Watford MENCAP is an organisation based in Watford, who are committed to providing high quality social care and support to people with learning disabilities and their families. We are passionate about enabling people with learning disabilities and their families to make the most of life, to enjoy choice and control over their own lives, enabling them to fulfil their life ambitions.
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate individual to join our team as a Support Worker at Thorpedale, our residential home in Chorleywood. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in working collaboratively with the people we support, their families and friends, as well as other social and health care professionals.
Key Responsibilities:
1. You will assist the Manager in supporting a range of people with a learning disability to maintain standards set by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Hertfordshire County Council (HCC).
2. The job is very varied and will involve acting as a Key Worker for individual clients. In this role, you will support clients to plan and achieve their goals, review and implement support plans, support clients to attend their own review, liaise with professionals, and help individuals manage their money, as well as delivery of direct support.
This means a flexible "can do" attitude, good IT skills, alongside an eye for detail, emotional resilience and being able to juggle a broad and diverse workload are all really important in this role. In return, you will find this an extremely rewarding job where you will be making a real difference to peoples' lives on a daily basis.
£12.60 per hour + an additional payment of £63.70 per sleep in*
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