Job Description
Day/ Night Support Co-ordinator
Day/ Night Support Co-ordinatorCamden
£16.50 Per Hour
Job Role
* To support people with Disabilities to take control of their lives and, making use of the local community, to meet planned goals and outcomes.
* To provide high quality support to adults with Disabilities, to include physical and emotional support and personal care.
Example outcomes or objectives that this role will deliver:
* Participate in the care planning, monitoring and review process
* Promote equality of opportunity, choice, privacy, dignity, rights and independence
* Support customers to develop and maintain relationships and be attuned to customers' wellbeing needs
* Participate in organising and leading activities in the community and the service
* To follow organisational policies and procedures
* Ensure the safeguarding of vulnerable adults
* Participate positively in the supervision and appraisal process for performance management
People Management Responsibilities:
Relationships: The post requires working effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including customers and their relatives and friends, other professionals, colleagues and members of the community, and the ability to communicate with each at a level that is meaningful to them is essential.
Work Environment:
* Part of a busy vibrant supported living service, which requires all workers to be flexible to adapt to changing needs and demands of customers
* Working with people who may need hands-on support in all areas of daily living, including people moving, personal care and administration of medication
* Some customers may display behaviours which challenge the service
* Universal precautions required to inhibit spread of infection.
* The service operates across seven days and will require the postholder to be available to work at any time within this; including evenings, weekends and bank holidays, and sleep-in cover.
Essential:
* NVQ Level 2
* Manual handling
* Safe handling and administering of medication
* Food and hygine
* Infection control
* Epilepsy awareness ( exceptions can be made and knowledge can be shared via induction)
* Safe guarding Adults awareness