Support Worker
Full job description
Ivy Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £26,000 per year
Role: Support Worker (Life Enabler)
Location: Hounslow
Salary: £26,000per year.46 per year
Hours of work: shift work across 7 days per week, including early and late shifts and sleep ins
37.5 hours per week, permanent position
Benefits: 25 days annual leave, pension scheme, 24 hour employee assistance, paid enhanced DBS, eye care vouchers, travel season ticket loan & cycle to work scheme (eligible after 1 year’s service), and perk box
The role:
The role of a Life Enabler is to enable ensure the people you support are achieving person centred outcomes, maintaining and increasing their independence and skills to enable them to be active in their communities. You will focus on active support, physical and emotional wellbeing, communication and understanding and achieving purpose. Support will flex with people as their needs and life choices change.
Duties include:
* Building great relationships with the people you support and others who are important in their lives (families, friends, staff and external professionals)
* Ensuring people are supported in everyday tasks in respectful way, to meet their individual needs and preferences; by enabling them to do as much as possible for themselves and empower them by offering as much choice, control and involvement as possible – whether it is assistance to eat, wash, provide medication, enhance their mobility, communicating their needs, finances, getting in touch with friends, taking part in classes and being active members of their communities
* Being confident to adapt behaviour to individuals and situations
* Ensuring individualised support helps people tackle challenges and achieve their goals
About you:
To be a Life Enabler the following are essential:-
* Experience of supporting people who have learning disabilities and/or autism to become more active in their community
* Ability to make and maintain great relationships with others
* Ability to motivate others and build their confidence to try new things
* Ability to adapt support and think around problems to develop creative solutions for people
* Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberties safeguards
* Ability to use technology including, internet, emails, Microsoft Office, smart phone and ipad.
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