Day Service Senior Support Worker

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Job Title: Day Service Senior Support Worker

Starting Salary: £26,835 (£13.90 per hour) with the opportunity to progress to £30,060 (£15.58 per hour)

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Directorate: Adult Care Services

AT THIS TIME WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM CANDIDATES WITH STUDENT VISAS OR SPONSORED VISAS

Locations:

Welwyn - Welwyn Hatfield Day Service - 37 hours

About The Team

Are you an experienced Day Service Support Worker wanting to progress whilst supporting people to live their best lives?

People with disabilities in Hertfordshire need people like you!

Come and work for a trusted employer who will value you and support your development

About

The Role

You will work in Day Centres across Hertfordshire to support people with:

To lead on the daily programmes and communicate any relevant changes necessary to other senior staff and/or managers. Applying a positive risk approach in providing innovative day opportunities that both connect and enable those who attend the service.

To develop and implement individual and detailed service user support plans, linking with other relevant parties, including liaison with families, health professionals, social workers, and other agencies. Act as link worker to named individuals.

To undertake medication duties, including administration and recording, and where appropriate supervise junior staff in this task.

About You

You need to have some experience as a Day Service Support Worker for this role and to hold an RQF Level 2 award or equivalent – we will support you with all additional the training you need.

You just need the right values and a willingness to learn.

This job role is within the Health and Social Care, level 7 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Health and social care

To hear more about this opportunity please contact e for an informal discussion about the role.

Benefits Of Working For Us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding

This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

English Fluency

The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.

• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Job function Other
• Industries Government Administration

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