Support worker

BBS Recruitment is currently recruiting an experienced Support Worker in a temporary to permanent position for our client in Witham, Essex.

The successful candidate should be a proactive and hardworking individual with prior experience within a role.

JOB PURPOSE

To provide high quality individualised outcome focused care and/or support to service users.

To enable service users to improve their quality of life, including mental and physical.

wellbeing.

Support service users to develop their skills and to be independent and in control of them.

life choices as possible.

To offer line management support to front line support workers.

ACCOUNTABLITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

To provide unsupervised person cantered care and/or support for service users to the

required standard in areas including but not limited to personal care; maximizing physical.

and mental wellbeing, personal safety, participating in the local community; household.

living skills and money management; promoting positive participation and inclusion at all

times. To be able to work positively with vulnerable people including young people and

those with disabilities. To support people to reach their goals and aspirations.

To work with vulnerable adults who require specialist support relating to challenging.

behavior or complex mental health needs.

To lead on the delivery support, support plans and risk assessments and to have

responsibility for formally signing off the plans.

To facilitate person-cantered planning meetings. To utilize a range of approaches including

collaborative multi agency working.

To work with the people that we support to devise effective positive behavior support plans.

and/or recovery tools which are relevant to the service.

To develop support plans, risk assessments and risk management tools as required and to

support service users to meet their needs, goals and aspirations and support agreed

outcomes within the support plan / recovery star.

To take responsibility for organizing and chairing formal support plan and risk management

review meetings and evaluations. This will include contacting family members, professionals.

agencies and other relevant stakeholders.

To have responsibility for signing off the support plan and risk assessment review process

To be responsible for liaising with and updating professional agencies on the progress of the

support planning / recovery star process.

To treat service users with dignity and respect, communicating effectively to meet

their diverse needs.

Requirements:

2 Years experienced