Purpose
Do you want the autonomy and freedom to enhance the lives of the People We Support?
You will deliver high quality support/care to the residents and fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion, and control on a daily basis in accordance with CQC regulations and standards.
Locations & Travel
Ashfield House, Stourbridge
The role will be based at Ashfield House in Stourbridge. As part of the role you will be required to transport the People We Support (vehicle provided) so you will need to hold a full UK driving licence.
About Ashfield Gardens
Over the years, the community has grown considerably, and now includes Ashfield Social Farm & Garden, a five-acre plot on the edge of the town providing day opportunities; Ashfield House, the Trust’s only residential care home for adults with complex needs, and we still provide supported living/floating support to many people who live independently in our properties across the locality. The Stourbridge Community currently supports approximately 120 adults and has over 70 staff and several volunteers across the three services.
Ashfield Gardens is a five-acre site on the edge of Stourbridge. It’s a unique and caring organic garden facility, offering a variety of day placements for people we support in a semi-rural setting. Ashfield Gardens is a mixed site, with poultry, horses, and horticultural areas.
The food produced goes to support Camphill Village Trust housing in the area, and surplus is sold to the local community.
We also have a large kitchen not far from the garden where we provide opportunities to gain cookery skills with many of the ingredients sourced from our own organic garden.
Duties & Responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
1. Working under the direction of the Team Leader, plan and provide support and care to foster the wellbeing and development of residents in accordance with their person-centred support and care plan, recording and reviewing progress as directed, so that residents can fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion and control by, for example, supporting residents to:
encourage and support the residents to maintain clean, tidy and welcoming living environment
support residents to use appropriate laundry equipment so they can be enabled to do their laundry and clothing, so they have suitable and clean clothing to wear
plan, shop and prepare healthy and wholesome meals alongside the residents and taking into account their choices and wishes
support residents to be healthy by assisting them to arrange and attend medical appointments
enable residents to look after their finances by supporting them on an individual basis to budget, monitor their finances and access benefits
support and encourage residents to maintain an active and supportive social life taking into account individual choices and wishes
access training, work and support
2. Working under the direction of the Team Leader, provide personal care to residents where required and appropriate as part of their support and care plan (eg. bathing, hair washing etc) and where the appropriate registration is in place.
3. Working under the direction of the Team Leader, ensure residents receive their housing related support by enabling residents to look after their finances (developing appropriate budgeting and financial training including support to access benefits and maintain them and assist them to understand and maintain their tenancy) and assisting residents to access services from the landlord including to access maintenance services and reporting non-functioning safety and security measures.
4. Undertake such other tasks as required by the Team Leader to develop and maintain the high quality of service required and fulfil the community’s vision.
5. Work within the community’s policies and procedures and code of conduct and actively promote the equality and diversity and the human right of residents to realise independence, choice, inclusion and control.
6. Undertake training and continuous professional development in accordance with the needs of the service and the residents.
7. Undertake personal development to develop and understanding of our philosophy and values and how these inform and guide practice in the key responsibilities of the role
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
• Previous experience of working within a care or support setting, ideally with adults with learning disabilities (applicants without this experience will need to be able to evidence the competencies to be considered).
• Previous experience of working in anthroposophical organisations providing social care is desirable but not essential.
• Working knowledge of risk assessment, health and safety, support and care plans, safeguarding, person centred planning, equalities and human rights desirable.
• Being supportive of our values and philosophy and our approach to building community is desirable for this role.
• A current, valid (minimum 2 years) manual UK driving licence is essential.
Qualifications
• Reasonable general education (evidence of numeracy and literacy).
• Level 2 or 3 Health and Social Care Diploma or an equivalent qualification is highly desirable (applicants without a social care qualification will need to be able to evidence the competencies to be considered).
Key Competencies
* Respecting and understanding others
Is able to understand issues from others’ viewpoints and builds an atmosphere of trust and openness so that others are treated with respect and dignity without discriminating or stereotyping.
Tailors their approach depending on who they are with and acts as an advocate for people.
* Effective communication
Is able to communicate effectively with others through the use of verbal and non-verbal communication methods.
Recognises the needs of others when seeking agreement to their plans, adapting their communicate style to match the situation.
* Working with and developing others
Is an active member of the team, working cooperatively with others and assisting when they need support.
Provides direction and empowers others to help them achieve personal learning and development targets.
* Results and quality focus
Is conscientious, strives to complete work to high standards and looks to improve and maintain the quality of performance in themselves and others.
Completes work with the best interests of others in mind.
* Problem solving and decision making
Is able to collect, interpret and evaluate information to develop a deep understanding of a problem, explores alternative ways of resolving problems including new possibilities.
Makes timely and well considered decisions, is aware the impact their decisions may have and willing to make difficult but necessary decisions to improve the practice.
* Resilience to change and challenges
Is open to change and embracing new developments/initiatives, adapts well in new and unfamiliar situations responding to changing plans quickly, works independently without direction, is resilient and copes well in emergency situations.
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.