Female Support Worker

Female Support Worker

Location: Bexley, Kent

Hours: Waking Night shifts (Except Friday nights), 7pm - 7am, Day shifts – 1 weekday and 1 weekend day, 7am-7pm

Job Type: Short term to permanent contract

Salary: £16 per hour (Weekdays and weekends) - £17 per hour (Waking nights), Double Time for Bank Holidays

The Role

This is a complex care package; the organisation are looking for experienced support workers, PEG feeding and paediatric experience are desirable.

Are you interested in broadening your knowledge and experience in brain injury? Do you want to make a positive difference to someone’s life? Whatever your background, join the team and help someone reach their full potential and live life to the max.

On behalf of their client, the organisation is recruiting enthusiastic, motivated, and highly skilled support workers to join a fantastic multi-disciplinary team. The support worker team provides 24/7 1:1 care and support to a 12-year-old girl with a brain injury who lives with her family in the Bexley area. She has severe quadriplegic cerebral palsy, no verbal communication, and visual impairment, and she is gastrostomy-fed.

Your role will enable their client to live in the community within her own home, maximising her rehabilitation potential, improving her quality of life, and achieving desired goals. She enjoys listening to music and going into the garden. It is imperative that support workers prioritise their client’s health and well-being by following the advice and guidance of the professionals involved in her care.

In the future as part of your role, you will also be able to take part in her therapeutic activities (as directed and trained by therapists) which will help to promote, improve and develop your own skills, experience and knowledge base.

In return they can offer you a supportive work environment, full training, and regular supervision.

Skills and Qualifications

Passion and commitment for the role, with an opportunity to get to know their client and make a difference to her daily living through:

• Engage and interact with her, ensuring she is settled and feels safe.
• Attend to her personal care needs, including washing, dressing, oral care, skin care and positioning.
• Administer feeds via her gastrostomy as per her feeding regime.
• Administer medication as per the MAR chart.
• Safe manual handling with the use of the ceiling track hoist and other specialist equipment
• The ability to bring your own strengths and interests to the team.
• Flexibility and availability to provide cover for absences on a 4-weekly rolling rota.
• Ability to communicate effectively, as part of a team and on behalf of the client, who is unable to communicate her needs for herself.
• Ability to write accurate, clear, and legible care records.
• Enthusiasm to support the client’s participation in therapy and fun based activities at home.
• Up to date DBS at enhanced level – paid for by the employer if you need to apply.
• Collaborate with family, reporting any concerns immediately to her mother or to the organisation.

Benefits

• An extensive induction and training programme offering support and guidance every step of the way.
• Regular supervision/appraisal and ongoing support from the wider team and therapists.
• Opportunities to gain experience, progress and develop in the role – CPD actively encouraged and supported.
• Extensive and ongoing training will be provided in all aspects of therapeutic handling, hoisting/transfers, , feeding, communication and personal care.
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Relaxed, homely, and welcoming working environment where no two days are the same.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable organisation, please do not hesitate to apply.

Occupational Requirement under the Equality Act 2010 for females only.