Specialist Behaviour Support Worker

Come and join one of the UK’s largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone. We’d like you to join us as a Specialist Behaviour Support Worker at our service Woodland Court based in Caterham. At Woodland Court, we provide our people with the support they need, helping to promote independence and maintain a high standard of both physical and mental wellbeing. We’re committed to helping every person we support feel safe, happy, empowered enabling them to live the best life possible.

The main purpose of this role is to provide a high quality, reliable, supportive service, in line with the individual’s personalised Support Plan. To promote independence, choice and access to all that their community offers. This role also requires participation in and promotion of a team approach at all times, with positive and constructive working relationships for the benefit of the individual.

What you’ll be working: Your hours are based on a rota working every other weekend. Full time hours 42 hours per week.

What you’ll be doing: In this role you will be supporting individuals with complex communication needs, autism, and a range of physical and learning disabilities (neurodiversity). This could include supporting individuals with complex health needs. By establishing an understanding of what may impact on the individual’s ability to communicate and express themselves. You will be responsible for working as part of a team to promote positive communication and personalised support. Therefore, enabling the individual to achieve their hopes, goals and aspirations, maximising the individual’s quality of life, lead to learning and minimising their behaviours of concern.

• To promote independence, life skills and informed choices in accordance with individual’s support plan.
• To act with integrity and promote dignity and respect at all times.
• To identify opportunities to celebrate achievements to allow a positive, respectful, and trusting relationship to grow.
• Along with supporting people to improve their confidence and self-esteem.

Ensuring:

• You enable individuals we support to influence the way in which they receive their care and support.
• You listen to individuals and act upon what is important to them.
• You support individuals to keep in contact with family and friends, and to develop their social networks if they choose to.
• You use information to contribute to developing person-centred plans, involving families, friends and other professionals if this is appropriate.
• You provide opportunities for individuals to make choices and decisions.
• You support people to take part in the running of their own homes.
• Support people to manage finances to meet domestic responsibilities and personal aspirations.
• To support with domestic tasks and practical issues such as maintain a safe and habitable environment.
• Maintaining relationships required within the management of their home / tenancy.
• Support people to maintain the safety and security of their home.
• You support people to live an ordinary life, accessing the same local facilities as others.
• Listening and responding to people, using a wide range of communication skills to ensure they understand.
• Promoting and supporting people to take part in enjoyable, satisfying and purposeful activities.
• Supporting people to make sense of their environments and to access outside of their home, learn new skills and maximise their independence.
• Supporting people with their behaviour, if needed.
• Independently following any written plans and guidelines for each person.
• To follow any agreed positive behaviour support plans, that promote the least restrictive support for the individual.
• Support people to make informed choices around a healthy lifestyle including physical health and improving self-care.
• Support people to manage their own physical, mental health and wellbeing in a positive manner.
• Carrying out support responsibilities.
• Provide practical help with everyday tasks such as meal planning, shopping, and preparing meals.
• Dealing with correspondence, such as mail.
• Assisting to improve or maintain independence both within the individual’s home and outside of their home.
• Help people with complex communication needs to access services such as GP surgeries, shops and leisure facilities.
• Support individuals with personal care in line with their support plan.
• Support with overall management of medication and administration.
• This could include supporting individuals with complex health needs, that includes the overall management and use of PEG (Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) and Stoma Care, when trained to do so.

General Responsibilities:

• Supporting the induction of new staff when required.
• Keeping all records of your work up to date and accurate utilising Nourish and Radar as required.
• Ensure critical information is passed to Team Leaders / Supervisor as necessary.
• Completing the induction programme and attending courses arranged by your manager.
• Undertaking and participating in regular frequent supervision, debriefs, attending and contributing to meetings.
• Keeping up to date with policies and practices, and following these at all times.
• Behaving respectfully at all times to the people we support, their families / friends, your colleagues, and neighbours and members of the public.
• Keeping a safe, healthy and supportive environment for the people you support, yourself, your colleagues, and anyone else coming into contact with the resident.
• This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties, but is intended to give a general indication of the range of work undertaken. It will vary from time to time in light of changing demands and priorities of the resident, accordingly the post holder may be asked to undertake additional duties outside the main place of work under the direction of the Registered Manager.

What you’ll have:

• Desirable; Minimum of 1 years’ experience in the Health and Social care sector.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Great Communication Skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team and as an individual.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays.
• Birthday off.
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e-learning and face-to-face training and development opportunities.
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop.
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice.
• A Nest Personal Pension account.
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians.
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme.
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits.
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 by recommending someone you know.
• …and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group.