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About the Role
New Steps is a day care provider for people with disabilities. Your role will be to provide care and support to people with differing needs. You will have a person-centred approach, giving individuals opportunities to access the community and support with activities within our base while maintaining respect and dignity at all times.
What You'll Do at Work
Your role will support the day-to-day operations in providing care and support to people with a range of differing needs, delivering high-quality, person-centred care to individuals. The successful candidate will gain valuable hands-on experience and new skills, working alongside experienced staff.
Primary Responsibilities
- Attend to all personal care needs, in line with individual requirements of the service user
- Use specialist equipment to ensure all care needs are met
- Follow requirements of the care plan, support plan, risk management plan, etc. as appropriate
- Encourage individuals to participate in activities and support individuals in those activities
- Develop/contribute to the development of activities that are of benefit/interest to the individual
- Work to all policies and procedures, e.g. safeguarding, infection control, health and safety, etc.
- Work as a keyworker
- Participate and contribute to service user reviews
- Work independently with service users as required – either within a care or community setting, escorting on transport, etc.
- Support people to access community-based activities, reflecting their choices and interests, including the use of public resources and transport
- Complete and maintain documentation relevant to the service and the service user
- Highlight any areas of concern to a senior member of staff
- Maintain a clean and tidy environment
- Ensure service users feel respected and fully involved in their care
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Training
Training will be through course worksheets and mentoring by other qualified staff.
Course Contents
- Apply national standards, organisational policies and procedures, codes of conduct and ways of working that apply to own role.
- Follow national legislation, policies and guidance in adult social care settings, relating to health and safety within the scope of own role.
- Consider the human rights of individuals in adult social care settings, in line with organisational policies relating to equity, diversity and inclusion to support an open culture.
- Demonstrate a duty of candour, and duty of care acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
- Apply a person-centred, co-produced approach when developing relationships with individuals to support their health and wellbeing.
- Assist with conducting risk assessments, which focus on positive risk-taking, to ensure the safety of yourself and others.
- Apply the principles of positive and proactive care and support for those with lived experience to proactively avoid or reduce escalation, de-escalate, and manage conflict.
- Customise information, advice and guidance to individuals with or without capacity or their representative to make informed, independent choices and decisions.
- Adapt approach to care and support for individuals with lived experience to meet their current and evolving cognitive and physical needs and conditions.
- Recognise and respect how an individual's capacity determines their ability to make informed decisions about their needs.
- Identify and respond to signs and symptoms of changes in the physical and mental capacity, mental health and wellbeing of those with lived experience, and monitor, record and report changes.
- Use appropriate communication methods that are adapted to respond to the needs of individuals, stakeholders and family members in adult social care settings, including verbal, written, non-verbal and digital communication.
- Develop personal resilience and access support to maintain wellbeing of self.
- Use record keeping systems to maintain clear and accurate records of interactions with individuals, and others ensuring security of information and data.
- Apply methods of digital working and communication and new care technologies to support improvements in own work setting.
- Record learning opportunities in line with organisational policies that support lifelong learning and meet the relevant standards.
- Record, use feedback and supervision to improve own practice to identify and support the development of individual goals and career opportunities.
- Contribute and agree to the personal development plan demonstrating support required for new learning goals and reflection on actual practice.
- Monitors safe and effective administration of medicines in accordance with national and organisational policies and the limitations of own role.
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Training Schedule
Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Level 2 (GCSE)
Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate
Training will be delivered in the workplace
Desirable Qualifications
- GCSE in English (grade 4)
- GCSE in Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Subject to passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Where You'll Work
UNIT 9
TURN PARK
STATION ROAD
CHESTER LE STREET
DH3 3DY
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE
Apprenticeship Recruitment Team
apprenticeships@derwentside.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000048048.
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