Job Description and Person Specification
Support Worker Botton Village, Near Danby North Yorks
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Job title:
Support Worker
Location:
Botton Village, Near Danby. North Yorks. GOOGLE MAP
Purpose:
To provide autonomous support to the elderly people we support to fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion and control
Salary:
£19,500 (NB: This is on a four-week payment cycle meaning you get paid 13 times per year at £10.00 per hour)
Hours:
37.5 hours Monday to Friday
Do you want the autonomy and freedom to enhance the lives of the people we support? We have openings for you to join us as a Support Worker at our beautiful Botton Village, near Danby, North Yorkshire. If the following appeals, we’d love to hear from you: ✓ You crave the autonomy and freedom to provide true person-centred support: the people we support all have differing needs and wants; you are instrumental in making it happen! ✓ You would love to be part of a true community: our location is Botton Village, right on the edge of the North York Moors and offers independence to all we support. ✓ You want to become a real part of someone’s life and be able to support them in all their activities. ✓ You have a passion for helping others live a fulfilling and interesting life. ✓ You like being involved in the activities of people you support: many of the people we support have interests such as swimming, horse riding, crafts, trips to the seaside, music, gardening, cinema, lego ……. the list is almost endless ✓ Would you love to have this as your workplace? Here’s what we have at Botton Village …
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Who are we looking for? • • • •
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You’ll have experience of supporting adults with learning disabilities, elderly support or working with those with dementia. You may be looking for that ideal role where you can support the individual needs of the people we support: you’ll enjoy taking people out to enjoy the activities they love and help them lead a fulfilling life. Support Workers with driving licence will be ideal: not only to get to Botton Village but also to use our pool cars so you can take people out on daily activities. You’ll have a supportive and encouraging natural approach: our tenants live in their own shared houses and will need support and guidance to maintain their home, use laundry equipment, cook, plan shopping and will need help looking after their finances. You’ll have a general education, good numeracy and literacy skills and a Level 2 or 3 NVQ in Care (or equivalent)
What do we offer you? Our other benefits include: • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) raising to 35 days at two years’ service • An opportunity to ‘cash in’ 1 week leave a year • Employee assistance scheme that is also available to your immediate family • Free on-site parking • Pension Scheme: we contribute to a pension scheme along with your personal contributions • Death in Service benefits: payments made to your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen All of our employees will require a DBS criminal record check. We can do this for you if you’re not already on the DBS update service.
A bit about us: We’d love you to join our fantastic and dedicated team to be part of the community, working closely with the people we support. We’re quite unique: our 1,000-acre estate has multiple living accommodations but loads of additional features. There’s a village shop, café, supported homes, a walled garden, woodworking and creative studios, a lego studio, massive greenhouses, a 200 seater theatre and stunning scenery at every turn. Many of the people we support have been with us for many years. Our longest resident, June, has been living at Botton Village for 50 years. We are a charity and have been in existence for almost 70 years.
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Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Working under the direction of the Team Leader, plan and provide support and care to foster the wellbeing and development of tenants in accordance with their person centred support and care plan, recording and reviewing progress as directed so that the people we support can fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion and control supporting them to: • • • • • • •
encourage the people we support to maintain clean, tidy and welcoming living environment. support to use appropriate laundry equipment so they can be enabled to do their laundry and clothing. plan, shop and prepare healthy and wholesome meals alongside the people we support taking into account their choices and wishes. Encourage the people we support to be healthy by assisting them to arrange and attend medical appointments. enable people we support to look after their finances by supporting them individually to budget, monitor their finances and access benefits. support and encourage tenants to maintain an active and supportive social life considering individual choices and wishes. access training, work and support.
2. Working under the direction of the Team Leader, provide personal care to tenants, where
required, and appropriate as part of their support and care plan • Bathing, dressing, shaving, using commodes, bedpans, urinals, washbowls etc. • Ileostomy/ Stoma care; catheter care. • Administering and recording of medication, order/check medications. • Meal preparation: preparing pureed meals, as well as assisted feeding of people you support. • Related paperwork: care plans, daily updates, person profiles, Risk assessments, safeguarding and notes/updates on health appointments. 3.
Working under the direction of the Team Leader, ensure tenants receive their housing related support by enabling tenants to look after their finances. This includes developing appropriate budgeting and financial training including support to access benefits and maintain them and assist them to understand and maintain their tenancy. Assisting tenants to access services from the landlord including to access maintenance services and reporting non-functioning safety and security measures.
4. Undertake such other tasks as required by the Team Leader to develop and maintain the
high quality of service required. 5. Work within the community’s policies and procedures and code of conduct, actively
promote the equality and diversity and the human right of tenants to realise independence, choice, inclusion and control. 6. Undertake training and continuous professional development in accordance with the needs
of the service and the tenants.
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A bit more about us and what we have at Botton Village:
We have our own dairy herd of 20 cows who produce over 100,000 litres of milk each year to make our award-winning Dale End Cheddar cheese
The people we support have a wide range of activities they can participate in or learn. Many of the items we make are sold in our shops or online
Many of the people we support like to go on outings or trips to the seaside. You’ll need to provide your own bucket and spade if you want to make sandcastles though!
Our craft workshops provide creative experiences in woodworking, textiles, pottery and art.
You’ll support people within their own homes in our village. It’s a special place and you’ll be part of an inspiring and developing community.
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