Camphill Village Trust is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental ill health support. Our focus on humanity and nature was inspired by our past and remains as key to the Trust’s ethos today. This is reflected in our focus on social and green care integration, valuing everyone’s contribution, enabling personal pathways to development, celebrating the changing seasons, and respecting the rhythm of natural life. We operate in both rural and urban communities, building on our care (social) farming legacy. Our historical focus on enabling potential for people with support needs through farming, organic horticulture and enterprise centred on nature and traditional skills, continues to play to our strengths.
Do you want the autonomy and freedom to enhance the lives of the people we support?
We have an opening for you to join us as a Team Leader within the Care and Support Team. The purpose of the role is to provide autonomous assistance to the people we support to fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion, and control.
Location & Travel
Community-based
This role will be based at our Delrow Community in Watford.
Duties & Responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
* Plan and organise the delivery of care and support by your team.
* Ensure the people you support receive care and support in accordance with their person-centred needs assessments, support plans and risk assessments.
* Encourage and support people to maintain a clean, tidy, welcoming living environment.
* Support people to use appropriate laundry equipment enabling them to do their laundry and look after their clothing.
* Plan, shop and prepare healthy and wholesome meals alongside the people you support, considering their choices and wishes.
* Support people to maintain health and well-being by assisting them to arrange and attend medical appointments.
* Support and encourage those you support to maintain an active and supportive social life considering individual choices and wishes.
* Ensure the people supported receive their housing related support by enabling them to look after their finances.
* Assist people with personal care, where the appropriate registration is in place, or arrange where required (e.g. bathing, hair washing etc).
* Liaise professionally with the parents of those you support, social workers and others.
* Support, supervise and direct support workers to provide a high quality of care and support.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
* You’ll have social care sector (adult care services for people with learning disabilities and ideally supporting people) experience for at least 1 year.
* You’ll be a confident communicator with good verbal and written skills.
* You will treat others with respect, dignity, honesty and equality and recognise that they may have different viewpoints, beliefs or values.
Personal Attributes
* You’ll probably feel that you’re ready to progress and are looking for the opportunity to take a higher level of responsibility.
* You have a passion for helping others live a fulfilling and interesting life.
* You’ll be ready to take responsibility for a number of Support Workers.
* You’ll be responsible for ensuring that care and support is of a high standard, focused on person centred outcomes and delivered within budget.
* You’ll be able to use a variety of methods and styles when communicating with others in a clear and mutually positive manner.
Education
* You’ll have a good general education, good numeracy and literacy skills; it’s not essential for you to have any qualifications as we will support you in gaining these.
* You will have a general knowledge of IT skills.
Key Employment Terms
Salary: £15.33 per hour
Location: Delrow Community, Watford
Hours: 37.5 hours Monday to Sunday (some shift rotation).
Standard auto-enrolment pension scheme, with the option to contribute 10% of gross salary for a 6% contribution by the employer.
Employee assistance scheme that is also available to your immediate family.
Death in Service benefits: payments made to your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen.
Once you join us, you'll be eligible to benefit from "Charity Discounts" where you can enjoy reductions from lots of differing retailers and service providers.
The appointment is subject to a 6-month probation period.
Camphill Village Trust is an equal opportunity employer.
Camphill Village Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant pre-employment checks including a DBS check.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £29,893.50 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Employee discount
* Life insurance
* On-site parking
Schedule:
* 10 hour shift
* 12 hour shift
* 8 hour shift
* Day shift
* Monday to Friday
* Night shift
* Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
* Watford, WD25 8DJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
* Do you have at least 1 years experience in the social care sector (adult care services for people with learning disabilities and ideally supporting people)?
* Please give details of your right to work status and expiry date.
Work authorisation:
* United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 28/11/2024
Reference ID: CAM1056836
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