Job title: Skills Support Worker
Salary: £25,185 - £25,989 pro rata
Hours: Various Hours per week (flexible hours available)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Various
Would you like to be part of something bigger and join us in our ambition to become the Best City, working together as a Team for Leeds. Do your values match ours and do you have something to offer?
Leeds City Council delivers over 500 different services to residents and is dedicated to bringing the benefits of a prosperous, vibrant and attractive city to the people of Leeds. This is a fantastic time to join us.
Benefits of working with us:
We pride ourselves on offering the best employee experience, with a genuine commitment to keeping our colleagues safe and well at work. You can expect great benefits whilst working for us including:
- a competitive pay progression structure including generous employer pension contributions
- flexible career paths with tailored personal and professional development
- support for you, your home and your family including personal, and financial support
- hybrid working arrangements (subject to needs of the role) and a flexitime system
For more information about our benefits please see the benefits section of our jobs page.
Introduction to the role of the team
SkILs reablement support helps people get their independence back at home after an illness, injury, or life change.
The SkILs Service supports adults with various requirements from a range of communities, using a person-centred approach, to enable them to maximise their independence and recovery.
Your role
The post holder will be community based, providing the service within customersown homes (you will need to be a car driver)
You will
- support people with everyday tasks like getting washed and dressed and becoming independent in doing this
- find new ways to enable people to do the activities they used to do
- build people confidence and support them to access the community facilities around them
What you will bring to the role
Candidates must demonstrate effective communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as possessing numeracy abilities. A commitment to equal opportunities, and an understanding of disability issues and some experience or knowledge of caring for people is essential. The posts require providing personal care using strength-based approaches and empowering individuals to achieve their potential.
To request an informal discussion about the role, please contact Catherine Smethurst on catherine.smethurst@leeds.gov.uk.
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.
We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.
This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visaroute before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.
Job Description
Job Purpose:
To provide support to adults with eligible reablement needs with personal care and daily living activities in line with an agreed reablement delivery plan in order that their independence choice control and social inclusion is maximized as part of a reablement intervention.
Responsibilities:
- To provide support with personal care utilising a person-centred approach to enable customers to maximise their independence and recovery.
- To support customers with daily living activities as identified in their support plan and as part of a package of support including personal care.
- To contribute to and utilise reablement delivery plans and person-centred risk assessments to promote independence in a safe environment.
- To carry out moving and handling including use of equipment.
- To support customers in the use of community equipment, telecare and adaptations.
- To contribute to reviews considering customer ongoing support needs.
- To support with medication as identified by a medication planner and maintain required records.
- To support customers to access the local amenities and the community outside of their home as part of a reablement plan.
- To promote dignity and wellbeing, and safeguard adults from abuse and ensure all safeguarding concerns are reported to line manager.
- To respect the confidential nature of the work and ensure that customers and carers are aware of the Councils policies relating to the customers access to files and to work within the appropriate information sharing agreements.
- To communicate with the customer, their family, carers and other professionals involved in their support as necessary.
- To attend and participate in meetings, training and supervision as required.
- To accurately complete all necessary documentation, written and electronic, records and reports as necessary and determined by the LCC procedures.
- To attend and participate in meetings, training and supervision as required.
- To work flexibly and as part of a team across the city.
- To deliver a high-quality service in line with CQC regulations and requirements.
- To assist with basic training and induction of colleagues and new starters.
- To participate in training and development activities (including reflective practice) as necessary to ensure up to date knowledge, skills and continuous professional development.
- To complete the Care Certificate within 12 weeks of commencement of the post.
- To actively respect and consider all cultural, religious, personal and social needs.
- To actively promote and support Leeds City Council Policies on Equal Opportunities and to work in an anti-oppressive manner.
- To comply with the requirements of all LCC policies procedures and staff instructions, including responsibilities for Health and Safety, Safeguarding Adults and Equality and Diversity.
- To undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade.
Qualifications
Candidates to undertake a Level 2 Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship within 12 months of commencement of the post.
Candidates to successfully complete the Care Certificate within 12 weeks of commencement into post
Successful candidates will be offered an opportunity to undertake a Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship.
PERSONAL SPECIFICATION
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS: It is essential that the Candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post within the context of the specific role duties and responsibilities: Candidates will only be shortlisted for interview if they can demonstrate on the application form that they meet all the essential requirements
Method of Assessment will be through one or more of the following Application Form, Test, Interview, and Certificate
Essential Behavioural and other Characteristics
- Understand and embrace Leeds City Council Values and Behaviours and codes of conduct.
- Committed to continuous improvement in all areas and work towards delivering the Best City Ambition of Health & Wellbeing, Inclusive Growth and Zero Carbon
- Able to understand and observe Leeds City Council equality and diversity policies.
- Carry out all duties having regard to an employee’s responsibility under Health and Safety Policies.
- Willingness to actively participate in training and development activities.
- Flexible and adaptable to change to assist other services as required commensurate to grade.
- Participate in appraisal, training, and development activities.
- Be aware of and comply with Leeds City Council policies and procedures.
- Be aware of and support difference ensuring equality for all, working in an anti-discriminatory manner, upholding, equality & diversity.
- Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, victimisation, and any form of abuse, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person.
- The Council has adopted a flexibility protocol and the role will be expected to work within these parameters.
Skills Required
- Ability to work with one or more of the following customer groups, older people, people who have physical and/or sensory impairments, people who have mental health problems, people who have learning difficulties and parents with children
- Ability to communicate and present varied information in the most appropriate formats and pass information effectively, accurately and concisely between various stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a supportive and enabling manner that focuses on supporting individual customers to achieve their goals during a short-term intervention.
- Ability to use a person-centred approach and contribute to and monitor support plans
- Ability to respond to rapid changes in customers skills and confidence and their support needs
- Ability to show empathy and patience when supporting customers.
- Ability to demonstrate personal and daily living skills and techniques
- Ability to work unsupervised and on one own initiative on a daily basis.
- Ability to work with and consider the needs of customers from diverse, multi-cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.
- Ability to undertake moving and handling
- Ability to travel around the city to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to work with a variety of electronic communications and technology.
- Must have valid driving licence and access to a vehicle
Knowledge Required
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of confidentiality and the needs and wishes of customers as appropriate.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the needs of older and disabled adults.
- Demonstrate an understanding of diversity issues within local communities.
- Demonstrate functional skills in literacy and numeracy at Level 1 or equivalent
- Requirement to do the Care Certificate within 12 weeks of commencement of the post
- Commitment to undertake a Level 2 Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship within 12 months commencement of the post.
- Local knowledge of the area.
- Of the social model of disability.
- Of Health and Safety at work policies
- Of moving and handling techniques
Experience Required
- Of working with people and supporting people in a paid or voluntary capacity
- Of working as part of a team
- Of working with older or disabled people in a social care or health setting
