We’re hiring for Lead Support Workers in Devizes
Could you help someone to live a full life? Join Brandon as a Lead Support Worker, where you’ll provide excellent day-to-day support to individuals with exceptionally complex needs, helping them overcome barriers. Key to this role is respecting people’s preferences and choices and enabling their fullest participation in the life of their community as valued citizens.
As part of a supportive team, you’ll need the resilience to support individuals whose behaviour may be considered challenging. The support you’ll provide will be centred around each person’s values, preferences, and needs, which could include developing daily living skills, accessing a wider community, personal care, and medication needs.
Benefits:
* On-going training and career development including professional qualifications
* Contributory pension
* We cover the cost of DBS checks
* Rota's are planned in advance
* Access to Wagestream, allowing you to track your basic salary and additional earnings throughout the month and access a portion of those earnings before your monthly pay date
* Shopping discounts including Blue Light card, EE perks, and Costco membership
* Successfully 'recommend a friend' to join us and you'll receive a thank-you payment
* Access to wellbeing helplines
* Health Cash Plan
You will:
* Be a confident problem solver and creative thinker with good communication skills
* Have the resilience to overcome challenges
* Be an innovative problem solver and willing to try new activities
* Have experience working with people with a learning disability, including supporting those whose behaviour may be considered challenging (desirable)
* Have experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams
* Previous management experience (desirable but not essential)
* Hold a Diploma in Health and Social Care Level 2 or equivalent (Level 3 is desirable)
* Hold a full UK driving licence
Your responsibilities:
* Support individuals in all aspects of their daily life, enabling their fullest participation in the life of their community
* Support people to achieve their personal outcomes
* Be assigned area(s) of lead responsibility; for example, autism, personality disorder, speech and language, positive behaviour management, psychiatry, or health
* Liaise with external professionals and devise support plans and risk assessments relating to your lead area
* Communicate this specialist knowledge to colleagues to produce a coherent and integrated package of support
* In the future, you may line manage support workers
Brandon Trust works alongside people of different abilities so they can create opportunities and feel empowered to live the life they want.
All support workers work flexible shifts to provide a 24/7 service. Successful applicants for this role will require an enhanced DBS check.
We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community.
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