Support Worker – Adult (G5)

Job Description

Job Title : Support Worker – Adult (G5)
Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : County Hall, West Sussex County Council
Start Date : Immediate Start
Salary:£10.60

You will work as part of a team based within a residential setting where the key aim is to support people with high levels of dependency or complex needs and enable every person to be engaged in their local community to the best of their ability. For some of the people supported, this could be through a time-limited programme of targeted support to build confidence and help develop skills for independent living.
The purpose of this role is to encourage and stimulate the people we support, through the provision of outcome-based care, that promotes independence, community engagement, enables them to develop and/or maintain daily living skills and to attend to their physical, social, mental and emotional needs, ensuring comfort, safety and wellbeing and having choice and control.
You will maintain a daily caring relationship with the people we support who have mental and physical health needs and may become agitated at times. The role provides personal care to a range of people. This is also an active role and there will be some requirements for moving and handling e.g. assisting people to walk, moving people between a wheelchair and chair using a hoist, etc. There will be a role in administering medication safely, and some key lead areas to support the senior team. There may be a need to work evenings or weekends in order to meet the needs of the service. There is a regular and intrinsic requirement to communicate in English with members of the public.