Home Care Support Worker, Learning Disability Service, Burwash Lodge
18 days left to apply
Burwash Lodge (On-Site)
Contract, Part time
£28,163 - 30,060 full time (£14.60 - £15.58 per hour) plus enhancements for evenings, weekends and bank holidays
35
Job introduction
CARE FOR OTHERS – MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Are you looking for a rewarding, varied role where each day can offer a fresh challenge?
Are you passionate about making a real difference to someone’s life?
Have you worked with or had experience of supporting adults with learning disabilities and complex needs?
Are you looking for an opportunity to further your career?
We are recruiting 1 part time (35 hours) Home Care Support Worker on a 9 month fixed term contract, with experience of learning disabilities and challenging behaviour, to work at Burwash Lodge, in the Hollingdean area of Brighton.
Before applying, please ensure you have read the Secondment policy to ensure you are eligible to apply for a secondment. In accordance with the policy, please ensure you have the written approval of your line manager before applying. Evidence of this must be included with your application.
We are a friendly, committed and dedicated team, who ensures all our service users specific needs are met in a caring, sensitive and inclusive way. We deliver person-centred care and we encourage and promote independence.
The People wo live at our service have mild to moderate Learning Disabilities, some have Autism, and mental health needs.
Burwash Lodge is a supported living service supporting people in their own flats . One of the people has lived at Burwash for over 30 years! The service ensures people are settled in a cosy , person centred and homely environment. We deliver 24/7 days a week support for up to 10 adults who have a learning disability.
Basic hourly rate of £14.60 increasing to £15.58 (£26,640 - £28,435 per annum actual for 35 hours per week)
Time and a half for working at weekend, double time for working on a bank holiday and time and a third for working at night (between 8pm and 6 am), opportunity to work additional hours
Read more about what benefits we offer at Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)
If you enjoy helping people, and want to make a difference to their lives, we would very much like to hear from you.
For an informal discussion, please contact
Manager: Liv Thukhutha. Livhuwani.Thukhutha@brighton-hove.gov.uk
House phone: 01273 295108
Applicants with or without a driver’s license are welcomed.
About the role
We offer comprehensive care and support for individuals, assisting with personal hygiene, mealtimes, and a variety of activities both at home and in the community. Our service users are engaging and enjoy social interactions and communicate verbally. They live in shared or single person flats, where they share household tasks like cooking, cleaning, and laundry.
You will be part of a dedicated, well established small team that provides exceptional support to those living at Burwash Lodge, ensuring that assistance is personalised to meet each person's unique needs, promoting their independence in a welcoming environment.
Our morning shifts starts at either 7 or 8 AM and finish at 2:00 or 2:30 PM. During the mornings, we have 2-3 staff members on duty. The late shifts begin at 2 PM and finish at 8:30 PM, while the mid shift runs from 10:30 AM to 8:30 PM, with one assigned to sleep-in duty overnight to maintain safe staffing levels.
Some of the key tasks are:
- Supporting with personal care whilst ensuring and maintaining their dignity and privacy when required
- Enabling individuals to participate in a range of activities within the wider community such as swimming, bowling, shopping, visiting family etc.
- Supporting service user in challenging behaviour incidents in a safe and dignified way using the principles of positive behaviour support including the use where necessary of restrictive interventions, full training given
- Deliver support in a manner which is sensitive to the service user’s culture, disability, race, age, sexuality, marital or civil partnership status, transgender or religious/belief or non belief
- Help with cooking meals and general household cleaning tasks, laundry etc.
- Assisting with the administration of medication
- Money handling and accounting
- Completing care records to a high standard whilst ensuring confidentiality and data protection
- To Keywork one of the residents and undertake additional responsibilities, such as arranging service users reviews, updating service users documentation, liaising with families, friends and health care professionals
- Contribute to and work effectively as part of a team in a professional, inclusive and respectable manner
- taking on a 'Lead Role' such as communication, dignity, infection control, health and safety, medication, equalities and diversity, positive behaviour support champion
About you:
You will need to:
- have a caring and flexible approach to your work
- have compassion, understanding and patience when working with service users from all diverse backgrounds and complex needs
- have the ability to communicate in a way that is inclusive and accessible
- be able to work well as part of a team with people from all diverse background
- Be able to work on your own initiative and think quickly in a difficult situation
You will be required to work a shift pattern including earlies, lates, sleep-ins and some weekends.
Working for us, we can offer you:
- Full specialist training program offer
- The opportunity to work extra shifts
- Generous holiday, with the ability to purchase extra leave
- Regular supervision meetings
- A range of other staff benefits from MyStaff shop
- Discounted Freedom Leisure membership
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- A wide range of welfare and wellbeing resources including staff discount schemes and staff networks such as: the BME Workers’ Forum, LGBT Workers’ Forum and Women Workers’ Forum, the Disabled Workers’ and Carers Network
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to upload your Application Form and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Application Form guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Shortlisting guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us
Company information
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).