Support Worker

East Riding of Yorkshire Council; Bridlington; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is recruiting a Support Worker to assist a female client in Bridlington who has dementia. The role covers meal preparation, personal care, and domestic tasks across the client’s home and a nearby home.

You will help with dressing, hygiene, laundry and cleaning, and you’ll encourage social interaction and emotional support. The post requires a car and comfort with animals, as the client has a cat.

Qualifications

• Be motivated, proactive and able to work on their own initiative.
• Be patient, caring and understanding.
• Have good communication skills (clear and effective communication).
• Be able to build a positive relationship with the individual to both encourage and support them.
• Have previous experience caring for an individual with dementia.
• Must have use of own car.
• Be comfortable with animals to assist with the individual's 1 cat.

Responsibilities

• Meal preparation (breakfast and evening meal) and domestic tasks around such as laundry, cleaning the home and with cat litter maintenance and hygiene.
• Full personal care (help with dressing and appropriate dressing for the weather, personal hygiene, washing body, oral health)
• Encouraging social interaction and inclusion and providing emotional support.
• Female workers only.
• The role will work across both lady’s home and lady’s good friends home across the road.

Skills

Patience

Proactive

Communication

Empathy

Dementia care

Car owner

Animal-friendly

Job description

This is an external vacancy and is not employment with East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

The individual is female, 75 years old and resides in Bridlington. They require a dedicated and suitable person to support them due to having dementia.

They like/enjoy keeping things clean, neat and tidy, enjoys folding things and has a good sense of design.

About the role

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Meal preparation (breakfast and evening meal) and domestic tasks around such as laundry, cleaning the home and with cat litter maintenance and hygiene.
• Full personal care (help with dressing and appropriate dressing for the weather, personal hygiene, washing body, oral health)
• Encouraging social interaction and inclusion and providing emotional support.
• Female workers only.
• The role will work across both lady’s home and lady’s good friends home across the road.

Hours

4 hours per week across Saturdays and Sundays – 30 hour per AM / 30 mins Tea call / 1 hour per PM.

About the candidate

The suitable candidate must:

• Be motivated, proactive and able to work on their own initiative.
• Be patient, caring and understanding.
• Have good communication skills (clear and effective communication).
• Be able to build a positive relationship with the individual to both encourage and support them.
• Have previous experience caring for an individual with dementia.
• Must have use of own car.
• Be comfortable with animals to assist with the individual's 1 cat.

DBS/Reference checks will be required for this post – Cost to be met by the local authority.

The Direct Payments Support Service is an in‑house service provided by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council. The service promotes independent choice and inclusion, allowing our service users to employ their own care and support as needed. We support many individuals with varying abilities, assisting with advertising and recruitment for a range of roles including support workers, carers and personal assistants.

DBS/Medical check

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance check.

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