Bank Support Worker

Main responsibilities:

• Working under the direction of the Team Leader, plan and provide support and care to foster the wellbeing and development of residents in accordance with their person-centred support and care plan, recording and reviewing progress as directed.
• Encourage and support the residents to maintain a clean, tidy and welcoming living environment.
• Support residents to use appropriate laundry equipment so they can be enabled to do their laundry and clothing, ensuring they have suitable and clean clothing to wear.
• Plan, shop and prepare healthy and wholesome meals alongside the residents, taking into account their choices and wishes.
• Support residents to be healthy by assisting them to arrange and attend medical appointments.
• Enable residents to look after their finances by supporting them on an individual basis to budget, monitor their finances, and access benefits.
• Support and encourage residents to maintain an active and supportive social life, taking into account individual choices and wishes.
• Access training, work and support.
• Provide personal care to residents where required and appropriate as part of their support and care plan (e.g., bathing, hair washing, etc.) and where the appropriate registration is in place.
• Ensure residents receive their housing-related support by enabling residents to look after their finances and assisting them to access services from the landlord.
• Undertake such other tasks as required by the Team Leader to develop and maintain the high quality of service required.
• Work within the community's policies and procedures and code of conduct, and actively promote equality and diversity and the human rights of residents.
• Undertake training and continuous professional development in accordance with the needs of the service and the residents.
• Undertake personal development to develop an understanding of our philosophy and values and how these inform and guide practice in the key responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification:

• Previous experience of working within a care or support setting, ideally with adults with learning disabilities.
• Previous experience of working in anthroposophical organisations providing social care is desirable but not essential.
• Working knowledge of risk assessment, health and safety, support and care plans, safeguarding, person-centred planning, equalities and human rights is desirable.
• Being supportive of our values and philosophy and our approach to building community is desirable for this role.

Qualifications:

• You’ll have a general education, good numeracy, and literacy skills, and preferably a Level 2 or 3 NVQ in Care (or equivalent).

Key Competencies:

• Respecting and understanding others: Is able to understand issues from others’ viewpoints and builds an atmosphere of trust and openness.
• Effective communication: Is able to communicate effectively with others through verbal and non-verbal communication methods.
• Working with and developing others: Is an active member of the team, working cooperatively with others and assisting when they need support.
• Results and quality focus: Is conscientious, strives to complete work to high standards and looks to improve and maintain the quality of performance.
• Problem solving and decision making: Is able to collect, interpret and evaluate information to develop a deep understanding of a problem.
• Resilience to change and challenges: Is open to change and embracing new developments/initiatives.

Camphill Village Trust is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all adults who use our services.

Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant pre-employment checks including a DBS check.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.