Day and Night Support Coordinator
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Job Location:
Camden Town - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
3 months contract with local authority
Job Purpose:
- Provide support to individuals with disabilities to help them achieve their planned goals and outcomes.
- Deliver high-quality support including physical and emotional assistance and personal care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate in care planning monitoring and review processes.
- Promote equality of opportunity choice privacy dignity rights and independence.
- Support customers in developing and maintaining relationships and attending to their wellbeing needs.
- Organize and lead activities in the community and the service.
- Adhere to organizational policies and procedures.
- Ensure the safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
- Engage positively in the supervision and appraisal process for performance management.
People Management Responsibilities:
- Work effectively with internal and external stakeholders including customers relatives friends professionals colleagues and community members.
Work Environment:
- Work in a busy vibrant supported living service being flexible to adapt to changing needs and demands of customers.
- Provide hands-on support in all areas of daily living including personal care and medication administration.
- Handle customers who may display challenging behaviors.
- Adhere to universal precautions to prevent the spread of infection.
- Availability to work across seven days including evenings weekends bank holidays and sleep-in cover.
Technical Knowledge and Experience:
- Essential: NVQ Level 2 manual handling safe handling and administering of medication food and hygiene infection control epilepsy awareness safeguarding adults awareness.
- Desirable: NVQ 3 or above lone working dealing with challenging behaviors.
- Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Plan and support people in accessing activities or devise programs for those at home.
- Record information write concise reports and undertake safe manual handling.
- Demonstrable knowledge of Valuing People Now Personalization and Person-Centered Approaches and understanding of social care economics.
- Experience in paid or unpaid work with people with learning disabilities.
Requirements
Requirements:
- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent
- Manual handling certification
- Safe handling and administering of medication certification
- Food and hygiene certification
- Infection control certification
- Epilepsy awareness certification
- Safeguarding adults awareness certification
- Experience in paid or unpaid work with people with learning disabilities
Requirements: Full-time availability for a year Ability to work 36 hours per week Resilient and able to thrive in challenging situations Attention to detail and creative problem-solving skills Comfortable with confrontation and able to deal with difficult situations Availability for out-of-hours meetings and lone working Daily use of a car and a full driving license
Key Skills
- Internal Control
- Academics
- Corporate Marketing
- Autocad
- Java
- Arbitration
