Wellbeing worker Job Description
Role:
To provide effective support to enable people to live their lives to the full.
People Supported:
1. Enable people to achieve their full potential.
2. Support people to fulfil their wishes expressed day-by-day and identified in their Individual Support Plan
3. Support people in the day-to-day tasks involved in ordinary living.
4. To support people through difficult times when they may injure themselves, be verbally abuse
to staff and others around them.
5. Support and encourage people to take part in the things that they enjoy at a pace they are comfortable with.
6. Understand and respect the relationships, which are important to people supported.
7. Maximise the safety of people supported, staff and the community within the overall goal of
supporting people to achieve positive outcomes in their lives.
8. Work consistently within Guidelines for Support, which ensure people are well supported, when
anxious or worried or angry.
9. Provide support for personal needs, including all aspects of personal care.
10. To provide personal care for the people we support who need it. This means supporting a
person bathing, washing, shaving, drinking eating, going to the toilet and changing pads if this is required.
11. Ensure safe administration of medication and completion of full and accurate records.
12. To maintain records necessary to support people effectively.
13. Where appropriate, support people to develop natural friendships
Staff Team:
1. Contribute to and participate in a team-based approach.
2. Attend training, development and team meetings, which may be additional to contracted hours.
3. Take part in regular support and supervision.
4. Act as a role model for those around you.
5. Work within the organisation’s values.
6. To provide personal care for the people we support who need it.
Finances and Administration:
1. Keep full records of all income and expenditure.
2. Fully comply with the financial and administrative procedures of the organisation.
Management and Organisation:
1. Work sleep-ins or waking nights when required.
2. Work to all policies and procedures.
3. Promote positive relationships with those closest to people supported, and all others helping to
support them.
4. Shape the organisation by expressing your views and contributing to how it develops.
Self-Development:
1. Attend and participate in all training and development as identified to develop one’s own skills and abilities.
2. Maintain a constant desire to learn and develop.
Summary of Terms and Conditions
Support Worker Salary: £13.50 per hour, additional sleep in payment where required.
Training.
We recognise that staff development is key to ensuring the quality of our services to people and will be offering comprehensive training and learning to our staff which will include all mandatory training. As a bespoke provider, we source individual training packages for each person and their specific needs.
We support people with complex needs who are leaving long stay hospitals to live in their own tenancies in the community providing support with shopping, cooking, cleaning and personal care tasks.
Our mission is to inspire and enable people to make informed choices and be in control of their own individually designed support plan