Home Care Worker

jobs24.co.uk; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated Integrated Urgent Care Team focused on supporting individuals in their community. This role involves providing essential care and interventions to help clients maintain their independence after hospital discharge. As a support worker, you will engage with diverse individuals, assisting them in overcoming challenges and enhancing their daily living skills. The position requires a valid driving license and a commitment to working flexible shifts across the community. If you are enthusiastic and motivated to make a real difference in people's lives, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Casual car allowance

Flexible shift patterns

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in a domiciliary care setting is preferred.
• Current valid driving license and access to a vehicle for work use.

Responsibilities

• Support service users to regain confidence and daily living skills.
• Work in a practical and positive way within a supportive team.

Skills

Domiciliary care experience

Motivational skills

Communication skills

Driving license

Job description

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated support workers to join our Integrated Urgent Care Team within our community team. The Integrated Urgent Care Team provides short-term interventions to maximize independence and responds to urgent/crisis situations to enable people to continue living in their own home for as long as possible. The team responds to patients discharged from hospital wards, A and E, and MAU (Medical Assessment Unit), assists in preventing inappropriate admissions to hospital, as well as supports those in crisis in the community.

The team is made up of staff from health and social care, working together to provide a holistic assessment and support plan to ensure outcomes are achieved and independence is maintained wherever possible. The team provides support to younger and older adults with varying degrees of disability, social complexities, and vulnerability living in the community.

Shifts are carried out over a seven-day rota including weekends and bank holidays; shift patterns are 07:30 - 15:30 or 14:00 - 22:00.

Please note that this service is based in the community, and travel will be an essential part of the role. Prospective applicants will be expected to travel across Tameside and Glossop.

As a key member of this busy but supportive team, you will be required to work in a practical and positive way to enable service users to regain confidence and to motivate them in regaining daily living skills.

This post is subject to a rota pattern working over 7 days a week and includes some weekend and bank holiday working. It is essential that you hold a current valid driving license and have access to a vehicle for work use, for which a casual car allowance will be paid.

Ideally, you should have substantial experience in a domiciliary care setting. Our employees' skills, experience, and knowledge are essential to our success, along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm, and motivation to be the best they can be.

This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.

This post is a designated customer-facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our citizens lead long, fulfilling, and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high-quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable, and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognize that our people drive our success and enable the organization to deliver on its vision, purpose, and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviors and are at the heart of everything that we do; we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity, and Engage.