Job description
Job title: Support Worker
Location:
Fernside Hall Care Home
Valorum Care
Halifax HX3 0NR
United Kingdom
Rate Of Pay: £10.42 Per Hour + Overtime
Shift Patterns: Full time, Permanent Contract
Information about the Role:
- Providing physical support which may include helping with household tasks and personal care.
- Providing emotional support for an individual and at times their families.
- Maintain the hygiene, dignity, health and safety of service users at all times.
- Encouraging and supporting the development of personal skills through hobbies and interests.
- Teaching life skills, such as shopping, using public transport and paying for bills.
- Working with other healthcare professionals to ensure that all care needs meet the highest possible standards.
- Assist in the design and administration of an evaluation of the care standards and care service provision.
- If applicable, assist in the administration of medication
Set within the rural outskirts of Alfreton near Derby, Green Gables is a beautiful home set within mature gardens and close to local parks and surrounded by farmland this idyllic location is one the people we support enjoy. With 28 rooms with aspects over the gardens or surrounding farmland the home has created a calm and relaxing environment for everyone to enjoy. Green Gables supports adults with physical disability or long-term neurological conditions including
- Physical disabilities
- Complex physical needs, including diabetes
- Epilepsy
- Hearing impairment and deafness
- Strokes
- Cerebral palsy
- Aquired brain injuries
- Motor Neurone disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Speech impairment
- Someone who has a real passion for caring and helping people.
- Ideally 6-months experience of working as a Support Worker but willing to consider applications without care experience.
- Ability to work on shift/rota pattern.
- Have the right to the work in the UK