Job profile

We are currently looking to recruit self-motivated and enthusiastic support worker to provide care and support to adults with learning disabilities within their own homes.

You will make a difference to the quality of a person’s life by supporting them with their daily living activities.

Which can include:

• Intimate personal care: showering/bathing, dressing or undressing, assisting with toileting
• Administering medication and support with meal preparation to enable individuals to get the most from their daily life
• You will have an understanding of the importance of social inclusion, promoting independence and enabling positive life choices.
• To support people with a learning disability in their own homes and enable them to live as independent a life as possible, following the values and principles contained in “Valuing People”.
• To enable men and women with learning disabilities to have more control over their lives through person centred approaches, which maximise community inclusion and participation and are responsive to the needs and wishes of the individual.
• To support tenants with their finances, including ensuring that commitments are met and all welfare benefits to which they are entitled including Housing Benefit are claimed.
• To enable and encourage tenants to undertake daily living skills including cooking, and other household tasks, taking account of individual choice, cultural backgrounds, and religious beliefs
• To give practical, personal and emotional support, including intimate personal care, to enable service users to meet their assessed need by maintaining and promoting their health, physical and mental well-being and social development.
• To develop, with tenants, families, and other professionals as appropriate, care plans, support plans and risk assessments to enable people to maintain a quality of life in line with their person-centred plans.

Essential requirements:

• Knowledge of current legislation, guidance and value base, e.g. Valuing People, in the field of learning disabilities.
• To be mobile in being able to carry out the physical tasks within the job.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in written form, using the English language; able to produce accurate, factual, legible and clear reports.
• The ability to work as a team member and on own.
• Understanding of and ability to demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities and diversity.
• Ability to work with people with a learning disability to promote independence.
• Be able to maintain confidentiality
• Previous experience of caring.
• Ability to implement and monitor a high-quality service delivery

What can I expect?

• 24hrs per week
• The work includes weekends and bank holidays, where additional enhancements are paid on top of the basic salary, additional hours may also be available on top of the contracted hours
• Competitive holiday entitlement
• Local Government Pension Scheme and an employer contribution rate of 6.5%.
• Support and access to good quality induction and training programmes to progress your career to the next level.
• We are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our staff. We recognise that resilient teams need good work life balance as well as supportive leadership.
• Access to Wellbeing Coaching, Occupational Health Unit, support for carers and many other special leave policies.
• Great range of benefits including discounted membership to our excellent leisure facilities with free 12 weeks exercise program, discounts for a range of retail, entertainment, health and leisure providers, cycle to work scheme, eligibility to apply for a Blue Light Card and many more.
• Discounted and subsidised public transport (Arriva Bus Annual Travel Ticket, Northern Trains Limited (NTL), MetroCard).

Want to know more?

If you have experience of working in a care setting, have provided informal care and support to family or friends and understand that a person is at the centre of the care and support being delivered and you have a willingness to learn and develop your skills, then we would love to hear from you. 

For further information about the post please contact Ellen Cottam on 01924 302680 or email ecottam@wakefield.gov.uk