Weekend Support Worker - Saturday & Sunday 12noon-10pm.

As a passionate and caring Support Worker, this is a wonderful opportunity to make a real difference in people's lives. Over the winter months demands on the health care services increase. With your support, those pressures will be significantly reduced to ensure service users receive the essential care and help they need.

You will assist in providing a reactive, focused and flexible support to adults, either following a hospital stay to enable early discharge when clinical needs have been met, or to those living in the community to prevent hospital admission.

It is important that you deliver a person-centred service to enable service users to achieve their personal outcomes. These may include enhanced quality of life, increased confidence and independence, and an improved sense of choice and control and include practical and emotional support.

Essential:

* Health and Social Care Level 2 or 3;
* Able to travel around the area as required;
* Driving licence with access to own vehicle (another vehicle will also be provided);
* Participation in a multidisciplinary team environment;
* Willingness to work flexible hours;
* Ensure inclusive practice and promotes diversity;
* Willingness to undertake training as required.

Duties include:

* Recording and reporting of activities undertaken and highlighting any changes in a service users condition and ensure that appropriate actions are taken if a service users health deteriorates;
* Provide assistance to a person returning from hospital or medical facility and those identified by local health professionals as being at risk of a further decline in health or without a support mechanism;
* Provide on-going assessment of service users needs, develop a support plan to meet these needs and provide appropriate support to achieve positive outcomes;
* Liaising with health, housing and other professionals to ensure that the needs of the individual are consistently met;
* Ensure as safe as possible a living environment for service users through carrying out risk assessments and providing information/advice whilst respecting their individual dignity, choice and rights;
* Carry out follow-up welfare checks and visits as required and assist service users with their activities to re-enable their daily living skills for up to the maximum support period;
* Carry out needs and risk assessments with service users, liaising with referrers as necessary;
* Provide practical and emotional support such as: mobility aid loans, transport, companionship, assistance with shopping, helping access to groups and activities;
* Signpost to further support available - liaising with Community Connectors, external organisations, partners and voluntary and community sector colleagues.

Weekend Support Worker - Saturday & Sunday 12noon-10pm. This is a temporary role that requires an immediate start once satisfactory references have been received.

The successful applicant will be subject to Disclosure checks through the Disclosure and Barring Service.



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