Health and Social Care - Support Worker Apprenticeship - Basildon

Are you looking for rewarding work where you can make a real difference in people’s lives?

Join our team in Basildon as a Support Worker and help offer daily support to people with mental health conditions who may also have other needs for which we provide support.

About the role:

We are currently recruiting support workers in Basildon. We provide care and support to adults with a range of learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism, and complex needs.

As a Support Worker, you’ll deliver excellent care, celebrate achievements, encourage fun and creativity, and engage directly with our wider community. This is more than just a job – you will be helping the people we support gain independence and live healthy, happy, and fulfilling lives.

Your role will include:

• Providing personal care.
• Administering medication.
• Dealing with challenging behaviour.
• Supporting daily living tasks such as cleaning, meal preparation, and budgeting.
• Encouraging the development of skills and engagement with their local community.
• Developing relationships with those involved in their care and personal well-being.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Course contents

• Apply national standards, organisational policies and procedures, codes of conduct, and ways of working that apply to your own role.
• Follow national legislation, policies, and guidance in adult social care settings, relating to health and safety within the scope of your 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 your 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 your 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.
• Monitor safe and effective administration of medicines in accordance with national and organisational policies and the limitations of your role.