Support Worker: Taylor-Cheshire House

Threshold is a local regional charity committed to enabling individuals with disabilities or recovering from mental illness to live full, independent lives within the community.

Continuous Professional Development:
You will receive an extensive induction, relevant training and regular one‑to‑one supervision with your line manager. Threshold will also provide opportunities for team development and when required specialist training for teams.

Support Worker

Team Leader

£12.65 per hour [RG1.1]

The Maples (however, there may be some travel required within Northern Ireland to fulfil the duties associated with the post.)

35 hours per working week.

To assist the Team Leader in the provision of professional and high quality support to those individuals with physical and learning disabilities, promoting recovery through a strengths based, person centred approach. This enables the people we support to ensure they live independent lives achieving their full potential in all aspects of their personal lives.

Provision of direct support to include overnight and on‑call to the persons we support, ensuring their physical and mental health. This support will include daily assistance with physical care, personal hygiene needs, daily life tasks and skill development, whilst delicately championing their personal independence and safeguarding their privacy and dignity.

Directly assist the persons we support with the setting and achieving personal orientated goals, progressing towards recovery, which may include social inclusion and self‑esteem.

• Develop and maintain a positive, trusting and professional relationship with the person we support, acting in a supportive and empathetic manner.
• Openly display passion and sensitivity to the persons we support, ensuring appropriate professional boundaries are maintained.
• Proactively contribute towards a harmonious support for the persons we support.
• Assist the persons we support in the management of both their physical health, mental health and wellbeing, through the development and implementation tailored support plans.
• Involve the people we support in all aspects of decision making, adopting a compassionate approach to any individual difficulties that may be encountered.
• Under supervision and guidance, deliver care and person centred support enabling the people we support to develop and improve their social, domestic, personal and community living skills, as defined within their personal support plan and identified outcomes.

• Provide person centred care and support by motivating, mentoring and empowering the people we support in respect of domestic and cleaning skills, meal preparation, shopping and personal budgeting.
• Assist the people we support in the planning, organisation and participation in the either individual or group activities both within the scheme and in the community.
• Assist the people we support maintain standards of personal hygiene and support in relation to infection control. [PP3.1]
• Assist the people we support in the management of their person medication, budgeting, finances and meal preparation.

• Empower the persons we support by involving them in decision making and lifestyle choices.
• Provide care using a recovery approach, focusing on re‑establishing positive identity, hope, independent and meaningful lives.
• Enabling the persons we support to make informed decisions, whilst sensitively advocating for their needs.
• Liaise with external agencies as appropriate, supporting the persons we support with housing, signposting and referral progression.
• Enable direct participation and contribution to their local community as active citizens to include direct participation in social, leisure and community based activities, engagement in volunteering, advancing training and employment opportunities, as appropriate.

• Support people to be healthy[PP4.1] in all aspects of their personal lives, continually encouraging physical and emotional wellbeing.
• Active contribution to the…