Night Support Worker

Support Worker- Nights

Salary: Band: 4, £25,201 - £26,473 (£13,622 - £14,309 for 20 hours) plus 33% shift enhancement depending on rota.

1 x 20 hours per week

Rota: Week one: Wednesday 21:30pm into Thursday 07:30am, Week two: Monday 21:30pm into Tuesday 07:30am, Friday 21:30pm into Saturday 07:30am, Saturday 21:30pm into Sunday 07:30.

Your New Role

Using a person centred approach you will look after the physical, emotional, cultural and social needs of service users. This will include personal care, assisting clients at meal times and all aspects of daily living. The right applicants will be providing person centred care in the form of social activities which promotes the individual's mental health and wellbeing and improves their quality of life.

You will be a key worker to specific individuals taking responsibility to ensure information about their health and wellbeing is recorded and communicated to the assistant managers and others as per our legal requirement under the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC fundamental standards information is availablehere. http://www.cqc.org.uk/what-we-do/how-we-do-our-job/fundamental-standards. It will be your responsibility to ensure monitoring and hourly checks with detailed recording on daily record sheets of your observations are carried out on residents throughout the day and night and their care needs are met.

As a Night Support Worker supporting vulnerable adults you must be open and transparent. Should something go wrong or you witness unsafe practice, you have a responsibility (Duty of Candour) to ensure you raise this concern with a manager immediately. (fundamental standard 12).

There will be the need for light food preparation.

Who is the person summary:

You will need to have the ability to converse at ease with residents with cognitive impairment and provide advice in accurate spoken English. You will have patience and empathy with an understanding of the needs of people with different types of learning disabilities. You will have experience in a caring role as a formal paid or unpaid carer with the ability to deal with emergencies in a confident manner. You will be flexible and adaptable being able to use your own initiative and make decisions. You will have an understanding of the importance of You will be required to take part in training (on and off site) some of which is mandatory and must be successfully completed within your probationary period. This will contribute towards your framework and study for an apprenticeship at level 2/3 in Social care and undertake learning to complete the Care Certificate. You will understand the principles of client confidentiality and data protection.

For full details, please review 'who is the person' on the job profile below attached.

Our recruitment process

Full information about our recruitment process can be found on our support for applicants' page:Support for applicants - Careers portal

You must demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person'points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.If you apply without a detailed personal statement, it is unlikely that you will be successful.

We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found atEquality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contactrecruit@portsmouthcc.gov.ukor call the recruitment team on 023 92 616 800.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our career's portal homepage:Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) at Standard/Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Please read the relevant DBSprivacy noticebefore submitting any information.

You will need to explain any gaps in your career history within the last 5 years - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.