Support Worker

Tamfol; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Tamfol is seeking a dedicated Part-Time Support Worker to assist a client with brain injury living at home. The role involves one‑to‑one support, driving the client’s car for local and occasional longer journeys, and helping with light domestic tasks such as cleaning, cooking and personal care prompts.

Sleep‑in duties and flexible hours are included in a pattern across weekdays, weekends, and occasional holidays.

Qualifications

• Ability to read information in reports and present it clearly to the team.
• Ability to work on your own or as part of a team.
• Must have a full UK driving licence and be able to drive manual/automatic vehicles.
• Must be prepared to have business class insurance on own vehicle.
• Must be prepared to provide personal care if required.
• Knowledge or understanding of brain injury is desirable.
• Experience in community settings or people’s homes is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work with the client in his home and in the community.
• Enable participation in recreational activities, e.g. visiting farms and looking after fish.
• Assist with household tasks: ironing, washing, cleaning, hoovering.
• Provide light domestic duties like vacuuming and ironing.
• Act as driver for local and occasional longer journeys.
• Provide daytime, evening and overnight support within a 24‑hour package.
• Offer cover for staff holidays and sickness when needed.
• Follow the support plan and work with the client’s family and professionals.
• Undertake training and supervision as directed by the Case Manager.
• Maintain client confidentiality in all matters.

Skills

Reading reports

Self‑driven / unsupervised

UK driving licence

Business insurance on own vehicle

Personal care

Brain injury awareness

Community/home-based work

Job description

Post available: Part Time Support Worker – 63.25 hours per month averaged over four weeks (15.81 per week), including sleep-in duty.

Hours

Wednesday 2.30pm to Thursday 10am (including sleep-in)

Tuesday 5.45pm to Wednesday 10am (including sleep-in)

Saturday 9.45am to 6pm

Thursday 2.45pm to Friday 10am (including sleep-in)

Salary

£13.93 per hour weekdays, £14.49 p/h weekends, £11.44 p/h sleep in shift, double time on bank holidays

Interview date

TBC

About the Role

This part-time role is to join an established support team assisting our client to live as independently as possible in his own home and in the community. Although you’d be part of a wider and supportive team, you’d be working one-to-one with our client.

He’s a man in his mid 30’s who has a brain injury and epilepsy, and walks with a gait. He can be a little shy at first (and his speech can initially be a little hard to understand until you get to know him), but once he gets to know you, he’s an affable, caring and easy to talk to.

He loves farm animals – especially cows and pigs – and enjoys visiting farms and cattle shows. He likes to recycle, and he has a tank for tropical fish.

Our client also enjoys visits to Manchester airport to see the planes; he’s a fan of transport in general and is always very keen to go to train stations.

There will be domestic duties to perform, like cleaning and cooking. However, he doesn’t need any personal care – just prompts to shave, take a shower and brush his teeth, for example.

You will be required to drive our client’s car and be competent in driving both manual and automatic vehicles. This means that it is essential that you have a full driving licence and are a confident driver. You will also need to have business insurance on your own vehicle. Most drives with our client will be short local journeys but longer drives are possible when he goes on holiday.

Job Description/Specifications

1. 1) To work with our client, a man who has a brain injury, in his own home and in the community.
2. 2) To enable him to participate in recreational and leisure activities, both at home and in the community – such as looking after his fish (including cleaning large tank out), visiting farms, doing arts and crafts.
3. 3) To work alongside him with some household tasks, like ironing, washing, cleaning, hoovering.
4. 4) To carry out light domestic duties in his/her house as appropriate, such as vacuuming, washing, and ironing.
5. 5) To act as a driver, using his vehicle mainly locally, and further afield if needed e.g. to the Lake District, Cleethorpes, Bakewell etc
6. 6) To provide daytime, evening, and overnight support on a weekend within a 24-hour support package.
7. 7) To have availability enough to offer occasional cover for staff holidays and sickness.
8. 8) To aid and support the client as directed by the Case Manager/Team Leader.
9. 9) To follow an agreed approach, and use strategies documented in the support plan, working in collaboration with the client’s family, case manager, team leader and any other professionals when required.
10. 10) To undertake training and supervision as agreed by the Case Manager.
11. 11) To ensure client confidentiality in all matters relating to the client.
12. 12) To provide assistance and support as directed by the Case Manager/Team Leader, and to be responsible to the client via the Case Manager/Team Leader.
13. 13) Any other appropriate and reasonable task in relation to the employment as agreed with the client and Case Manager.
14. 14) To provide daily ongoing support/prompts to assist the client to undertake personal care and domestic activities.
15. 15) To accompany the client on holidays and weekends away when required.

About you

Essential Qualifications/Experience

• You must be able to read information contained in reports, and also present information clearly and accurately when communicating with the team via emails and reports.
• You must have the ability to work on your own unsupervised, or as part of a team.
• You must have a full UK driving licence and be a confident driver of both manual/automatic vehicles.
• You must be prepared to have business class insurance on your own vehicle if you have the use of one for work.
• You must be prepared to provide personal care if and when required.
• To have a knowledge or level of understanding around brain Injury.
• To have experience of working in a community setting or people’s own homes.

Desirable Skills and Aptitudes

1. 1) You should have a non – judgmental approach with the ability to see things from other peoples’ perspectives, and be respectful of their lifestyle choices.
2. 2) A calm communication style with clear pronunciation when speaking.
3. 3) An understanding of the ‘enabling approach’ and the ability to judge when direction needs to be offered to the client.
4. 4) A sense of humour is vital, along with an understanding of appropriate boundaries, with a mature, confident, and professional approach.
5. 5) To be able to integrate an understanding of brain injury – displaying empathy but with a non-patronising approach.
6. 6) The ability to follow the support plan, the case manager/team leader and guidance, and to accept feedback.
7. 7) To display an understanding that the workplace is also the client’s home.
8. 8) Have flexibility and a willingness to step in and help the client and family when the situation demands it.
9. 9) Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with a variety of people involved with the client.
10. 10) To be self-motivated and able to work unsupervised with the client
11. 11) Be conscientiousness, have good timekeeping and good record keeping, using paper documentation and/or a laptop.
12. 12) Ability to identify and manage potential risks, to safeguard the client.
13. 13) The ability to use initiative and adapt to different situations and/or learn new skills.

Pay and Conditions

• You will be employed by the client via their Deputy.
• You will be line managed by the Team Leader on a day-to-day basis and overall by the Case Manager on behalf of the Deputy.
• The contract allows for 5.6 weeks paid leave and 2 weeks (paid) sick leave after successful completion of 6-month probationary period
• You will receive initial and on-going training, plus regular supervision from the Team leader and Case Manager.
• Rates of pay: £13.93 p/h weekday hours, £14.49 p/h weekend hours, £11.44 p/h sleep in shift, and double the hourly rate on bank holidays.