About this role
Job summary
As a Day Opportunities Support Worker, you'll be supporting young adults with learning disabilities, each with their own unique needs, abilities and interests. You'll help them engage in fun, personalised activities that build social networks, promoting choice and inclusion whilst ensuring they are safe and well.
Main duties of the job
Engage in fulfilling personalised activities: Support service users to take part in activities tailored to their individual physical, mental, social and emotional needs, such as sensory experiences, cooking, arts and crafts, gardening, bowling, trips to the cinema and sharing their hobbies.Help with daily living activities: Support service users with eating, drinking, mobility, personal care and medication, ensuring everyone is treated with dignity and respect.Provide tailored support: Support wheelchair users with moving and positioning activities, as well as supporting service users who present challenging behaviours through positive behaviour support, following robust induction and training.Promote community involvement: Support service users in their involvement in local community projects, helping them to integrate and develop important social networks.Build relationships: Establish positive connections with service users, celebrating their achievements and milestones.
About us
You may already have experience of providing care, but its not essential - we provide all the training you need to be a great Day Opportunities Support Worker. Whats more important to us is that you have the right values, skills and motivations to enable people to lead full and active lives as independently as possible.
Patience and dedication: A genuine desire to help others and make a positive and lasting difference to their lives. Your commitment to promoting independence, will empower our service users to learn, grow in confidence and enjoy a wide range of interesting activities. Empathy and compassion: Understand and share the feelings of others to build trust and provide emotional support. Flexible and resilient: Responsive, flexible and able to work without direct supervision. Resilient under pressure and can adapt positively to changing situations and demands. Communication skills: Clear and effective communicator and the ability to interact with service users with a diverse range of complex communication and sensory support needs. Team player: Enjoy working closely with others to provide the best support possible.
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Person Specification
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Knowledge, Skills and Experience Essential
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Hampshire County Council
Address Elizabeth II Court
The Castle
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 8UB
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hants.gov.uk/jobs (Opens in a new tab)