Male Support Worker

About The Role

With regret, our clients do not offer sponsorship.

Location: North Swindon and within the local community.

Hours: We are looking for a minimum of two additional Male Personal Assistants/Support Workers to join an existing team to cover the following hours:  Monday to Friday 5.15pm-10.30pm, and Wednesday to Friday 8.00am - 5.30pm. Bank hours may be available to cover absences of existing team members and on occasion to include weekends.

Pay: £15.00 per hour, weekdays with a £1 uplift (for hours worked from 8pm). £16.00 per hour, Weekends and Bank Holidays with a £1 uplift (for hours worked from 8pm).

Benefits:

• 5.6 weeks holiday (pro rata)
• Free DBS check
• Free parking
• Induction
• Relevant training opportunities (including The Care Certificate)
• Regular clinical supervision/review meetings
• Ongoing support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department

Driving:

• Driver required:  Essential
• Vehicle use:  Will be using the wheelchair adapted vehicle, automatic
• Using own vehicle for work:  Yes, on duty and to attend training

Start Date:  ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks)

Job Summary
We are seeking patient, caring Personal Assistants (Support Workers) to support our client, who was born in 2007 who loves drama and music.   

He is actively involved in community and youth arts groups and enjoys attending concerts, theatre productions, and musicals. He has a diagnosis of athetoid cerebral palsy as a result of an acquired brain injury at birth. He is a wheelchair user and also has cochlear implants. He communicates clearly using spoken English.

He is now looking to expand his support team to enable him to access assistance five days a week. This support will help him complete activities of daily living, participate fully in his interests, and promote his independence at home and in the community. He is currently in his final year of sixth form and hopes to pursue a future career in acting, making this an exciting time to join his support network and help him take the next steps toward achieving his goals.

Our client lives with his parents and younger brother in the family home.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To support our client to maximise his independence in all activities of daily living, enabling him to develop skills and confidence in his daily routines.
• To promote and facilitate access to social, leisure, and community activities , ensuring he can fully engage in the outings and events he enjoys.
• To provide positive, reliable companionship , fostering a supportive and encouraging environment.
• To assist with personal care needs in a respectful, dignified, and compassionate manner, ensuring his comfort, wellbeing, and safety at all times.

Safeguarding
ILS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients within the activities we undertake, and ILS expects all our clients’ employees and workers to share this commitment.  The suitability of all prospective employees or workers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.  This position will require:

This role requires:

• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK
• Satisfactory references, including from your most recent employer
• Enhanced DBS check (A conviction will not necessarily prevent employment)

Where a specific gender is stated as essential, gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance to paragraph 1, of the schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for a female or male worker to work with our client.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, marriage and civil partnerships and religion and belief.

About You

It would be great to receive your application, if you have the following skills/behaviours:

Essential

• Male due to providing personal care* .
• Being physically fit and capable of fulfilling the manual handling plan designed to reduce the risk of handling injuries. You may be required to bend, kneel, squat during handling tasks.
• Confident about working in client’s own home and sensitive to the needs and wishes of the family.
• Shares similar interests with client, such as music (vinyl records), drama, film and TV.
• Aptitude and desire to work with young people with complex needs.
• Flexible and able to use own initiative.
• Proactive, encouraging approach.
• Responsible attitude.
• Good sense of humour.
• Cheerful, caring and positive attitude.
• Reliable, trustworthy.
• Clear and effective communicator.
• Confident with using I.T
• Basic understanding of the principles of rehabilitation
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the importance of maintaining confidentiality and to respect our client and their family's need for privacy.
• Happy to learn new things in accordance with the client’s therapy programmes.
• Keep own record of hours worked.
• Attend supervision.
• Flexible with start and finish times according to the needs of our client
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Ensure consistency of approach.
• Willing to travel.
• Comfortable to be around cats.
• Full clean driving licence and able to drive the clients automatic, wheelchair accessible vehicle.
• This post operates a non-smoking environment.

Desirable

• Experience of and qualifications in caring for young people with severe disabilities.
• Experience of carrying out therapy programmes.
• Experience/understanding of mental health issues.
• Ability to work additional hours as required.
• Able to work flexible hours, sometimes at short notice.
• Previous experience of using specialist equipment with disabled people
• Experience of writing risk assessments and care plans.
• To have an understanding of different types of communication aids, both low tech and high tech.
• NVQ level 2 or equivalent.
• Knowledge and experience of traumatic brain injury would be advantageous.
• Own car – desirable due to location of the role.

About Us

ILS Case Management is the UK's leading independent nationwide Case Management company.

When a person’s life has been changed by injury, we address the practicalities.  We work with children and adults who have had moderate or catastrophic, complex injuries.  We assess individual needs and are able to provide a comprehensive Case Management and Rehabilitation Service designed to maximise independence.  We are CQC registered and compliant with their standards.

Our Case Managers work closely with our Clients, and we carry out all the recruitment processes on behalf of our Clients; and will support you, from your initial telephone interview right through to arranging employer interviews, trial shifts and placement.

If you are successfully recruited, you will be employed directly by our client .  However, ILS will manage your day to day employment, providing you with the support you need to carry out your role.  Working as a Carer or Support Worker for an ILS client means that you will have a dedicated Case Manager to oversee your client's care needs.

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Our Company Values

We are Supportive.  It matters to us that our clients and staff know that we care.

We have Integrity.  We can be trusted to work in a professional, honest and transparent way .
We are Client Centred.  We put our client's aspirations at the centre of everything we do.
We are Quality Focused.  We set high standards and aim to exceed them.
We are Positive.  We find solutions and empower others.