Casual Support Worker

Salary: £12.38 to £12.80 an hour Plus 10% unsocial hours for qualifying shifts

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working

At The Medley we provide care to customers throughout the year. As a Care Support Worker, you will perform your duties in a person-centred manner, promoting well-being, choices, dignity, and independence. You will support customers with personal care needs, social daily living skills and leisure or work activities.

Short Break service

At Bradbury Manor we provide short breaks away from the family home supporting customers, enabling them to take part in meaningful community focused activities or activities.We work with families, paid and unpaid carers to ensure that they are also involved and listened to, we will support the customer in the most appropriate way to enable them tomaximise their independence.

Main duties of the job

• Support and assist the well-being of individuals and groups to assure their protection, security and development
• Safeguarding, protection and care
• Community, residential, day or field settings
• Ongoing risk/needs assessment of and advice for individuals/groups
• Specification of any non-council provision
• Individual or small group emphasis
• May involve personal care activities

About us

Why us?

Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Thats why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.

Job responsibilities

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Work in a person-centred way with customers and promote their wellbeing, choices, dignity and independence. This will be achieved through the key-worker system.
• Planning activities for and with customers, taking into account differing needs, wishes and preferences.
• Creation of menus taking into account medical conditions, wishes, preferences, diets, etc
• Support customers either living in their own home, or whilst visiting the settings.
• Where appropriate, support customers to understand and maintain their tenancies, or licence agreements.
• Support customers moving into or out of the property; to be involved in the planning, preparation and execution of the move, or stay at short break services.
• Encourage and support customers in their personal, social (including religious), and leisure and work activities.
• Support customers maintain and develop relationships.
• When required undertake sleeping-in duties or waking night duties on the premises.
• Undertake any such other duties as are required and are appropriate to the job;
• This post will involve unsocial and weekend working, as well as sleep-in duties
• Have a flexible approach and work within a varied rota including on call, evenings, weekends and sleeping-in, and waking nights duties, as responsibilities and customers needs may change.