Female Support Worker

# Female Support Worker### Job Introduction At Turning Point, we support people with Learning Disabilities across England.
As a Support Worker, you will make a real difference to people's lives as you improve their daily living skills. Passionate about people, you will enjoy the scope and support to enhance your own life and career too, as you gain the experience and training you need to progress with us.
** Where will I be working?
** You will be working in our Broadstairs service, where we support 4 individuals. We offer a 24-hour supported living facility, providing support to adults with Learning Disabilities. We tailor our support to enable people to be as independent as possible.

Support Workers are linked to work with a specific person based on shared preferences and personalities creating a bespoke core team of staff. You will primarily be supporting a 26-year-old woman with Autism and Downs Syndrome. She has a strong sense of the way that things are to be done and benefits from a predictable person-centred routine. We are looking for someone who can create a safe, structured and positive environment, where she feels safe to develop her independence and enjoy meaningful activities.

She needs support with daily living skills, including developing skills to support in community engagement, and support to maintain family relations.

Days can consist of supporting people to meet with friends or family, accessing health professionals, housework, shopping, day trips, cooking, and art/craft.
** Shift Pattern:
** This is a 24-hour service therefore flexibility is essential. You will be working a range of shifts from 7:00/8:00 am to 2:00/3:00 pm and 2:00/3:00 pm to 9:00/10:00 pm, sleep ins or waking nights, some weekends.

Please note that working hours may vary from service to service.### Role Responsibility
** What will I be doing?
** This is a hands-on job in which no two days are the same. Your duties will include:
* Promoting the independence of the people we support
* Supporting a full range of daily activities including cleaning and cooking, days out or going away on holiday
* Arranging activities in the home and in the local community
* Developing residents' life skills and personal interests
* Helping residents stay safe and healthy
* Assisting with personal care needs
* Manual handling
* Supporting people with medication
* Ensuring record keeping is maintained to the required standard at all times and contributing to service monitoring requirements###

The Ideal Candidate
** What skills and qualities do I need to have?
** Whilst knowledge of learning disabilities, complex needs and autism would be beneficial, it isn't essential as full training will be provided. What is essential is that you are:
* Passionate, caring and enthusiastic
* Flexible, patient and non-judgemental
* A great team player with lots of energy
* Able to demonstrate good communication skills
* Able to complete the physical aspects of the role such as manual handling where neede
* Compassionate, respectful and focused on promoting independence.
* eliable, with a genuine passion for supporting autistic individuals.###

About us
** Why Turning Point?
** As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

Across the varied regions, sectors and settings we operate within, our organisation is held together by a shared vision – and our people are connected by the same values. These include belief in potential, confidence in communication, embracing positive change and always treating each other as individuals.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change…