This is a role as a Female Support Worker at Elysium Healthcare's Holkham House facility in Redhill, Surrey. The primary responsibilities are to provide care and support to individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and challenging behaviors, assisting them to live more independently and lead a full and valued life. The role requires excellent communication skills, empathy, compassion, and the ability to handle challenging situations with a positive and professional approach.
Main duties of the job
As a Female Support Worker, you will be part of an inclusive and supportive team that works together to provide care and support to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will use your knowledge, skills, and experience as a Support Worker with a background in Learning Disabilities and Autism to help the residents lead a valued and fulfilled life. This can be a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. However, it is highly rewarding to see the progress and improvements in the residents' lives due to your support.
Job responsibilities
Join Holkham House in Redhill, Surrey, as a Support Worker and provide care for people with learning disabilities, Autism and behaviors which may be seen as challenging; where you’ll support and encourage them to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently.
You’ll be great with people – a real ‘people person’, able to communicate effectively – explaining yourself clearly in the right tone to suit the situation and be really good at understanding others (behaviors and expressions, as well as vocal). Having a good sense of humour and resilience, and a willingness to help residents with their personal hygiene are also important.
What you will be doing
You will join an inclusive, supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. Whether you have experience as a Care Assistant or Support Worker, you will use your knowledge and skills to help support people lead a valued and fulfilled life.
Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will use your excellent communication skills and experience as a Support Worker with a background in Learning Disabilities & Autism to provide care and support people through their care pathway. It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week. You’ll work 35 hours per week, working 7 hours a day with shift patterns of 7am-2.30pm and 2.30pm-10pm, with weekends on a rota basis, so flexibility is a must.
Where you will be working
Location: Holkham House, Asylum Arch Road, Redhill Surrey, RH1 6JJ
This specialist service is designed for those individuals with a learning disability who require a high level of support to live within a community setting and will continue to require this longer term. Clients may be transitioning from children’s residential services, education, or moving out of the family home. We are also experienced in successfully managing clients moving from services where their placements may have broken down or where their needs are no longer being met.
The aim of the service is to encourage individuals to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently through a programme of active community engagement, developing meaningful social networks and developing robust coping strategies.
The home has ten full en-suite bedrooms, two lounges and a large garden. Located in Redhill in Surrey, there are an excellent range of facilities and amenities close by.
Redhill has direct train access to London and Brighton and the M25 and M23 motorways are 3 miles away.
In this role you will:
* Assist our female residents efficiently
* Hold a valid UK driving licence (preferred to assist with community visits)
* Have strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
* Be willing to support residents with personal hygiene
* Have excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
* Deal with challenging behaviours
* Have a positive and professional approach
* Be reliable, flexible, hard-working and honest
* Be local or within commutable distance
You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time. 20-hour Student and Skilled Worker Visa's cannot be accepted.
What you will get
* Annual salary of £22,113
* The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
* Free meals and parking
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
* Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
* Pension contribution to secure your future.
* Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
* Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* You should have experience as a Care Assistant or Support Worker, with knowledge and skills in providing care for people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. Strong empathy, a caring and compassionate nature, excellent communication skills, and the ability to handle challenging behaviors are essential.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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