Reablement Support Worker

North Tyneside Council; New York; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Uniform

Phone

Travel time mileage

25 days holiday

Team support

Job summary

North Tyneside Council is seeking dedicated Support Workers for the Reablement Support Team to help customers regain independence with hands-on care in their own homes across North Tyneside.

You will work to personalised support plans, focusing on personal care, nutrition, home safety, and medication support, while collaborating with families and the team to achieve positive, strength-based outcomes. DBS enhanced disclosure is required.

Job description

Reablement Support are seeking dedicated and compassionate Support Workers who are passionate about supporting people to regain their independence. We're committed to delivering outstanding care where residents are treated with dignity, respect, and compassion and we're looking for people who share the same values in making a positive difference. As part of our highly regarded Reablement Support Team, you will provide hands-on care and support to customers in their own homes across North Tyneside. You will work to personalised support plans that enable customers to rebuild their independence in key areas such as managing and maintaining personal care, being appropriate clothed, managing and maintaining nutrition, making use of the home safely as well as medication support, following an illness/injury or change in health. You will take a personalised and collaborative approach, working closely with customers and their families to support strength based, goal orientated support plans. As a customer progresses through Reablement you will adapt to changes in support plans to achieve positive outcomes. Reablement focuses on what a customer can already do and supports in regaining essential skills as well as building confidence to live as independently as possible.

• Guaranteed 25 hours per week including an enhancement for working weekends and unsociable hours
• A uniform and mobile phone
• Paid travel time and mileage in between visits
• 25 days paid holiday per year increasing to 29 after 5 years
• Support from a great team, we have experienced staff that you can shadow and a real sense of team spirit and a fabulous work atmosphere
• Job satisfaction - the role focusses on helping people live their best life and the feeling of job satisfaction is second to none
• Full training and supervision and the opportunity to develop a career in care.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, and an Enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.