Job summary
Salary: £13.47 - £13.90 per hour
Hours per week: 37 hours
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Wiltshire Reablement - Empowering Independence
If you are passionate about helping others and looking to start your career in the care industry, this is the perfect opportunity for you. We believe in nurturing talent from within and offer NVQ apprenticeships and upskilling through practice and skills development.
Our Reablement Support Workers provide vital assistance to individuals in their homes post-hospital discharge. They play a pivotal role in helping customers achieve their goals, working closely with dedicated occupational therapists to co-develop personalised reablement plans.
We are seeking individuals with a genuine passion for helping others who are available on a rota basis between 7am to 10pm 365 days a year.
Main duties of the job
Reablement is a short-term, therapist led service aiming to prevent, reduce and delay the need for
ongoing services. Reablement supports people to be as independent as possible and includes the
provision of information and advice, analysis of needs, provision of equipment and adaptations and
targeted assistance from a team of support workers.
The reablement team seek to support people to make use of community and personal assets to
achieve their goals.
The overall responsibilities of the reablement team are:
To work with customers and carers/families to identify goals and design creative reablement
support plans to achieve them.
To connect customers with local resources and facilities.
To operate within legal frameworks and defined budgets for social care.
The team will work closely with colleagues from Health, private providers, the voluntary sector
and others, to support the occupational needs of customers.
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.
The council is committed to creating an environment of positive working relationships where everyone feels engaged, supported and able to thrive. Our Identity is a framework which sets out how we are all expected to lead, work and act to deliver our services. We will not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment of any kind. Everyone is expected to promote a culture of inclusion, dignity, trust and respect which is underpinned by our vision and Our Identity framework.
If you have applied for this role within the last six months, you do not need to reapply. Your application will remain on file and will be considered.
While we welcome applications from job seekers who require skilled worker sponsorship, we are not able to issue a defined certificate of sponsorship due to limitations in our sponsorship capacity.
Please download and read the role description and person specification carefully before you apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Under the guidance and supervision of the Senior Reablement Worker (and from time to time other
members of the reablement service management team), your role will be to assist customers to achieve the goals and objectives set-out in their person-centred
reablement support plan.
This will include: providing customers with personal care and facilitating
customers with daily living activities.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
Work with customers to help them regain their independence with daily living skills, including
washing, dressing, meal preparation, and personal care
Safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of customers as well as colleagues
Take part in staff development programmes, assuming responsibility for own professional
development i.e. undertake all mandatory training relevant to the service and part of the training
pathway for the role e.g. Care Certificate and specialist reablement training
Assist customers with the use of mobility aids and assistive equipment where required
Deliver reablement support in a range of settings. Primarily customers own homes but, if
required, also day centres, day hospitals and in the community
Assist customers with moving and positioning, adhering to health & safety requirements as well
as organisational policy and procedures
Contribute to daily communications, accurate record keeping, recording actions, interventions
and incidents in customers records
Participate in regular team meetings and customer review meetings
Ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act and maintain customer confidentiality and
security of information at all times
Communicate effectively with the immediate team and other health and social care
professionals as appropriate
Participate in own supervisions, appraisals and objective setting
Assist the team with general duties if required e.g. office filing, answering telephone calls etc
Work as part of the team, offering a flexible approach to staff rostering
Abide by the principles and practice set out in the staff handbook
Job description
Job responsibilities
Under the guidance and supervision of the Senior Reablement Worker (and from time to time other
members of the reablement service management team), your role will be to assist customers to achieve the goals and objectives set-out in their person-centred
reablement support plan.
This will include: providing customers with personal care and facilitating
customers with daily living activities.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
Work with customers to help them regain their independence with daily living skills, including
washing, dressing, meal preparation, and personal care
Safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of customers as well as colleagues
Take part in staff development programmes, assuming responsibility for own professional
development i.e. undertake all mandatory training relevant to the service and part of the training
pathway for the role e.g. Care Certificate and specialist reablement training
Assist customers with the use of mobility aids and assistive equipment where required
Deliver reablement support in a range of settings. Primarily customers own homes but, if
required, also day centres, day hospitals and in the community
Assist customers with moving and positioning, adhering to health & safety requirements as well
as organisational policy and procedures
Contribute to daily communications, accurate record keeping, recording actions, interventions
and incidents in customers records
Participate in regular team meetings and customer review meetings
Ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act and maintain customer confidentiality and
security of information at all times
Communicate effectively with the immediate team and other health and social care
professionals as appropriate
Participate in own supervisions, appraisals and objective setting
Assist the team with general duties if required e.g. office filing, answering telephone calls etc
Work as part of the team, offering a flexible approach to staff rostering
Abide by the principles and practice set out in the staff handbook
Person Specification
Specific requirements for this post:
Essential
- To work shifts to meet the needs of the service including early morning, evenings, weekends and bank holidays. An unsocial hours payment for unsocial hours working will be paid where appropriate.
- To undertake travel across the Wiltshire area to carry out customer visits.
Qualifications
Essential
- Care Certificate or equivalent skills and experience or willingness to undertake the required training
- General level of education to GCSE A*-C or equivalent skills and experience
Experience
Essential
- Empathy with the elderly and/or people with a disability and an understanding of their needs
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload
- A pleasant and helpful manner
- Effective communication both written and oral
Desirable
- Previous experience of providing care and support to the elderly and/or people with a learning disability.
- Basic knowledge of safeguarding.
- Basic knowledge of regulations relevant to community care.
Person Specification
Specific requirements for this post:
Essential
- To work shifts to meet the needs of the service including early morning, evenings, weekends and bank holidays. An unsocial hours payment for unsocial hours working will be paid where appropriate.
- To undertake travel across the Wiltshire area to carry out customer visits.
Qualifications
Essential
- Care Certificate or equivalent skills and experience or willingness to undertake the required training
- General level of education to GCSE A*-C or equivalent skills and experience
Experience
Essential
- Empathy with the elderly and/or people with a disability and an understanding of their needs
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload
- A pleasant and helpful manner
- Effective communication both written and oral
Desirable
- Previous experience of providing care and support to the elderly and/or people with a learning disability.
- Basic knowledge of safeguarding.
- Basic knowledge of regulations relevant to community care.
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.
