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Support Practitioner
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Main area: Social Services
Grade: Local pay scale
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 828-PROVIDE4285
Employer: Provide Care Solutions LTD
Employer type: Public (Non NHS)
Site: Fern Lodge
Town: Braintree
Salary: £13.02
This post will also attract enhancements.
Salary period: Hourly
Closing: 30/09/2026 08:00
Job Overview
Fern Lodge is a small care home providing living accommodation for up to 8 adults with learning disabilities, set in extensive grounds and gardens. Each resident has their own large room with a bedroom, living area, and ensuite bathroom. There are currently seven people living at Fern Lodge with a variety of needs. Your working day will be varied, interesting, and rewarding, with opportunities to participate in a variety of training opportunities and develop yourself.
Within the same grounds is Cypress Gardens, incorporating 12 individual supported living flats where you will enable individuals to develop their ability to maintain independence and grow in confidence through support and encouragement. There are a variety of shifts and hours available including weekdays, weekends, and waking nights so we can flexibly meet the needs of the people who live here.
Main duties of the job
Duties And Responsibilities
- Support individuals with learning disabilities to the highest standard towards meeting agreed outcomes.
- Support individuals to maintain their own home, living a fulfilled, happy life.
- Support individuals with personal care ensuring privacy, dignity, and respect are maintained.
- Support individuals to create and maintain a living environment that feels like their own home.
- Support and encourage individuals to make choices and life decisions in line with the Mental Capacity Act requirements.
- Assist individuals to engage in everyday home, social, leisure, and work activities.
- Support individuals with their health needs.
- Keep up to date and accurate records, maintaining confidentiality.
- Support individuals with their finances.
- Look for opportunities to use assistive technology to increase the persons independence.
- Ensure that any incidents particularly those which may relate to safeguarding are reported.
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Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive, and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes, and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families, and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia, and the North of England.
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation, and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee-owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring, and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.
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This post is eligible to join the GPP Scheme.
Role Summary
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role is to enhance the quality of life of residents within the Supported Living Scheme by providing individualized care and support, maximizing health, wellbeing, and independence.
Support workers undertake a variety of care and support tasks defined by the resident including personal care, maintaining and developing relationships with families and friends, pursuing opportunities for work and education, also ensuring that the service user can access their chosen activities and pursue their own interests, whilst being supported by a person of their choosing.
Support Workers also provide full proactive and active support to individuals during difficult situations of challenging behavior in line with their support plans and risk assessments. As part of a team support workers work closely together to develop and deliver high-quality care standards in line with the residents' desired outcomes ensuring consistent approaches and support at all times. Support workers will have a positive, empathetic, and enabling outlook in delivering individualized support and care for all residents.
Support workers represent the organisation in a variety of multi-disciplinary settings and therefore must present themselves professionally at all times. You may also be expected to work across all services as part of your role to meet the needs of the individuals requiring our care and support.
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