Senior support worker

Job title: Senior Support Worker

Salary: C1 £ 28,598 - £31,022 pro rata plus enhancements

Hours: 37 per week

Contract: Permanent

Location: Dolphin Manor Care Home

As a Senior Support Worker, you will support the service and the Team providing management cover. you will be expected to be flexible and asked to work across other care services. Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

As a Senior Support Worker, you will bring to the role:

• Experience of managing a staff team in a Care setting.
• Be able to use Microsoft office applications.
• Have knowledge of strength-based care
• Understand the Needs of older people.
• Knowledge of CQC and Adult social Care assurance processes.

The service supports people by collaborating with them to identify their strengths and what they can do, as much as much as what they now find harder to do, support can be tailored to meet their individual needs. This means people get to live in their own home longer, something we know they want to do.

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

• a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
• membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
• flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements.
• a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities.
• a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further.

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A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.

We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria.

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Job purpose

• Participate in multi-agency meetings including the care programme approach (CPA). This will also include working collaboratively with health professionals to apply the principles of the Mental Capacity Act (2005).
• To build and develop positive links with the local community and mainstream resources including the use of leisure, education, employment, volunteering and faith organisations and support customers engagement with these resources.
• To lead, develop and organise group activities and assess for any potential risk both in the building and community. Where activities are in the building base, this includes the setting up of the…