Learning Difficulties Support Worker (EXPIRED)
Letchworth Garden City
Healthcare & Medical
13.15 Hourly
Permanent
- Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers and creating a positive atmosphere.
- Carrying out holistic assessments of new customers which incorporate relevant statutory referral information.
- Conducting regular key work sessions that are innovative and engaging in order to achieve Support Plan goals.
- Create support plans for providing appropriate services based on on-going assessment and reflecting the services and resources available to enable customer to progress in their recovery.
- Ensuring ongoing assessment and management of risks associated with customers within an attitude of positive risk taking.
- Provide support and access to relevant services to enable customers to continue their recovery and empower customers to self-manage their medication regimes through individual re-enablement programmes and informed decision making.
- Undertake support work in partnership with external stakeholders to complement their interventions.
- Developing productive relationships with partner organisations to improve service outcomes.
- Demonstrate strong commitment to the functioning of the staff team and to support colleagues in providing a high level of service and safety to customers.
- Involving customers in the design, development and delivery of the service
- Adhering to lone working protocols and maintaining high levels of awareness in relation to the health and safety of yourself and colleagues.
- Ensuring Health and Safety policies and local protocols are adhered to at all times e.g. fire risk assessments, fire alarm checks etc.
- Being responsible for the handover of key information between shifts.
- Provide structured support and guidance to other front-line staff in their area of expertise.
- Lead groups and activities - offering a range of appropriate therapeutic and recovery focused interactions and activities.
- Adhering to all other policies and procedures. Engaging in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills.
- Undertaking any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as assigned by the Team Leader/ Manager.
- DBS within the last 12 months with adults and children s barred list (must have original copy)
- Extensive knowledge around safeguarding
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with customers with Autism/Challenging Behaviour/learning disabilities and supporting them in line with a PBS framework.
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults (SOVA) Level 3.
- Safeguarding Children & Young Adults (POCA) Level 3.
- Counter Fraud in the NHS.
- Information Governance, Data Protection, handling patient information, GDPR, Record keeping and Caldicott Protocols Training.
- Manual Handling Training.
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