Care Worker

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Hornsea; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Granville Court in England is recruiting Band 2 Care Workers to support residents with learning disabilities and complex health needs. The role offers induction, training, and proven NHS benefits with enhanced leave and unsocial hour payments. Staff are supported to develop skills and deliver dignified, compassionate care.

Applicants may join a compassionate, multidisciplinary team led by nurses and care staff, with opportunities for flexible working arrangements and bank hours.

Qualifications

• Awareness of health and safety at work.
• Awareness of issues relating to supporting individuals with profound learning disabilities.
• Care Certificate or NVQ 2 in Health or Social Care.
• Standard IT Skills.

Responsibilities

• Awareness of health and safety in the workplace.
• Care for individuals with learning disabilities and complex health needs.
• Provide compassionate daily living support to residents.
• Work under guidance of registered nurses and care teams.
• Be flexible for varied shifts and hours.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Care and compassion

Learning disabilities care

Standard IT skills

Education

Care Certificate or NVQ 2 in Health or Social Care

Job description

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Do you want to make a difference? Would you like to be part of an exciting development at Granville Court?

You would be joining us at an exciting time for the home, and you could be part of us building a brighter future. Granville Court is unique within the Trust's portfolio of services in that it is a person's home. We also offer respite to families from across the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull.

We are delighted to be able to offer, following a review, a number of opportunities for Band 2 Care Workers to join our amazing team at Granville Court.

If you have experience in a residential or nursing home setting, or working with adults with PMLD, and would like to enhance your skills further, then this could be the right opportunity for you. We offer a very attractive pay package for experienced Care Workers, including unsocial hours payments. We will also consider any flexible working requests.

It is not essential that you have experience in care; rather, we are looking for individuals with the enthusiasm to make a difference. You will be well supported in developing the skills required to enhance and support our residents' daily lives.

We will also consider applications from staff interested in bank hours only.

Main duties of the job

• This is an opportunity to not only join this unique home but also to belonging to an NHS origination with attractive benefits including supportive induction to the home, training both mandatory and bespoke, annual leave entitlement, enhancement for working unsocial hours etc
• By joining our home, you will have the opportunity every day to make a difference to the lives of individuals who have a profound and multiple learning disability who also have associated complex health care needs.
• Our ethos is that everyone has the right to live a life well lived and loved and you would be joining an extremely compassionate, kind and caring team in ensuring this ethos is provided in a dignified and respectful way.
• You will be working under the guidance and support of specialist registered nurse, healthcare assistants, activity coordinators and colleges who together ensure that our residents never lose their sense of individuality in both personality and care delivery.
• Every day is different, and your role can and will be as varied as the persons needs require however this only adds to the rewards of working at the home.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information regarding this role, please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Awareness of health and safety at work
• Awareness of issues relation to supporting individuals with a profound learning disability
• Care certificate or relevant work both paid or unpaid in a care delivery environment or willingness to undertake further study.
• Standard IT Skills
• Care Certificate or NVQ 2 in Health or Social care

Experience

• Experience of working in a care setting or with the public in either paid or voluntary setting
• Experience of working with people with a learning disability

Skills and Competencies

• Able to demonstrate good interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate to work with care and compassion
• Ability to work with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities for there whole journey of life.

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.