Personal Care Assistants for a young woman 24 hr/wk @ £13.74/hr in Morpeth - FTE - £26.8k - Morpeth - NE61
To provide support for 24 hours per week broken down into daily calls. To work with a young woman to enable her to access the community and support her independence.
We are currently looking to recruit Support Workers to provide support for a young woman who has various mental health diagnoses. The purpose of your role will be to enable her independence, support her to take part in activities she enjoys, and enable her to live in the way she would like.
Her diagnoses include mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, and dissociative episodes. Due to the complexities of this young woman’s mental health, it would be preferred that you have experience working within mental health or have personal experience of this. There is a mental health professional (CPN) involved, and you will provide support and guidance. There are also physical diagnoses including sleep apnoea, back pain, and asthma, so her condition and how she feels fluctuates each day. It might be that something has been planned but needs to change last minute, so you should be prepared for this. In these situations, there will be other ways to support, such as maintaining the home environment.
She is a friendly person and has various hobbies and interests. You should be confident and outgoing, happy to have a chat, and enjoy variation in your work. It is essential that you have experience supporting people with mental health diagnoses and experience working with adults in their own homes. There may be times when you need to contact various professionals for support in crisis situations; this will be discussed during the interview.
You will support with medication for which training will be given, ensure safety at home, and be aware of limitations on a bad day. She is able to do more on good days, and this can fluctuate from day to day. You will support her with going to the shops, meeting friends, and taking part in various activities such as going to the gym and out for food.
Each day will be different depending on what she wants to do, so you should be prepared to be flexible. We would also like the support workers to be able to suggest things to do out in the community, so you should be willing to be proactive in finding various activities to take part in.
We would prefer you to be a car driver with your own transport; however, this isn’t essential as public transport can be used. Expenses will be met by your employer.
Hours – 24 hours per week. Support required is broken down into calls – One hour morning calls Monday-Sunday: Monday (12pm-1pm), Wednesday (12pm-1pm), Friday (approx. 10:30am-3pm), Evening call 1.5 hours per day. Total – 24 hours per week.
Times can be flexible and will be discussed further at interview.
MAIN DUTIES
* Support with enabling independence
* Assist with taking part in activities and pursuing hobbies and interests
* Ensure safety when out and about
Person Specification
Successful applicants must:
* Ideally have experience working as a support worker with children or adults, especially with mental health diagnoses
* Have a positive understanding towards people with disabilities
* Have a genuine interest in working within social care
* Have a high degree of initiative
* Be punctual and reliable
* Be flexible
* Have a happy, positive, and caring nature
* Respect confidentiality
Car driver preferable and must have business insurance. An Enhanced DBS Check is required, cost to be met by the employer.
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