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About the Role
You will provide 1:1, group support to adults with mental health needs, learning disabilities, and other complex needs, helping tenants to develop their independence and achieve their personal goals. This is a rewarding opportunity to gain valuable experience in adult social care while completing your Level 3 Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing 1:1 and group support to tenants
- Building positive, trusting, and professional relationships with tenants
- Supporting tenants to achieve their personal, social, leisure, learning, and employment goals
- Encouraging and supporting independence in everyday life
- Supporting tenants with shopping and budgeting
- Helping tenants with meal preparation, cooking, and healthy eating
- Supporting tenants to maintain a safe, clean, and secure home
- Supporting tenants to attend GP, dental, optical, and other health appointments
- Encouraging tenants to take part in social activities and community activities
- Supporting tenants with personal care where required
- Supporting health and wellbeing
- Assisting with medication procedures following appropriate training
- Supporting individual Support Plans, Risk Assessments, and Health Action Plans
- Helping tenants with tenancy-related responsibilities
- Supporting health and safety checks within properties
- Completing accurate records and support notes following support sessions
- Completing incident reports and other relevant documentation
- Liaising with families, carers, managers, and other professionals
- Attending staff meetings, supervision, and multi-agency meetings where required
- Following safeguarding, confidentiality, health and safety, and other organizational policies
- Completing mandatory and apprenticeship training
- Developing your own knowledge, skills, and professional practice throughout the apprenticeship
Training
You will be encouraged to learn from experienced colleagues and gradually take on greater responsibility as your confidence and competence develops. Most of your apprenticeship is spent working, learning on the job by getting hands-on experience. Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training where you’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider and Course
- Training Provider: ROCHDALE TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
- Training Course: Lead adult care worker (level 3)
Course Contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Take the initiative when working outside normal duties and responsibilities
- Recognise and access help when not confident or skilled in any aspect of the role that they are undertaking
- Implement/facilitate the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory, and physical impairments
- Contribute to the development and ongoing review of care/support plans for the individuals they support
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to exercise choice on how they are supported
- Encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure that individuals know what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Lead and support colleagues to understand how to establish informed consent when providing care and support
- Guide, mentor, and contribute to the development of colleagues in the execution of their duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrate dignity in their working role with individuals they support, their families, carers, and other professionals
- Support others to understand the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion in social care
- Exhibit empathy for individuals they support, i.e., understanding and compassion
- Exhibit courage in supporting individuals in ways that may challenge their own cultural and belief systems
- Demonstrate and promote to other workers excellent communication skills including confirmation of understanding to individuals, their families, carers, and professionals
- Use and facilitate methods of communication preferred by the individual they support according to the individual’s language, cultural, and sensory needs, wishes, and preferences
- Take the initiative and reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate and ensure that records and reports are written clearly and concisely
- Lead and support others to keep information safe, preserve confidentiality in accordance with agreed ways of working
- Support others, to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of abuse
- Lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
- Recognise, report, respond to and record unsafe practices and encourage others to do so
- Lead and mentor others where appropriate to promote the wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Promote healthy eating and wellbeing by supporting individuals to have access to fluids, food, and nutrition
- Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others to do so
- Develop risk assessments and use in a person-centred way to support individuals safely including moving and assisting people and objects
- Manage, monitor, report, and respond to changes in the health and wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Take the initiative to identify and form professional relationships with other people and organisations
- Demonstrate, manage, and support self and others to work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Take the initiative to evaluate and improve own skills and knowledge through reflective practice, supervision, feedback, and learning opportunities
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
- Carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others
- Demonstrate where necessary mentoring and supervision to others in the workplace
- Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills
- Demonstrate their contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes
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Qualifications and Skills
- Desirable qualifications: GCSE in: English (grade 4) Maths (grade 4). Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience.
- Skills: Communication skills, IT skills, Organisation skills, Customer care skills, Team working.
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Company Overview
Newbarn Ltd provides supported housing and support services for vulnerable adults across the Rochdale area, supporting people with mental health needs, learning disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Conditions, and other complex needs. Newbarn's approach focuses on helping tenants to feel safe, secure, and supported while developing their independence and enabling them to achieve their personal, social, leisure, learning, and employment goals.
Career Development
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to build a rewarding career in adult social care. You will gain hands-on experience supporting people with a range of complex needs while completing a nationally recognised Level 3 Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship. You will be supported by experienced colleagues and given the opportunity to develop your confidence, communication skills, and understanding of person-centred care in a real working environment. Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Successful completion of the apprenticeship could lead to a permanent Support Worker position with Newbarn, subject to performance and business requirements. The qualification and experience gained could also provide opportunities to progress within adult social care into more senior or specialist support roles.
Contact Information
For inquiries about this apprenticeship, contact:
- Nathan Finn
- Email: nfinn@rochdaletraining.co.uk
- Phone: 01706631417
- Reference Code: VAC2000051164
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