Support Worker
Immediate Start Nights | From £11.50 to £12.00 per hour
Are you looking to develop your experience within the care sector? Social Care and Education have an exciting opportunity for you! We are seeking a dedicated Support Worker who has an interest in working in complex care. We are supporting our client to find a fantastic permanent night support worker who he can build a trusting relationship with.
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
Shift Type: Permanent night shifts, 36 hours per week
Your Role as a Support Worker:
• Able to help with all aspects of personal care, bowel and catheter care
• Join in with playing on the PlayStation with the client as he is a keen gamer
• Have an interest in sports, current news and music
• Support with shopping, housework including cleaning and laundry
• Meal preparation, our client may come into the kitchen with you and explain how he likes his meals made.
• Support with light gardening duties, including feeding fish in the pond.
• Supporting with administering medication
• React quickly to emergency situations in a calm manor, this may include hospital visits.
• Have knowledge working with someone with a spinal cord Injury and Dysreflexia
• Hosting experience
• Emotional support, either at home and/or in their local community
• Assist with budgeting
• Building/maintaining relationship with friends and family
• Going out for walks, meals and other activities that supported individuals may want to experience
Requirements
• Supporting a client with a spinal cord injury on a 1:1 basis
• Must have a UK manual driving licence
• At least 2 years’ experience working in the care sector in the UK
• Good level of written and spoken English
• Able to work quickly and effectively in an emergency
• Complex care experience (desirable
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