Casual Home Care Support Worker

Casual Home Care Support Worker

Location: 55 Drove Road, Portslade, BN41 2PA.

Contract: Casual, flexible hours; 0 hours contractual basis.

Job details

Salary: £14.13 per hour plus enhancements for weekend, nights and bank holidays.

Job reference: REQ0001107.

Job description

As a Relief Home Care Support Worker, you will:

• Support young people from diverse backgrounds with intimate personal care when required.
• Use a range of inclusive and accessible communication tools to help our young people express themselves.
• Undertake a range of domestic tasks including cleaning, shopping, providing freshly prepared meals.
• Support your colleagues and yourself to stay safe during times of behaviours of concern.

Qualifications

• Experience looking after children with learning disabilities or willingness to learn.
• Inclusive and accessible communication skills for interaction with service users, families, social workers, and medical professionals.
• Ability to apply learned restrictive interventions to support young people in line with their behaviour support plans.
• Clear Enhanced DBS Certificate.

Shift patterns

• Early shifts: 7am-2.30pm (until 11am during term times).
• Late shifts: 2pm-9.30pm or 10pm.
• Sleep-in shifts when cover is needed.

Benefits

• Support with in-house training to improve skills and knowledge.
• Opportunity to increase your skill and experience for future roles within social care, education and childcare.
• Enhancements over weekends, evenings, and bank holidays.
• Discounts in some of the major store chains and leisure facilities.

Employment Equality

We welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds and encourage applicants from BME or White Other backgrounds as well as those who identify as disabled, male, or trans.

If you would like to discuss this role, please email Simon Kinyua at Simon.Kinyua@brighton-hove.gov.uk.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

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