Senior Support Worker Job in Saltash, South West UK
An exciting role has arisen within United Response for a Senior Support Worker within our service in Saltash. In this role you will support people to enable them to achieve independence as far as possible in all areas of their lives. You will work as part of our team, getting to know the people we support, what’s important to them and how they want to be supported. You will be required to have good communication skills, reading and written. You will be willing to learn new skills and develop your existing ones. You will be responsible for keeping records and paperwork up to date and accurate.
The post is for 16 hours per week.
Job Requirements:
Things you will make happen:
- Get to know us, what’s important to us and how we want to be supported.
- Let us be in control of the support we get.
- Support us to have a voice and be heard, whether we can speak or not.
- Support us to take planned risks in our lives.
- Support us to be a part of the community.
- Listen to what we say – even if you don’t agree with us.
- Ask for help if you are not sure about something.
- Help us to learn new things (if we want to) and work out what we could do (which we might not have done before) safely.
- Give us information, in ways we can understand, so that we can make decisions.
- Let us know when we are not being reasonable.
- Don’t interfere in things in our lives that are not part of your job/none of your business.
- Share your ideas with us and people you work with.
- Be professional when you talk to our friends, family or other people who are important to us.
- Keep records and paperwork up to date and accurate.
- Be personally accountable for the job you do.
- Be the responsible person at the service when the manager is not available including helping to employ new staff with us and supervise and develop other members of the staff team.
Req. Code : 955
Division/Department : South West
Skills : Health/Medical - Behavioural Health
Other Skills : You will be required to enable the people we support to lead a rich and full life.
