Support Worker

NHS; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking caring individuals in Chippenham to assist customers with daily living skills. This role involves safeguarding health and wellbeing while providing essential home support. Candidates should exhibit a genuine passion for helping others and embrace flexibility in scheduling. Competitive salary of £25,989 to £26,824, plus benefits for qualifying shifts.

Qualifications

• Genuine passion for helping others.
• A flexible approach to staff rostering.

Responsibilities

• Support customers with daily living skills.
• Safeguard health, safety, and wellbeing of customers.
• Participate in staff development programs.
• Assist customers with mobility aids.

Job description

Salary:£25,989 - £26,824 (plus 10% unsocial hours for qualifying shifts)

Hours per week:37 hours

Main duties of the job

If you are passionate about making a real difference to peoples lives and looking to start your career in the care industry, this is the perfect opportunity for you. We believe in nurturing talent from within, offering extensive training, progression and diploma opportunities available.

Wiltshire Support at Home offers short-term service for hospital discharges and individuals needing support at home, as part of a rapid response. Their crucial role includes preventing, reducing, and delaying the necessity for long-term care. The service aids those recently discharged from the hospital or under the care of the Rapid Response Service, providing short to mid-term homecare support to promote independence.

We are seeking individuals with a genuine passion for helping others who are available on a rota basis between 7am to 10pm 365 days a year. Showcase your caring and friendly attitude. Embrace teamwork while thriving independently and be part of our vision to work with people in the community to live the best life they can!

About us

Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Thats why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.

Job responsibilities

• Work with customers to support them manage and maintain where possible their daily livingskills, including washing, dressing, meal preparation, and personal care
• Safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of customers as well as colleagues
• Take part in staff development programmes, assuming responsibility for own professionaldevelopment i.e. undertake all mandatory training relevant to the service and part of thetraining pathway for the role e.g. Care Certificate
• Assist customers with the use of mobility aids and assistive equipment where required
• Assist customers with moving and positioning, adhering to health & safety requirements aswell as organisational policy and procedures
• Contribute to daily communications, accurate record keeping, recording actions, interventionsand incidents in customers records
• Participate in regular team meetings and customer review meetings
• Ensure compliance with the Data Protection Act and maintain customer confidentiality andsecurity of information at all times
• Communicate effectively with the immediate team and other health and social careprofessionals as appropriate
• Participate in own supervisions, appraisals and objective setting
• Assist the team with general duties if required e.g. office filing, answering telephone calls etc
• Work as part of the team, offering a flexible approach to staff rostering
• Abide by the principles and practice set out in the staff handbook

Person Specification

Qualifications

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£25,989 to £26,824 a year(plus 10% unsocial hours for qualifying shifts)