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Job Description
Male Support Worker
Location: Bristol South West
Hours: 30 hours a week
Pay: 12.50 per hour
About HomeCareDirect
HomeCareDirect is a national service provider and a leader in personalised home care. We are committed to delivering safe compassionate and personcentred care while supporting our staff with topquality training supervision and development opportunities.
Benefits of being a Personal Care Assistant
- Company pension scheme
- Enhanced bank holiday pay
- Ongoing support from a dedicated Regional Care Lead and Nurse
- 24/7 oncall support
- Career development opportunities and personal development plan
- Employee benefits including: a Blue Light discount card Long Service Awards PA of the Quarter Awards and wellbeing options including 24/7 confidential support provided by Spectrum Life
The role of this Personal Care Assistant
Our personal care assistants join our client s support team providing reliable essential care and support in their home. You will be employed by HomeCareDirect on behalf of the client and your focus will be to support them only. This role will be to work 30 hours a week between the hours of 8am and 8pm.
About the Client and Duties
Our client is a young 33yr old gentleman with a brain injury and multisensory impairment (MSI). You will join his support team to promote positive potential benefits for him giving him the security he needs to access information communicate and safely access his environment.
You will provide support to enable effective communication and the reception of clear information. Your support will enable our client to take full advantage of learning vocational and social experiences/activities thereby allowing fuller access and social interaction/outings in his community and the world.
You will liaise closely with the family and professionals involved in our clients day to day life and deliver a daily exercise regime based on his physiotherapy programme. The aim is to increase our clients confidence encourage friendships and ensure his days are full of gainful and exciting experiences.
You will encourage him to do things for himself such as food preparation and general day to day home based activities such as cleaning washing clothes and planning his day. The emphasis of this role is to be a dependable confident fun and caring support worker to our client and will ensure that good communication is at the heart of everything.
Previous care experience is essential particularly supporting clients with epilepsy and using complex communication methods. Being a driver is desirable and experience in using BSL and Makaton is also desirable.
Requirements
Training and Support:
- We provide comprehensive paid training to CQC standards covering:
- Full induction
- Safeguarding Adults
- Health & Safety / First Aid / Food Hygiene
- Moving & Handling
- Catheter Care / Personal Care
- 2Day Intervenor Training
- Epilepsy Awareness
- All training must be completed before the start date with training hours paid at minimum wage
Requirements:
- This post is exempt under The Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1 there is a genuine occupational requirement to recruit male workers only
- Previous care experience supporting clients with epilepsy
- It is essential that you have an understanding of the complexity and implications of multisensory impairment
- Knowledge off BSL and/or Makaton is desirable
- Good IT skills
- Ability to support the client within the community
- Commitment to longterm personcentred care
- You must be reliable compassionate and committed to respecting confidentiality
Benefits
Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted selected trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe effective and compassionate care.
We do not provide sponsorship.
care experience epilepsy experience understanding of multi-sensory impairment good IT skills BSL desirable
Employment Type
Full Time
