Night support worker

Using a person centred approach you will look after the physical, emotional, cultural and social needs of service users. This will include personal care, assisting clients at meal times and all aspects of daily living. The right applicants will be providing person centred care in the form of social activities which promotes the individual's mental health and wellbeing and improves their quality of life.

You will be a key worker to specific individuals taking responsibility to ensure information about their health and wellbeing is recorded and communicated to the assistant managers and others as per our legal requirement under the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC fundamental standards information is available here.  It will be your responsibility to ensure monitoring and hourly checks with detailed recording on daily record sheets of your observations are carried out on residents throughout the day and night and their care needs are met.

As a Night Support Worker supporting vulnerable adults you must be open and transparent. Should something go wrong or you witness unsafe practice, you have a responsibility (Duty of Candour) to ensure you raise this concern with a manager immediately (fundamental standard 12).

There will be the need for light food preparation.

You will need to have the ability to converse at ease with residents with cognitive impairment and provide advice in accurate spoken English. You will have patience and empathy with an understanding of the needs of people with different types of learning disabilities. You will have experience in a caring role as a formal paid or unpaid carer with the ability to deal with emergencies in a confident manner.

You will be flexible and adaptable being able to use your own initiative and make decisions. You will have an understanding of the importance of... You will be required to take part in training (on and off site) some of which is mandatory and must be successfully completed within your probationary period. This will contribute towards your framework and study for an apprenticeship at level 2/3 in Social care and undertake learning to complete the Care Certificate.

You will understand the principles of client confidentiality and data protection.

Salary:
Band: 4, £25,201 - £26,473 (£13,622 - £14,309 for 20 hours) plus 33% shift enhancement depending on rota.

1 x 20 hours per week

Rota:

• Week one:
  Wednesday 21:30pm into Thursday 07:30am
• Week two:
  Monday 21:30pm into Tuesday 07:30am
• Friday 21:30pm into Saturday 07:30am
• Saturday 21:30pm into Sunday 07:30