Support Worker - Essex

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking for high quality, dynamic and complex care Support Workers who have worked with a range of conditions and age groups. If you have experience with supporting adults with spinal injuries, we would like to hear from you.

We have a client requiring support in the East London area. This is apart timeposition in Hornchurch. Hours Available are as follows:

• Monday & Tuesday 10:30am to 2:30pm
• Wednesday 9:30am 2:30pm
• Thursday 12:30pm to 5:30pm

You will need to be an experienced support worker who can support our clients to engage in community-based activities, as part of their progression.

YOU MUST HOLD A UK DRIVING LICENCE AND HAVE ACCESS TO A CAR

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 1 year or more experience as a Complex Care Support Worker
• Flexibility, maturity, independence, and carry a very high professional standard.
• Commitment to delivering client specific care.
• Adaptable approach to support client and family members.
• Ability to maintain clear professional boundaries within a home setting.

Our Mission and Values

Claimont Health's mission is to be the leading independent sector provider of flexible, responsive, and dynamic mental health and complex care services in the UK. The values we live by are:

• Commitment
• Care
• Compassion
• Leadership
• Innovation

Claimont Health follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each persons individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Claimont Health is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights..

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications:
• NVQ level 3 related subjects
• NVQ level 4 related subjects
• Nursery nurse qualification or similar
• Diploma in relevant health / social subject

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in a similar role which demonstrates
• commitment to mandatory training, attendance, and engagement.
• Previous care experience in a health, social care, or childcare
• setting.
• Experience of communicating highly complex or sensitive
• information and using skills to overcome barriers to understanding,
• such as, with non-verbal clients.
• Understanding of Information Governance, Data Protection, Care
• Certificate standards, and safeguarding vulnerable children and
• adults.
• Experience of working in both acute and community settings.
• Experience with working within Mental Health.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Ability to provide good quality care
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to
• multi-task
• Be able to work on your own initiative and/or as part of team
• across multiple areas
• To be able to demonstrate tact and sensitivity when
• communicating with families under immense pressure, always
• reserving judgement and demonstrating empathy, compassion
• and understanding
• To maintain strict confidentiality on all matters relating to
• clients, their families
• High level of attention to detail, accuracy, and pride in your
• work presentation
• Claimont Health is specifically recruiting female applicants only in keeping with the positive action provision within the Equality Act 2010 order to meet patient needs and employee safety. This post is exempt under the Employment (Sex Discrimination) Act 2000, Section the (s9(2)(f)) Personal welfare and counselling which constitutes a Genuine Occupational Qualification. The role involves working with service users where there is a risk assessment identifying the need for a female candidate.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Claimont Health LTD

Address

Queens Hospital

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://claimonthealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)