Support Worker

Job Category : Social and Healthcare Unqualified

Location : Lombard Community Flats, Nottingham Community Housing Association

Start Date : Immediate Start

Salary: £10.42

Support service users/tenants to express themselves and make informed choices and decisions about their lives in a way that respects their dignity and rights.

Devise and implement individual care and/or support plans with risk assessments that are not risk averse. These may include one or more of the following examples:

Living as independently as possible 

Maintaining good health and hygiene, administering medications and personal care e.g. dressing, washing, shaving and going to the toilet 

Accessing work, education or training

Enjoying leisure time, activities and cultural beliefs in the community

Keeping in touch with family and friends and making new friends

Key work named service users 

Carry out or assist in cooking and other domestic/cleaning tasks.

Follow and review care and/or support plans with the service user and record progress of plans 

Assist in the delivery of support to service users who may present behavioural challenges.

Key holding including coordinating other shift staff, administering medications and handling money

Assume responsibility for safeguarding adults and/or children who have needs for care and support, are experiencing, or are at risk of, abuse or neglect, and as a result of those needs are unable to protect themselves against the abuse or neglect or the risk of it.

Maintain service user records through NCHA’s IT systems or paper records; sharing confidentially with work colleagues and other relevant people as appropriate to provide consistent care and support.

Maintain Health and Safety and day-to-day records of financial transactions and administration; using NCHA job specific IT/ technical systems.

Enable service users to make inf Support Worker ormed choices through joint reviews of Care and/or Support planning and recorded risk assessments.

Maintain a safe and healthy physical environment for service users and colleagues; complying with current infection control policies and procedures and completing relevant Health and Safety training

Respond to health and safety issues; implementing emergency procedures where necessary.

Work on rota/shift system, including Bank Holidays and weekends and which may include night-time working and sleeping-in duties.

Adhere to mandatory vaccination requirements for the role; providing evidence of exemptions where applicable.

Mental Health Support Worker based in Newark Nottinghamshire.  

Our aim is to support service users to maximise their potential to live independently and identify a wider support network to sustain this when they have moved on. As a brief overview, these duties may include but are not limited to:

•          Working alongside core professionals to identify the support needs and risks including writing and reviewing support plans

•          Being a great listener and providing emotional support 

•          Helping with practical support and domestic duties (e.g. budgeting, shopping, cleaning, cooking)

•          Supporting to identify appropriate community based activities including social support and access work, education or training.

•          Working alongside your team to achieve positive outcomes for the service users.

There will be periods of lone working at this site.