SUPPORT WORKER - SHEFFIELD (S13) inSheffield inSheffield PUBLISHED 16 DEC 2023
Affinity Trust rYu8f0kC
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Job Purpose
To support people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives, ensuring that they have maximum opportunities and choice for developing new skills and leading fulfilling, varied, are valued and live socially inclusive lifestyles where their rights, dignity and safety is protected.
Key Responsibilities
1. To identify and develop with each person an outcome based support plan, risk assessment and person centered plan which are reviewed and updated regularly
2. To assist the people we support with routine personal and domestic tasks, including personal care, household tasks and cleaning and promote a healthy lifestyle when shopping, meal planning, cooking and choosing activities
3. To monitor and promote each person's health and well being, ensuring that each person has a Health Action Plan, that medical help is sought when needed, dental, eye, hearing and other check-ups or treatment are undertaken and that changes inhealth and wellbeing are reported
4. To assist the people we support to participate in their chosen social, educational, leisure and sporting activities in the local community, taking into account their culture, faith, gender and sexuality and where desired, to support individuals to access volunteering or employment opportunities
5. To assist the person to improve his/her knowledge, skills and abilities through planned learning activities and experiences
6. To enable the people we support to keep and make new friends and keep in contact with family, friends and people in the neighbourhood and develop a circle of support
7. To enable the people we support to participate in the running of the service, offering meaningful choices and supporting them to make decisions which affect them and other
8. To administer medication when required, in accordance with policies and procedures and after completion of medication assessment
9. To liaise with other people involved with the person we support, including GP, Care Manager, family, day opportunities and other agencies
10.To assist the people we support with their benefits, budgeting and management of personal monies within the framework of the individuals financial assessment, where required
11.To foster good communication with each person we support, learning how best to communicate and to use their preferred method of communication
12.To enable people to access holidays of their choice and support where appropriate
Were all about possibilities. Are you?
Are you a positive, friendly person who likes walking, listening to music and enjoys a trip to the local café?
Become a Support Worker.
What matters to the people we support matters to us. Its their life, their way.
You will be part of a fantastic team that provides support to 2 gentlemen in their own home. They enjoy a range of sensory activities at home as well as many activities within their wider community. Family is really important here, with regular visits and positive contributions from family members. If you are a warm and committed person who is enthusiastic about helping people to live their best life, then we want to hear from you.
You should be available to work a variety of shifts across the week and alternate weekends, including some sleep-in shifts as needed.
You will need to be a driver and willing to drive a mobility vehicles, as the gentlemen love to explore their local community. For this you should have a full UK manual driving licence and have held it for at least 1 year for insurance purposes.
So, if you enjoy building meaningful relationships and think you could plan, communicate and deliver supportwithandalongsidepeople, then this is the place for you.
Affinity Trust does not presently hold a Sponsorship Licence and while this status is reviewed regularly there is no present proposal to apply for such a Licence
What will you do? Supporting people is really important but its not all trips out and artwork. We also support people to take their medication, make healthy lifestyle choices or maintain their home in a way they are safe and well. It sounds exciting to say no two days will be the same, but in support, sometimes they are. Sometimes people like routine and struggle with change But when you support someone to try something new what a feeling! If you want to empower people to live the life they choose and you share our values Apply to become a Support Worker today.
Job Purpose
To support people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives, ensuring that they have maximum opportunities and choice for developing new skills and leading fulfilling, varied, are valued and live socially inclusive lifestyles where their rights, dignity and safety is protected.
Key Responsibilities
1. To identify and develop with each person an outcome based support plan, risk assessment and person centered plan which are reviewed and updated regularly
2. To assist the people we support with routine personal and domestic tasks, including personal care, household tasks and cleaning and promote a healthy lifestyle when shopping, meal planning, cooking and choosing activities
3. To monitor and promote each person's health and well being, ensuring that each person has a Health Action Plan, that medical help is sought when needed, dental, eye, hearing and other check-ups or treatment are undertaken and that changes inhealth and wellbeing are reported
4. To assist the people we support to participate in their chosen social, educational, leisure and sporting activities in the local community, taking into account their culture, faith, gender and sexuality and where desired, to support individuals to access volunteering or employment opportunities
5. To assist the person to improve his/her knowledge, skills and abilities through planned learning activities and experiences
6. To enable the people we support to keep and make new friends and keep in contact with family, friends and people in the neighbourhood and develop a circle of support
7. To enable the people we support to participate in the running of the service, offering meaningful choices and supporting them to make decisions which affect them and other
8. To administer medication when required, in accordance with policies and procedures and after completion of medication assessment
9. To liaise with other people involved with the person we support, including GP, Care Manager, family, day opportunities and other agencies
10.To assist the people we support with their benefits, budgeting and management of personal monies within the framework of the individuals financial assessment, where required
11.To foster good communication with each person we support, learning how best to communicate and to use their preferred method of communication
12.To enable people to access holidays of their choice and support where appropriate
Were all about possibilities. Are you?
Are you a positive, friendly person who likes walking, listening to music and enjoys a trip to the local café?
Become a Support Worker.
What matters to the people we support matters to us. Its their life, their way.
You will be part of a fantastic team that provides support to 2 gentlemen in their own home. They enjoy a range of sensory activities at home as well as many activities within their wider community. Family is really important here, with regular visits and positive contributions from family members. If you are a warm and committed person who is enthusiastic about helping people to live their best life, then we want to hear from you.
You should be available to work a variety of shifts across the week and alternate weekends, including some sleep-in shifts as needed.
You will need to be a driver and willing to drive a mobility vehicles, as the gentlemen love to explore their local community. For this you should have a full UK manual driving licence and have held it for at least 1 year for insurance purposes.
So, if you enjoy building meaningful relationships and think you could plan, communicate and deliver supportwithandalongsidepeople, then this is the place for you.
Affinity Trust does not presently hold a Sponsorship Licence and while this status is reviewed regularly there is no present proposal to apply for such a Licence
What will you do? Supporting people is really important but its not all trips out and artwork. We also support people to take their medication, make healthy lifestyle choices or maintain their home in a way they are safe and well. It sounds exciting to say no two days will be the same, but in support, sometimes they are. Sometimes people like routine and struggle with change But when you support someone to try something new what a feeling! If you want to empower people to live the life they choose and you share our values Apply to become a Support Worker today.
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