Male Support Worker in Gloucester

Weekdays: £14.75 per hour and Weekends and Bank Holidays: £15.75 per hour (pay review pending).

About The Role:

• Location: Gloucester
• Days & Hours: 9 hours per week - 9.30am-2pm Wednesday and Thursday or Tuesday and Thursday.
• Additional hours and flexibility may be requested at times for Sunday to cover sports day tours or to cover the second support worker's annual leave or sickness.
• Driver required? Essential
• Driving Clients Car? Yes, our client's car which is an automatic
• Using Own Vehicle for work purposes? Not required as client has own vehicle.

Essential: Supporting young adults with brain injury and learning difficulties.

Desirable: Experience working with young adults with trauma and an interest in therapy. An interest in cricket, sport, horse-riding, swimming and promoting independence skills.

Accommodation (while on duty): MSAM lives in purpose-built accommodation next door to his family. His family support him overnight. There is designated space within the home for support worker use.

Interviews Week Commencing: As and when applications are received, these may be held via video calling.

Start Date: ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks).

This is a wonderful opportunity to join a supportive family where you can make a real difference to MSAM’s life by helping to maximise his opportunities and promoting his independence.

If you have an interest in sports (particularly cricket), physiotherapy, promoting independence, getting involved in activities and having fun, and you are able to communicate effectively, with an ability to work with patience, tact, understanding, warmth and compassion, then this could be the ideal role for you.

MSAM is a friendly, active young man who enjoys playing cricket for his local team amongst many other activities. His family are very supportive and important to him, as are his religious beliefs and interests. He enjoys playing board games and meeting new people. With support he is motivated to continue to learn academic skills and to access part-time courses along with working as a volunteer one day a week. He hopes to increase these hours as time progresses.

MSAM enjoys learning to cook and to look after himself but does like some space at times to quietly reflect. He cannot be left alone for his own safety and will require supervision at all times whilst respecting his privacy and personal space. MSAM, born in 1998, sustained a brain injury at the age of 3 and has learning difficulties; he walks with a limp and has difficulty using his right arm. He is mostly self-caring but does require help with practical tasks and supervision. He has occasional absence-type seizures and visual impairment.

You will be taking direction from MSAM’s parents, therapists and the Case Manager to ensure that MSAM receives all the support he needs. Your role will include accompanying and ensuring MSAM’s safety in the community and around the home as well as supporting him to pursue his goals.

This job will suit someone who is calm, proactive, and able to bring lots of enthusiasm to the role, whilst working within a family home setting, respecting cultural beliefs and practices. Some flexibility to potentially spend occasional nights away to accompany MSAM at his home and/or on holidays in the future is desirable. There will be some requirement to support MSAM playing Cricket on Sundays during the season.

Pay and Benefits:

• Weekdays: £14.75 per hour and Weekends and Bank Holidays: £15.75 per hour (pay review pending)
• On-going training & support provided
• 5.6 weeks annual leave pro rata
• Pension (subject to qualifying status)
• Free DBS check.
• Free Parking

In order to promote continuity of our high care standards, you will be offered:

• Induction
• Relevant training opportunities (including The Care Certificate)
• Regular clinical supervision/review meetings
• On-going support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department

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:

• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK
• An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate. A conviction will not necessarily prevent you from being employed.

About You:

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

• Male due to providing personal care when needed
• Must be able to work with specialist equipment (training will be provided).
• A Handling Management Plan is available and is designed to reduce the risk of handling injuries, but you may be required to bend, kneel, squat, push or pull.
• Experience with working with Acquired Brain Injury
• Confident and comfortable working in MSAM's own home and sensitive to the needs and wishes of him and his family
• Can demonstrate commitment and passion for meeting MSAM's needs
• Can demonstrate empathy and understanding in an appropriate and professional manner
• A team player who understands the importance of feedback to qualified members of the team
• Can develop productive and professional relationships with others
• Actively creates an inclusive environment respecting diversity
• Good organisational skills who can adhere to standards and quality requirements
• Friendly, approachable with a proactive and encouraging approach
• Punctual, patient, reliable and trustworthy
• Can maintain an excellent level of confidentiality
• Good verbal & written communication skills and IT literate
• Able to think creatively and to use initiative
• Willingness to work flexibly and cover shifts, sometimes at short notice
• Water confident as MSAM likes swimming
• A full driving licence (endorsements to be disclosed) and able to drive the client's automatic vehicle
• Non-smoker - this post operates in a non-smoking environment

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.

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

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 or their Deputy appointed by the Court of Protection. 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.

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 Focussed. We set high standards and aim to exceed them. We are Positive. We find solutions and empower others.