Respite and Outreach Support Worker

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week

Shift Pattern: Various shifts, 5 days over 7

Contract: Long Term (3 months+), Temporary

Role Purpose: We are seeking dedicated and compassionate Respite and Outreach Support Workers to join our established team. In this role, you will provide planned short breaks and respite for vulnerable adults, offering their relatives, family members, and carers a much-needed break from their caring responsibilities.

Requirements:

• Right to work in the UK.
• Enhanced Child & Adult Workforce DBS on update service.
• Level 2 RQF Qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver personal and practical assistance to vulnerable service users.
• Provide full and accurate information about the user’s situation to customers and colleagues.
• Work collaboratively within the team to ensure high-quality care and support.

Knowledge:

• Awareness of service-specific government legislation (e.g., Valuing People, Capacity Act, Your Health Your Say).
• Induction training including policy, procedures, and basic health and safety.
• Understanding of the cultures, religions, and beliefs of the local community.
• Awareness of Health and Safety requirements within a care setting.

Skills:

• Basic reading and writing skills.
• Good communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to carry out planned packages of support, including the provision of physical care where appropriate.
• Ability to organise and prioritise work.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.
• Ability to make sound judgements regarding risk, needs, and resources.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment.

Experience:

• Ability to cope with significantly challenging behaviour.
• Experience working within a care and support environment with vulnerable adults.
• Practical experience in a workplace with fragile and vulnerable people to understand safety hazards.
• Experience working with and implementing Care Plans.
• Preparation of reports, care plan reviews, and individual support plans and/or Person-Centred Plans.

Multi-Agency working (Children and young people services)

• Act as a single point of contact that the child of young person and their family can trust, and who is able to support them in making choices and in navigating their way through the system.
• Hold appropriate, well planned interventions, when needed. That are regularly reviewed and effectively delivered.
• Overlap and inconsistency from other practitioners reduced.
• Transition into adult services will involve the post holder visiting the service users home, meeting parents/carers and other professionals through out the process.
• To be able to transition from Child services to Adult services
• A concise, accurate and efficient service care plan
• Building positive relations between service user, family and other professions.

If you are passionate about providing high-quality care and support, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join our team and make a positive impact in your community.