make decisions in difficult situations
- Fluent in English
Desirable
- Awareness of health and safety requirements and able to perform moving & handling safely
- Knowledge of the principles of Food Hygiene
- Knowledge of the Person-centred approach
- Good IT skills
- Experience of supporting people on a one to one basis
- Driver
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- General Education to GCSE A*-C or equivalent skills and experience
- Current knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance in relation to working with, and the safeguarding of, vulnerable adults
- Willingness to undertake L2 Diploma in Health & Social Care (Adults)
Desirable
- L2 Diploma in Health & Social Care (Adults) or equivalent
- Knowledge of First Aid and experience of applying it
- Awareness of health and safety requirements and able to perform moving & handling safely
- Knowledge of the principles of Food Hygiene
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability to use a variety of communication methods effectively
- Physically fit and able to perform all requirements of the job role
- Previous experience of building good working relationships and teamworking
- Proven ability of being able to remain calm and make decisions in difficult situations
- Fluent in English
Desirable
- Awareness of health and safety requirements and able to perform moving & handling safely
- Knowledge of the principles of Food Hygiene
- Knowledge of the Person-centred approach
- Good IT skills
- Experience of supporting people on a one to one basis
- Driver
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.
