Female Support Worker

With regret, our clients do not offer sponsorship.

Location: Attleborough, Norfolk

Hours:13 hours per week with flexibility to cover overnight and staff annual leave. Shifts and availability will be discussed at interview. Typical shifts are 8am-9pm, 8am-4.30 pm and 4.30pm-9pm and overnights are 9pm-12 noon the following day.

Pay:

• Weekdays: £15.17 per hour
• Sleeping Nights 9pm-7am: National Living Wage
• Pension (subject to qualifying status)
• Free DBS check
• 2 weeks employer sick pay after probation
• Free parking
• Induction
• Relevant training opportunities (including The Care Certificate)
• Regular clinical supervision/review meetings
• Ongoing support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department

Driving:

Driver required:Essential
Vehicle use: Will be using the client's car, automatic
Using own vehicle for work:Yes, on duty and to attend training

Start Date:ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks)

Job Summary

Our client is a 30-year-old lady who is happy,sociable with a great sense of humour. Sheenjoys basketballandfootball in the garden, puzzles, games,preparing her meals,dancing to music, swimming, and going on adventures in the community or on holiday. Shealso lovesspending time withherfamily and friends. Shelives at home in an annexe attached to the main house with her parents and two small dogs.

She has an acquired brain injury and is a wheelchair user andalso usesa walking frame to get around and has a therapeutic support plan in place. She requires a rest in the afternoon to recharge. We are looking for a confident, compassionate, caring, and positive person with good communication skills and able to make decisions and use your initiative as you will be working on your own.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Supporting the development of independence with all activities
• Daily exercises to support heractivity programme includingrehabilitation andhydrotherapy
• Deliverpersonal caretailored to her individual needs
• This is a physically demanding role which involves supporting our client with her mobility, using moving and handling techniques and equipment safely(eg wheelchair, standing frame, bike etc)
• Transporting our client in her own adapted Motability vehicle
• Promoting purposeful, structured timeboth at home and out in the community
• Assisting/supporting with medication administration

You'll be workingas part of a small friendly team guided byTeam Leader, andparents daily and supported by a Case Manager.

Safeguarding ILS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients within the activities we undertake, and ILS expects all our clients' employees and workers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or workers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This position will require:

• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK
• Satisfactory references, including from your most recent employer
• Enhanced DBS check (A conviction will not necessarily prevent employment)

Where a specific gender is stated as essential, gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance to paragraph 1, of the schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for a female or male worker to work with our client.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, marriage and civil partnerships and religion and belief.

It would be great to receive your application, if you have the following skills/behaviours:

• Female due to providing personal care
• Must be able to work with specialist equipment (training will be provided). A Handling Management Plan is available andisdesigned to reduce the risk of handling injuries, but you will be required to bend, kneel, squat, push or pull.
• Experience with working with Acquired Brain Injury
• Confident and comfortable working in the client's own home and sensitive to the needs and wishes ofher and her family
• Can demonstrate commitment and passion for meeting the client's needs
• Can demonstrate empathy and understanding in an appropriate and professional manner
• A team player who understands the importance of feedback to qualified members of the team
• Can develop productive and professional relationships with others
• Actively creates an inclusive environment respecting diversity
• Good organisational skills who can adhere to standards and quality requirements
• Friendly, approachable with a proactiveand encouraging approach
• Water confident to assist with swimming
• Punctual, patient, reliable and trustworthy
• Can maintain an excellent level ofconfidentiality
• Good verbal & written communication skills and IT literate
• Able to think creatively and to use initiative
• Willingness to work flexibly and cover shifts, sometimes at short notice
• A full driving licence (endorsements to be disclosed)

ILS CaseManagementis the UK's leading independent nationwide Case Management company.

When a person's life has been changed by injury, we address the practicalities. We work with children and adults who have had moderate or catastrophic, complex injuries. We assess individual needs and are able to provide a comprehensive Case Management and Rehabilitation Service designed to maximise independence. We are CQC registered and compliant with their standards.

Our Case Managers work closely with our Clients, and we carry out all the recruitment processes on behalf of our Clients; and will support you, from your initial telephone interview right through to arranging employer interviews, trial shifts and placement.

If you are successfully recruited, you will be employed directly byour client or their Deputy appointed by the Court of Protection . However, ILS will manage your day to day employment, providing you with the support you need to carry out your role. Working as a Carer or Support Worker for an ILS client means that you will have a dedicated Case Manager to oversee your client's care needs.

We are Supportive. It matters to us that our clients and staff know that we care.

We have Integrity. We can be trusted to work in a professional, honest and transparent way .
We are Client Centred. Weput our client's aspirations at the centre of everything we do.
We are Quality Focussed. Weset high standards and aim to exceed them.
We are Positive. Wefind solutions and empower others.