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Support Worker (Nights) Ascot House Intermediate Care Unit, Trafford
Location: Trafford, United Kingdom
Job Category: -
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference:
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Job Views:
5
Posted:
30.03.2025
Expiry Date:
14.05.2025
Job Description:
Salary: £23,893 - £25,979 per annum (£17,367 to £18,806 pro rata) with a 20% allowance for working unsociable hours
Contract type: Fixed term for one year
About us:
Ascot House Intermediate Care Unit supports Patients with therapy rehab goals within the 24-hour setting. We provide support with personal care, medications and therapy plans for people who have experienced recent illness or injury. Our focus is to support our Patients to regain their confidence and independence. Patients are given the time and space they need to progress with their goals to enable them to return home.
The team consists of 68 Support Workers, Assistant Practitioners, 4 Senior Support Workers, and 4 Deputy Managers plus the Registered Manager. We work as a multi-disciplinary team working alongside Nurses, Doctors, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Social Workers, which gives the service user a holistic assessment of their needs.
About you:
Your style and approach will reflect your values and you will be passionate about what you do, always striving to improve things, valuing and respecting others. You will take pride in your work, always getting things right the first time and learning from when things do go wrong. You will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.
You will have good communication skills with both service users and other professionals.
About the role:
Support Workers provide support to patients who are undertaking a period of rehab or in the assessment unit helping build a picture of a person’s needs in anticipation of discharge. The role requires you to be part of an integrated team working alongside our health colleagues. You will provide support with personal care. Good recording skills are essential as the record you make forms part of a person's discharge plan. We help people regain confidence with mobility and support them to lift their mood after sometimes a long period of time in hospital. The Support Worker strives towards promoting and maximizing the independence of Service Users and empowering and enabling individuals to make informed choices whilst living their lives to the full within the community.
About the benefits:
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centered and values-based organisation that promotes a positive culture. Your opinions matter, so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford.
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link: Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
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