Support Worker - Adult Supported Living (ID:674)

Swanton Care and Community; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Gateshead is seeking compassionate individuals to provide practical assistance and emotional support to people with learning disabilities and complex care needs. Your role will involve promoting well-being and dignity while performing general housekeeping and personal care tasks. Candidates should be enthusiastic and committed to supporting individuals in line with their support plans. Full training will be provided, and experience in the field is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience with learning disabilities and/or complex care preferred.
• Willingness to complete records and documents.
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical assistance and emotional support to individuals.
• Promote health and well-being of supported individuals.
• Perform general housekeeping and personal care duties.

Skills

Compassionate support

Enthusiasm

Dignity respect

Job description

The role

Provide practical assistance and emotional support to empower the people we support to achieve their goals and aspirations, respecting everyone’s individuality and enabling them to make appropriate choices to live the life they wish, in line with their individual support plans.

Promote the health, well-being, physical, emotional, cultural and spiritual beliefs of the people we support and ensure they are met in an inclusive way.

General housekeeping duties that can include shopping, domestic duties as well as elements of personal care.

As part of the role, you will need to be able to complete a range of records and documents.

Each person we support has 1 to 1 support.

Lone working and team-working.

About you

Are you enthusiastic, compassionate and committed to supporting people in a way which respects their dignity?

Experience of supporting people with learning disabilities and/or complex care is preferred but all training will be provided.

Here at Swanton Care , we are looking for people who share our core values and are able to apply these to the work that they do. At the heart of our ethos are five key words, these underpin the PRIDE we take in our services.

‘Potential, Responsibility, Integrity, Diversity, Empathy’