Meridian Health & Social Care are a domiciliary care company who provide a range of care and support services for our service users.
Our main priority for this job role is to recruit passionate new Support Worker's - caring individuals with the right values, behaviour’s and attitudes that match our own – could this be you?
The supported living service aims to provide the highest standards and quality of life for people with learning disabilities, ensuring tenants/residents/service users live as normal a life as possible in their own home with the support and care they need to provide maximum independence. All tenants/residents/service users will be treated as individuals and their individual cultural, religious and sexual diversity will be accepted and respected. It is expected that tenants/residents/service users will be consulted about all aspects of their daily life, including personal care, communal and household tasks, financial and social arrangements.
Activities and Duties:
• To undertake required training as directed
• To provide support and meet the basic care needs of service users ensuring that personal dignity and rights are respected at all times
• To maintain high standards of support according to the needs of the individual, ensuring a high quality of life
• To ensure that support is provided to individuals in accordance with Meridian Health and Social Care policies and procedures
• To assist in the identification of individual needs and ensure that appropriate support is provided to meet these needs
• To provide support in all daily living activities engaged in by the individual
• With other members of the team provide a friendly supportive atmosphere in which individuals are encouraged to and enabled to develop a valued lifestyle
Key Tasks
• Assist in all stages of person centred planning
• To undertake cleaning, cooking, washing up, laundry duties and other related activities ensuring service users are involved as much as possible.
• To assist service users to exercise choice and control over all aspects of their life
• To assist/enable service users to maintain high standards of health care and personal hygiene
• To enable service users to develop their skills and abilities
• To participate in a key worker system
• To be involved in supporting service users on holiday
• To be involved in enabling the service user to access and participate in a wide range of community based activities
• To participate in relevant training to update and enhance knowledge base
• To be aware of your responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act
• To report any incidents and complaints to your line manager
• To keep accurate records of individuals as laid down in policies and procedures
• To participate in the rota within the framework of the contracted hours
• To provide tenants/residents/service users with opportunities for new experiences, individualism and freedom of expression, and the opportunity to exercise individual choice
• To operate within the correct recording and receipt procedure relating to financial management and handling of service users personal money as laid down in policies and procedures
• To maintain strict confidentiality in all aspects of work relating to tenants/residents/service users, colleagues and the company in line with policy and procedure
• To treat all service users with dignity and respect, taking into account cultural needs as well as gender, race and ethnicity.
Apply now for an immediate interview (must be in the UK to apply for this role)! We currently do not offer sponsorship to anyone already in the UK. We also do not offer employment to anyone already on a sponsorship elsewhere or the switching of sponsorship.
If you are outside of the UK and looking for sponsorship, please email your CV to [email protected]