Flexible-Shift Community Enablement Worker

Recruitment Hub; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 12,398,000 - 16,531,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pay from 8:00pm to 8:00am

Enhanced pay Sundays & Bank Holidays

Enhanced overtime pay

Mileage 45p per mile

Job summary

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking Relief Community Enablement Workers to support adults with disabilities in their own homes. You will help customers live independently, provide personal care, assist with daily activities, manage medication and liaise with families and external agencies based on care plans.

Open across 365 days with flexible shifts, the role offers enhanced pay for evenings, Sundays and Bank Holidays, mileage reimbursement and a strong commitment to safeguarding and

Qualifications

• Satisfactory clearance of an enhanced DBS check.
• Educated to GCSE or Equivalent
• Care Certificate (or willing to work towards)
• Level 2 or above in Health and Social Care or equivalent (or willing to work towards)
• Proven experience in health or care work
• Experience of delivering care services in a community-based setting
• Able to travel effectively to various locations, using a vehicle
• Demonstrate an interest in working in this area and the ability to undertake the role
• Good verbal and written communication skills. Sufficient to write clear, concise, and accurate reports and to enable effective communication with a number of agencies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to listen and interact effectively with and on behalf of customers and to react appropriately to a crisis situation
• Practical approach to resolving problems and achieving results
• Flexible, adaptable, and tolerant to meet the needs of the service
• Able to meet the physical requirements of the role
• Ability to attend, successfully complete and understand the need for mandatory training
• Able to inform customers on benefits and application systems
• Able to work within set procedures and systems
• Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs.
• Understanding of equality standards and diversity issues and their impact in social care services

Responsibilities

• To support people within their own home to live an independent life.
• With reference to the individual's care plan provide practical and emotional support to customers to help them maintain independent living.
• Assist customers with physical disabilities to carry out activities, hygiene routines and manage medication as directed within their care plans to help maintain health and wellbeing.
• Assist customers to undertake practical tasks to help maintain their physical wellbeing and/or improve their living conditions.
• With reference to the individual's care plan promote independence through the provision of information to customers and through liaison with carers, internal and external agencies.
• Part of your role will be to support people within their local community enabling them with volunteer placements, budgeting, social activities, and future planning of goals.
• You will be responsible for updating daily record sheets, any communication with outside agencies and ensuring that any changes to the individual's needs, are documented and reported to ensure that the care plan is a live document, whilst utilising departmental electronic record systems.
• Undertake risk assessments, manual handling, and medication assessments in order to safeguard customers and staff, as well as to meet service standards.
• You will be regularly reviewing the customers progress, monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the support plan whilst documenting adjustments where necessary.
• You will ensure that all changes within the persons care package are communicated back to managers.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Problem solving

Travel ability

Education

GCSE or equivalent

Care Certificate

Health & Social Care Level 2+

Job description

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking Relief Community Enablement Workers to support adults with disabilities in their own homes. You will help customers live independently, provide personal care, assist with daily activities, manage medication and liaise with families and external agencies based on care plans.

Open across 365 days with flexible shifts, the role offers enhanced pay for evenings, Sundays and Bank Holidays, mileage reimbursement and a strong commitment to safeguarding and