Job description

Are you compassionate? Do you care about people, quality of life and helping people to be the best they can be? If this is you, Vision Consortium Services wants to hear from you!

We pride ourselves on providing the best possible support to a range of people with a variety of support needs within one of our “home from home” properties within the West Midlands. Transitional Support Workers are the very back bone of what we do. They are the first person our service users see, and we want them to see a warm and welcoming contagious smile!

In return for working for a budding and compassionate organization, we ask that you provide the best person centered support, promote independence and take a holistic health and wellbeing approach. We believe real growth happens together and we will support your development from the moment you join us.

This is not just a job, this is a vocation and we want people who share our values of Honesty, Integrity, Transparency and Consistency. No two days are the same, which makes the role even more exciting as you learn new skills and help transform lives at the same time.

We provide full comprehensive training to all successful candidates, ensuring that any additional training is service user specific, with opportunities available as we grow to gain qualifications such as NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care.

If you wish to join us on our journey to help people realise their maximum potential, what are you waiting for? We want to hear from you!

This is an exciting opportunity for Support Workers to join a one of our semi-independent or supported living homes, for young people aged 16-25 with Mild Leaning Disabilities, supporting emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties .

The successful candidates will have a genuine passion to promote independence for Service Users by working with them to develop their life skills.

We have vacancies in our homes in;

Smethwick

Erdington

Oldbury

Great Barr

Sutton Coldfield

If you are shortlisted you will be contacted via telephone in the first instance. Please state which area you are applying for at this point

The ideal candidate will:

Have a minimum of 1 year experience working with service users
Knowledge of safeguarding
Able to commit to a 24 hour shift pattern and work weekends. 8am - 8am with 11pm-7am is sleep, 1 day on 2 days off on a rolling shift pattern [40 hours per week]

Ø To ensure the well-being of our service users by contributing to the provision of a support service tailored to their individual needs including the promotion of life skills, fostering independence, choice and inclusion in the community.

Ø To work to individual support plans to promote individual life skills including travel training, money management and shopping.

Ø To ensure that accurate records are maintained.

Ø To understand, promote and participate in a multi-disciplinary team approach to provide support to residents

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. To support service users in all aspects of their independent living skills, whilst respecting their dignity and independence.

2. To ensure that service users are provided with the necessary resources to provide a pathway for them to achieve their desired outcome to independence

3. To respond to and meet the identified needs of service users, as outlined in the individual care/support plan.

4. To carry out risk assessments and completion of care/support plans.

5. To contribute to the provision of a safe, secure and positive environment.

6. To monitor progress and ensure that relevant documentation is completed in a timely manner and that accurate records are always maintained.

7. To provide one-to-one mentoring and/or group sessions and organise activities that create interest and stimulate and engage service users, including leisure and other creative activities.

8. To support daily living skills such as budgeting, shopping, claiming benefits, problem solving and engaging the service users in the day to day running of the home, including carrying out domestic tasks associated with normal daily living.

9. To liaise with families, social workers, therapists and other multi-agency organisations, as required to meet service users’ needs.

10. To respect the right of service users to make informed choices, including the right to refuse assistance that does not impact safeguarding.

11. To report to the Team Manager any changes in any of the service users that is not within their support.

12. To report accidents or injuries to the Team Manager immediately and to ensure that there is a written record of support every 30 minutes during the course of each shifts.

13. To work as part of a team and communicate effectively with all staff.

14. To undertake household tasks, administration and data collection as and when required.

15. To promote the strengths of VCS and the support services provided during regulatory visits.

16. To attend and participate in induction, supervision, performance appraisal, staff meetings and training and development programmes, as required.

17. To ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times, in keeping with the Data

Protection Act (DPA) 2018 – ensuring that service users’ personal details are not disclosed to any unauthorised persons and that all records are maintained within the DPA 2018 requirements.

18. To understand and be familiar with all relevant legislation guidance policies and procedures, including those that relate to equal opportunities, safeguarding and health and safety and be able to maintain a best practice approach to ensure requirements are met.

19. To travel between the homes in the West Midlands area, if required.

VARIATION CLAUSE

This is a description of the job as it is constituted at the date shown. It is the practice of this company periodically to examine job descriptions, update them and ensure that they relate to the job performed, or to incorporate any proposed changes. This procedure will be conducted by the appropriate Manager in consultation with the post holder. In these circumstances, it will be the aim to reach agreement on reasonable changes, but if agreement is not possible management reserves the right to make changes to your job description following consultation.

FLEXIBILITY CLAUSE

Other duties and responsibilities expressed and implied which arise from the nature and character of the post within the company mentioned above or in a comparable post in any of the Company’s other areas.This is an exciting opportunity for Support Workers to join a one of our semi-independent or supported living homes, for young people aged 16-25 with Mild Leaning Disabilities, supporting emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties .