Female Support Worker

Creative Support; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Support are currently looking to add a Support Worker to our supported living service in Hockley, Birmingham. We aim to recruit enthusiastic and energetic individuals who will deliver person-centred support to tenants, helping them engage with their local community and daily living in their own homes and in the community.

We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and value warmth, compassion and inclusion.

Qualifications

• No formal experience required, values and attitude matter.
• Ability to deliver person-centred support.
• Commitment to dignity, respect and inclusivity.

Responsibilities

• Support service users in meeting cultural and spiritual needs.
• Advise and support service users with tenancy management and home safety.
• Respect privacy and dignity while promoting independence.
• Encourage service users to express needs and concerns.
• Enable choices and participation in planning and decision making.
• Contribute to reviews with verbal and written reports and attend planning meetings.

Skills

Empathy

Enthusiasm

Communication

Teamwork

Cultural awareness

Job description

Creative Support are currently looking to add a Support Worker to our supported living service in Hockley, Birmingham.

We are looking for enthusiastic, resourceful and energetic support worker who is well motivated, hardworking and keen to join our friendly team. You will deliver person-centred approach to support the tenants to take part in all aspects of everyday life and to engage and participate with their local communities. You will provide support to individuals from an Afro-Caribbean background who also have learning disabilities/Autism and mental health needs. Although previous experience is not essential, you will demonstrate the values that are essential for a role of this nature such as warmth, compassion and unconditional positive regard. The role will be support individuals in their own home as well as in the community.

Due to the nature of this service we would welcome and actively encourage applicants with a background of the global majority to apply for this role.

Gender is considered to be an occupational requirement. – Equality Act 2010

Support Worker Duties:

• To support service users in meeting their cultural and spiritual needs and in expressing their personal identity
• To advise and support service users in all aspects of managing their tenancy and maintaining the safety, hygiene and comfort of their own home
• To respect the service user’s right to privacy and to ensure that their dignity is maintained at all times. To advise, encourage and support service users so as to maximise their self-care and independent living skills
• To encourage and support service users in expressing their needs, views and concerns.
• To enable service users to make choices and decisions and to participate as fully as possible in planning and decision making processes
• To contribute to service users’ reviews, through the provision of verbal and written reports and by attending Support Planning/Person centred planning and review meetings