Support Worker

Bournemouth, Dorset
Oakleaf Recruitment

Job description

For this particular role we can only consider candidates who have the right to live and work in the UK. Please ensure you have the right to live and work in the UK before applying.

Job title: Support Worker

Location: James Burns House, Greenways Avenue, Bournemouth BH8 0AS

Rate Of Pay: £10.42 per hour + Overtime

Shift Patterns: 38.75hrs Per Week Guaranteed, Permanent, Days and Nights

Information about the Role:

Working as a Support Worker at James Burns House your duties will include the following:

• 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.

Information about the Service:

James Burns House, in Bournemouth, is a residential home for 21 people with a physical disability.

Our expertise is in supporting people who have varying and complex needs as a result of physical and long-term neurological conditions including cerebral palsy, epilepsy, head/brain injury, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neuropathic conditions, spina bifida, hydrocephalus and stroke.

Some of our residents also have a learning disability. Our specialist care team is trained to provide complex physical care including diabetes and COPD management and use of PEGs.

Necessary Experience or Qualifications to work as a Support worker:

• No experience needed for this role as full training will be provided.
• However previous experience working as a Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Domiciliary Carer or Senior preferred.
• Caring, kind and considerate.
• Passionate about making a difference in someone else’s life.
• Good communication skills.
• Able handle sometimes challenging situations.
• Fun, energetic and able to build relationships with many different people.
• Driver desirable for the mini bus but not essential

Oakleaf Recruitment are the In-House Recruitment Team for a growing group of Services and Hospitals across the UK.