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Fessey House is not your “traditional” care home.
Our 68 bed home comprises of 6 individual purpose built units, each of which include a kitchen, lounge and dining room.
Our service users are aged 65+, all with a cognitive impairment such as Dementia. It is a unique, modern environment, recently extended, with vast landscaped gardens and communal activity rooms for our residents to enjoy.
Fessey House aims to provide a supported living environment where older people can feel safe, secure and free to live their lives as independently as possible.
Privacy, dignity and the right to make choices are paramount in our approach to providing the highest quality service for those who choose to make Fessey House their home.
The service we provide is designed to meet the needs of each individual in such a way as to provide them with the opportunity to maintain as much control over their own lives as possible.
We pride ourselves on the person-centred approach we have for supporting both our individuals and their families.
Your next role
As a Support Worker, you will complement our current friendly team, providing practical, emotional and physical support for older people living with dementia and rehab for service users.
Fessey House also offers a Discharge to Assess and respite service. Where you will have the opportunity to work with multidisciplinary groups which include Social Workers, Physio Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Nursing teams, allowing you to gain valuable experience and insight in your career development.
As a Support Worker, you will participate in the assessment and care/support planning process while continuously assessing our service users' needs and monitoring the aims, objectives and outcomes of their individual plans (including administering prescribed medications).
A requirement for this role is that you are aware and comply with Health & Safety, Manual Handling, COSHH, Food Hygiene, Fire, First Aid and Accident/Incident policies as set down by the organisation.
Full training will be given on site to allow you to develop in the role and become a confident care worker.
You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).
Working with us
We offer a mixture of shift patterns including “earlies” (8:00am start) and “lates” (9:30pm finish) on a rolling 2 week rota with a requirement to work every other weekend.
Fessey House is located on Brookdene in Haydon Wick, easily accessible by bus between Orbital Shopping Park and Park North on the number 5 service or between Taw Hill and Middle Wichel on the number 11 service.
Your next Package
We have free parking on site, generous holiday entitlement, comprehensive Learning and Development programmes, an excellent local government pension and sickness schemes, and many other benefits like discounts on shopping, eating out and entertainment, Health and Beauty, to name a few of our staff benefits.
We also have an Employee Assistance Programme and App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, and other expert advice.
Your next steps
Download the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application; you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.
For further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Sharron Black, email sblack@swindon.gov.uk
Interviews will be held every Wednesday, this may be before the closing date.
As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities.
If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk
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