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Support Worker - Residential (Fern)

Location: Fern, Cornford Lane, Pembury, Kent, TN2 4QU

Hours of Work: 1 x Full time 37 hours per week and 1 x Part time 21 hours per week  

Salary: £12.21 (plus £62 per night sleep-in rate)

Good public transport routes – close to train and bus stations / We also provide a staff transport service

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Equal Opportunity/Accessibility and Accommodations Statement:
As a Disability Confident employer, Aspens Charities is committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for individuals with disabilities. We actively promote the recruitment, retention, and career development of people with disabilities, recognising the invaluable contributions they make to our organisation. We are dedicated to ensuring an accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Aspens’ mission is to provide high-quality care and support to individuals on the autism spectrum and with learning disabilities; meeting their needs and aspirations and empowering them to learn and grow through an integrated network of services across the South-East.

We provide support and care to children, families and adults across Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, Surrey and the London Borough of Bexley. Our services include registered care homes; supported living; community outreach; day services, including pathways to employment; children and young people’s groups and support; specialist support; and free online support for families and carers across the South-East.

About the role:

Fern, is a lively up and coming service where we support 6 amazing gentlemen with a variation of needs and support.

They need someone who is fun, who is willing to try new things with them and support them to learn new skills, and attend activities.

This can be from supporting them to make their daily lunch to learning to swim, achieving personal goals and so much more.

The ideal candidate will need to have a willingness to learn, be positive and fun to be around and to support our PBS framework whilst showing empathy, compassion and commitment by using active support to bring out the best in them.

The role of a Support Worker can range from team based or lone working care roles. As a support worker the day-to-day tasks that you will be required to complete can include:

• Supporting service users with administration of medication
• Supporting with personal care needs and nutritional needs
• To support with making and attending medical appointments, ensuring accurate comprehensive records are kept.
• Supporting food shopping and individual’s personal shopping needs
• Supporting with laundry duties and cooking and cleaning
• Supporting with finances and other administrative tasks
• Supporting with moving and handling requirements and using hoists
• Supporting with social activities and accessing community-based services including those required to promote health and wellbeing.
• Offering emotional support to service users and acting as a positive role model enabling the service user to lead a fulfilling positive lifestyle.
• Writing daily notes and completing relevant forms such as accident/incident forms
• Completing daily observation sheets, ensuring a smooth flow of information to facilitate good communication within the staffing team, as well as professionals who require viewing of these.
• Fully implementing policies and procedures of the organisation and that all recording systems are completed accurately on a regular basis. To sign to say that all policies and procedures have been read.
• Working under the supervision of the line manager to enable the implementation of individual service user’s care plans.
• Working under the supervision of a line manager, to prepare individual assessments on service users, liaising with family members (as appropriate), care managers and other relevant professionals.
• Keeping service users safe and reporting any changes or health concerns
• Attending training, participating in supervision sessions with nominated manager and attending staff meetings as required by your line manager

Apart from the duties summarised above, we retain the right to include other reasonable duties which are part of, and incidental to this type of work.

 

What you can expect from us:

• Fantastic paid trainingand career progression opportunities (including recognised qualifications in health and social care)
• PAID DBS(we will recover the cost should your employment terminate for any reason, other than redundancy, before passing your probation)
• Flexible work arrangementswith opportunities to take on additional bank shifts too
• 30 Days Annual Leave(including Bank Holidays) / Pro rata dependent on hours. Annual leave entitlement increases with length of service
• Nest Pensionand Death in Service Benefit
• Dedicated Employee Assistance Programmeand Access to Mental Health First Aiders
• Aspens High Street Stores-20% discount on all items for Aspens’ staff
• Bluebell cafe-Discounted staff menu available
• Refer a Friend scheme, so you can earn up to£250for every person you refer to work for Aspens
• Recognition schemes, including ‘Employee of the Month

We’re looking for passionate individuals to help us ensure that every person we support lives a fulfilling life with dignity and independence.

Apply now and one of our team members will reach out to discuss the role further.

If shortlisted, we will contact you directly to schedule an interview. We strive to respond to all applicants; however, if you have not received a response within a reasonable timeframe, please feel free to contact us for a status update or feedback (where available). After the interview, you will be notified of the outcome. If successful, you’ll receive a formal offer in writing. Upon acceptance, we’ll guide you through the onboarding process, providing you with all the details you need.

Please note, any offer of employment will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks (which we will arrange on your behalf if you don’t already have one) and satisfactory employment references.

Apply via CV or application form

Contact: recruitment@aspens.org.uk

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