We are recruiting on behalf of Creative Support for a Support Worker. Creative Support is a not-for-profit organisation promoting the independence, inclusion and wellbeing of people with care and support needs. They do this by working with the people they support, their families and partner agencies to deliver innovative, high-quality services to meet individual needs and aspirations.
The service will offer an empowering model of support, which enables people to lead fulfilling and valued lives, maintain their tenancies, participate in their local community, develop independent living skills and achieve their personal goals and desired outcomes. As well as providing direct care and support, you will have the opportunity to act as a Key Worker supporting people to achieve their dreams and goals
The Role:
To provide individualised person centred support to service users with mental health issues, learning disabilities and personality disorder. To enable service users to enjoy a fulfilling and valued life, to participate in the community and to develop their abilities as fully as possible.
Care and Support :
- To develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships with service users.
- To promote the self-esteem, happiness and emotional health of service users.
- To respect the person’s right to privacy and ensure that their dignity is maintained at all times. To encourage and support service users in expressing needs, views and concerns.
- To enable service users to make choices and decisions and to participate in planning and decision-making processes.
- To support service users to express their personal identity, including gender and sexuality.
- To respect and promote the human rights and entitlements of people with learning disabilities and enable them to participate in their communities as active citizens, enjoying the same rights as others.
- To support service users to access independent advice and advocacy when needed and to signpost/refer to external agencies as required.
- To be responsive to the needs of service users in accordance with their Personal Support Plans and to respond flexibly to changing needs.
- To provide respectful and dignified personal care in accordance with individual care plans.
- To enable and empower service users to gain independence, confidence and competence in the following areas:
Personal care and hygiene
Improving and maintaining health and wellbeing
Daily living skills
Budgeting and paying bills
Social skills/relationships
Using community resources and facilities
Social, leisure and work activities
Finding and sustaining voluntary or paid employment
Self-organisation and coping abilities
Personal safety
- To achieve this through prompting, active support, encouragement, skills teaching and positive feedback.
- To build on individual strengths, interests and assets. Where service users are unable to carry out tasks for themselves (such as housework, shopping, cooking, laundry, etc) to carry these out on their behalf with regard for their preferences.
- To promote the service user’s active involvement and capacity for self-management when undertaking any tasks and to always seek to develop their skills and confidence
- Ability to demonstrate a warm, person centred and affirmative approach to people with learning disabilities
Hours: 37.5 hours per week including nights, sleep-ins, weekends, evenings and public holidays according to the needs of the service.