About the role
Jasmine House Supported Living is based in the town of Ely and supports tenants in a communal house.
The role of Senior Support Worker is to lead a staff team of Support Workers to support and empower adults with a learning disability to enhance the quality of their life, maximise potential and to continue to promote and develop independence skills within their home, the community, or within a supported unit or whilst accessing respite.
You will line manage a team of Support Workers providing support, training and supervision.
What will you be doing?
You will report to the Registered Manager to ensure the service meets the CQC requirements.
You will ensure that information within the Service is accurate and up to date and reviewed to meet requirements. This may include care plans, medication management and recording, health action plans, hospital passports, risk assessments, safeguarding, and accident and incident reports. You will also undertake audits and quality assurance checks.
Take responsibility for more complex health needs and liaise with health professionals. Attend meetings and appointments with professionals when required. To work within Mental Capacity legislation and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and have the ability to apply legislation within your area of responsibility.
Managing staff resources to ensure the service has adequate staff cover to agreed levels will also be required.
This post is for 30 hours per week, requires you to work various shifts (between 8am- 10pm.) and to work one weekend in four as well as selected Bank Holidays as part of a rota for which additional enhancements are paid. It is also a requirement to complete a minimum of one pre-arranged sleep-in shift a month.
The starting pay for the posts is £12.70 per hour (£19.05 Saturday hours- £23.24 Sunday hours).
You will be completing a comprehensive training program and benefit from excellent career development opportunities as well as being part of a supportive team committed to delivering an excellent service for adults with disabilities.
About you
You will need to have a proficient level of written and spoken English for the purposes of case recording and will hold a Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or related subject.
As a Senior Support Worker, you will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as having proficient IT skills.
You will be able to demonstrate commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion principles and anti-discriminatory practice.
Show an understanding of the principles of a supported living/ respite Provision.
If you have any further questions, please contact Tracey Tunnell on 01353 662261
This is a rolling campaign, and we will review applications daily. Candidates will be progressed shortly after they apply, and the opportunity will be filled as soon as we identify a suitable candidate. So please don't hesitate, we want to speak to you now!
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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