Care Worker – Adult Social Care - London

Care Worker – Adult Social Care - London – 19.30 per hour.

Job title: Care Worker – Leaning Disabilities Residential Care (Sc5)

Job Type: Temporary

Sector: Social and Healthcare Unqualified

Category: Adult Social Care

Region: South East

Location: London

Hours per week: 35

Salary: 19.30 (UC)

Salary Description: Regular

Posted: 24.06.22

Start: 08:00

End: 15:00

Job Reference: RQ615339

Social Work Choice UK Agency are recruiting for a local authority looking for a passionate care worker to provide as part of a team, 24-hour support to adults with secure learning disabilities and complex health care needs. The post involves providing support with all aspects of daily living.

Duties & Responsibilities

•Offer personal care to service users in a respectful, dignified, and non-judgmental manner

•Run shifts to ensure service users are supported to be engaged in meaningful and developmental activities •Participating in sleeping-in duty, waking night duties, and work at evenings, weekends and bank holidays •Responsibility for the ongoing management of the service in the absence of supervisory staff

•Participating in the care and development of programmes, promoting the health, welfare and comfort

•Appreciate, understand and have knowledge of different cultural needs

•Undertaking supervised key worker duties with the service users, family, and other workers as appropriate

•Performing administrative/clerical duties as required

•To take appropriate action to safeguard vulnerable adults in line with current legislation

•Carry out duties and responsibilities in accordance with Councils Health and Safety policy

•To use and assist others to use information technology systems to carry out duties

•To achieve service outcomes and outputs, and personal appraisal targets, as agreed with your line manager

•To adhere to the Code of Conduct of the General Social Care Council (HCPC).

•To undertake relevant training and development

•To be committed to the Council’s core values of public service, quality and equality

•At all times carrying out responsibilities and duties in accordance with all relevant legislation

•To undertake additional duties commensurate with the grade as directed by your line manager

Qualification & Experience

* NVQ or QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent

* At least 6 months of experience working directly with adults with learning disabilities

Benefits to you

• Good pay rate

• Supportive team and management

• Training opportunities

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Please contact us if you need any further information about this role on 020 3488 9350