Community Outreach Support Worker

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Company:  Care with Heart
Location: Sutton Courtenay
Salary: £11 - £12 Per Hour
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Community Outreach Support Worker ? £11.00/hour, increasing to £12:00/hour on successful completion of your 6-month probation period ? Full-time, part-time and zero-hours contracts available ? Full UK driving licence essential ? Based in South Oxfordshire Why work for us? Care with Heart is a small service based in Sutton Courtenay, South Oxfordshire. We exist to help people with learning disabilities make meaningful choices about their lives and live the life they choose. We provide excellent quality, person-centred care to truly help people have the leading role in their own lives. This is a varied and inspiring role for someone who is passionate about providing outstanding care and helping people realise their goals and dreams. We believe that people provide the best care when they are excited and motivated by their work. We are committed to helping you develop your skills and interests and offer varied development opportunities. Job Purpose Care with Heart is a small team looking for motivated and enthusiastic staff to support people with learning disabilities in the day and evening, with occasional overnight work. You will work with people to help them develop and implement their own activity programmes, working towards their goals and living fulfilling lives. Support will take place in people’s own homes and in their local communities. The successful applicant will work both 1:1 with people and within small groups, and will support people with social, leisure, education, and employment opportunities as needed. Line management and clinical supervision is through the service manager, and you will have the opportunity to develop your own areas of interest and work closely with colleagues to co-create an innovative service at the forefront of best practice. Duties and Responsibilities ? To work with people with learning disabilities to develop, implement and review their activity programmes and help them achieve their goals ? To provide day-to-day care and support to people with learning disabilities, as agreed in their activity programmes and support plans ? To meet the individual needs of people in your care. This could include, amongst others: • Personal care • Support with clinical conditions such as epilepsy • Clinical procedures such as enteral feeding or intermittent catheterisation • Support with mobility and positioning • Augmentative communication • Positive behaviour management. ? To work closely with people receiving support, their families, and the multidisciplinary team to provide integrated and consistent care ? To be an active and collaborative member of the Care with Heart, improving practice and enhancing the service ? To take responsibility for your own professional development and competence, with support from your line manager ? To safeguard vulnerable people by maintaining a good understanding of safeguarding and taking action as needed, following Care with Heart’s policy and local guidance.
Care with Heart
Job.Employer

Hello and welcome to Care with Heart! It’s great to see you here. We are a small service based in Sutton Courtenay, South Oxfordshire and dedicated to helping people with learning disabilities live the life they choose. That looks different for everyone, and we are always open to offering something new, so get in touch!

We help people make choices about their lives, and then taking steps towards achieving the life they choose. We help people with positive risk-taking, so you can feel confident to develop new skills and try new things in pursuit of the life of your dreams with our support. The sky’s the limit, and we are as ambitious as you are!

We can support you wherever you choose: that could be where you live, or out in the community.

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