Vacancies

Domiciliary Support Worker

Job Introduction

Various hours from 21 to 35 per week

BCP Supported Living Service supports adults with learning disabilities to live in their own home to achieve their optimum level of independence.

The service is registered with the Care Quality Commission and operates 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. You will be required to work a variety of shift patterns, including weekends, evenings and Public Holidays.

MAIN PURPOSE

To ensure personal care and support is provided as stated in the individual’s care and support plans.
To encourage and enable individuals to make choices and achieve maximum independence.
To work within the BCP Council’s policies and procedures.
To maintain accurate and precise records of all care and support delivered including finances, medication and daily activities.
To ensure the health and well-being of individuals are met.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Ensure individual’s needs are met in a person-centred way as agreed within the care and support plans.
Support individuals to keep within the requirements of their tenancy agreements.
Support individuals with their personal care needs, including assistance with toileting, bathing, washing, dressing, including moving and handling, with the use of equipment, and administering and assisting with medication.
Treat individuals with kindness, dignity and respect always ensuring individual’s personal choice is upheld regarding their daily living.
Support with any domestic tasks, food shopping and preparation whilst promoting health and hygiene standards, social skills and independence.
Assist individuals to attend hospital, GP, dental and other appointments and participate in their yearly care plan review.
Work with individuals within their own homes and in the community to enable them to pursue their hobbies, interests, social life and personal needs.
Promote effective communication with all individuals using a variety of communication methods.
Make accurate and precise records of care and support provided including finances and medication records.
To be an allocated keyworker where you will have broad responsibilities for individuals living within their homes, this will include liaising with family and other professionals, being involved in reviews including health, dental, medication and yearly assessments. Organising activities of interest for the individual at home and within the community.
Assist individuals to prepare for the review of their care and support plan, and encourage them to communicate their views with regard to their future.
Work in an anti-discriminatory way regardless of background, culture, race, sexual orientation or religion.
Work co-operatively as part of a team with flexibility to take on different duties from time to time.
Work with individuals who may display challenging behaviour.
To respect the confidential aspects of the work and not divulge information gained about the individuals, relatives or circumstances to any unauthorised person or authority.
Attend and contribute to any training courses appropriate to the duties and responsibilities of this post, including facilitator training in moving and handling and medication.
Undertake any other duties as required, commensurate with the level of the post.
To comply with all decisions, policies and standing orders of the Council and any relevant statutory requirements, including the Equality Act, the Health and Safety at Work Act and Data Protection Act.
To be aware of the fire procedure and take appropriate action.

For an informal discussion about these posts please contact Julie Wright, Registered Manager, Supported Living Service on 01202 128887.

Full training will be offered, and applicants will be required to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service check. BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment.

The Ideal Candidate

Please find attached "Person specification".

About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

Our Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.

We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.

DBS

BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.

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