Support Worker

Start time: ASAP

Full Time

11.44 P/H
Purpose of job:

� To provide responsive, consistent, and effective support to young people, in line with their individual needs, within a semi-independent context.

� To actively promote the rights of each young person and to maintain an environment which is proactively anti-oppressive, and which acknowledges and values diversity.

� To operate within the Policies and procedures as defined by Fairview and ensure a living and learning environment which offers opportunities, and which promotes self -development, personal achievement, and resilience.

� To ensure, through the application of consistent, effective working practices, the positive safeguarding and welfare of each young person.

Main Duties: Support Worker

� Support the maintenance of an inclusive, anti-oppressive and caring living environment.

� Promote positive, trusting, and meaningful relationships with young people.

� Promote, safeguard, and maintain the wellbeing of each young person, residing with Fairview.

� Function within a support working role and maintain all appropriate records.

� Maintain accurate and timely financial transaction records.

� Effective collaboration with all professionals, family members and others relevant to the individual young person.

� Delivery of the Fairview Independence Living Skills Programme to young people and maintain progression records.

� Active promotion of life skills, risk self-management and the knowledge base of young people.

� Ensuring all Safeguarding and CE issues are addressed effectively and in line with Policy and best practice.

� Understand the relevance of Person-Centred planning and apply this within the role.

� Prepare for and actively engage in professional supervision inclusive of reflective practice.

� Undertake all relevant administrative tasks, including Risk assessments, daily recordings, timed progress reports and others as appropriate.

� Contribute to the ongoing development of Risk Management strategies and protocols for individual young people.

� Attend and contribute to staff meetings, and training.

� Receive and deliver effective handovers.

� Undertake relevant training/professional development opportunities as determined through the supervision process and the needs of Fairview.

� Support young people in accessing training/education and employment opportunities.

� Maintain currency of information, knowledge base and resources (including changes or addenda to legislation), which impact on young people.

� Ensuring Confidentiality and an effective compliance with the Data Protection Act.

� Ensuring compliance with Fairview Policies and Procedures.

� To work at all times within the Professional Boundaries/Code of Conduct framework as established by Fairview.

� Ensuring all Health and safety and Risk assessment checks are completed, recorded and any issues identified and reported to line manager.

� Completion of generic cleaning tasks to an appropriate standard.

� Demonstrate resilience, and positivity when addressing conflict resolution.

� To work within the ON DUTY rota framework operating across 7 days and includes sleep ins and occasionally waking nights in line with the needs of the company.

Person Specification: Support Worker

Experience: essential

� Current/recent experience of working with young people

� Experience of the supporting the developmental needs of young people

� Experience recording and reporting.

� Experience of working to achieve outcomes.

� Experience of multi-agency working and information sharing.

� Experience of risk management.

Knowledge: essential

� An understanding of current legislation in regard to the rights of children and young people leaving care

� Knowledge and understanding of issues that affect young people

� An understanding of Safeguarding and CE.

� Knowledge of GDPR

� An understanding of Diversity and Equal Opportunities

� Knowledge of Health and safety issues.

� An understanding of Person-Centred working.

Qualifications: essential:

� Qualified to Level 3 Children and Young People (or equivalent), or willingness to work towards this within 12 months from take up of post.

Skills /Abilities: essential:

� Effective communication skills-verbal and written.

� Ability to proactively generate and maintain positive relationships with young people.

� Organisational skills and abilities.

� Ability to undertake all relevant administrative tasks to an appropriate standard.

� Computer literate and competent in the use of IT.

� Possess skills in mediation and able to seek and achieve positive conflict resolution.

� Ability to reach decisions independently, based on professional values and best working practice, including Risk Management.

� Ability to contribute positively to meetings and developmental opportunities.

� Possess a range of interpersonal skills.

� Ability to display resilience, adaptability, and motivational skills.

� Ability to work in an inclusive, empathic, respectful, and aware working style.

� Possess a commitment to supporting an anti-oppressive environment which positively values diversity.

� Ability to operate within a Lone worker setting.

Please apply with your CV. Interviews are being processed ASAP!