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Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting for a Support Worker for a client of ours based in Taunton, Somerset. Our client is an innovative Christian charity that provides specialist housing, care and support services in the community, and targeted advice in prisons, for people seeking to live crime-free.
Location: Taunton, Somerset
Contract type: Full-time, permanent
Salary: 23,222 + 2,322 location allowance
Hours: Days only, 12.5 hour shifts, 3 days on, 4 days off
The post could include some travel and overnight stops can be expected and may require you to work from a different location from time to time.
Main duties and responsibilities
- To key work and support clients generally within your project, and to act as the Key Worker to designated clients as and when required.
- To provide personal care to identified clients. To write Care Plans for clients and to implement a Care Plan. To keep health related records for clients as necessary. To meet with health and social service professionals. Specific duties will include but are not limited to; washing, bathing and showering, use of bath aids, assisting the clients to shave, mouth care.
- To take an active role in the assessment and management of risk including the operation of physical and situational security measures to control the level of risk posed to the public, staff and other clients and liaising with other stakeholders as appropriate.
- To maintain a clear and calm manner whilst managing client risk through assessment, planning, client knowledge and de-escalation as required.
- To ensure that all medication within the project is managed in line with Trust policy and procedures.
- To manage client meetings and facilitate the Client Inclusion and Training representatives so that they are equipped to reflect the views of other clients at meetings.
- To ensure that both prospective and former residents are supported through visits and/or correspondence.
- You may be required to prepare a room for the arrival of a new client. You will need to keep communal areas and office space safe and tidy eg bins emptied.
Person Specification
- Commitment to work for, and obtain, a qualification deemed relevant to the post, e.g. QCF Level 2 in Health & Social Care, Community Justice or similar.
- To undertake and update all Group mandatory training requirements for the role. As part of induction, it is mandatory that you successfully complete the Care Certificate normally within the first 12 weeks of employment.
- Be able to work in a challenging and demanding environment.
- Good listening and speaking skills.
- Willing to undertake an enhanced DBS with adult barred list check which must be satisfactory to the Trust.
- Able to work unsocial hours including nights, weekends and public holidays.
- Relates well to people of any background.
- A practising and professing Christian, able to interpret the Christian Mission of the Trust to a contemporary society (desirable).
- Experience of working with offenders or other disadvantaged groups in the criminal justice, housing, social services, not-for-profit sectors (desirable).
- Knowledge of accommodation management issues, funding, staffing and administration Experience of managing behaviours that challenge
Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.
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