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Independent Living Support Worker

4Recruitment Services
Posted 5 days ago, valid for 10 days
Location

Whitehaven, Cumbria CA28 7RF, England

Contract type

Part Time

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  • 4Recruitment Services is seeking an Independent Living Support Worker for a young people's service in Cumbria.
  • The role offers an umbrella rate of £13.00 - £16.00 per hour for 37.5 hours per week.
  • Candidates must have previous experience in a care and support environment and be willing to work on a client’s rota.
  • Key responsibilities include co-producing support plans, assisting with daily living skills, and promoting opportunities for employment and education.
  • Applicants should possess knowledge of psychological approaches to support and demonstrate a caring, empathetic attitude.
Support Worker – Independent living – CumbriaAre you a passionate Independent Living Support Worker looking for your next role? 4Recruitment Services are currently recruiting for an Independent Living Support Worker for a young people’s service in Cumbria.  Umbrella Rate: £13.00 - £16.00 per hour  Information on the Role: Successful candidates will be offered 37.5 hours per week, must have previous experience and be willing to work on the client’s rota. What you will be doing: 
  • Leading on Co-producing bespoke support and move-on plans, involving key stakeholders (e.g. family/other support providers), where appropriate.
  • Organizing and carrying out regular planned reviews of support and risk plans or following an incident/significant change in a customer’s circumstances.
  • Engaging customers to meet agreed outcomes and develop life skills.
  • Assisting customers with day-to-day support and tenancy-related matters.
  • Identifying and promoting opportunities for employment, education and training and supporting customers to remove barriers to accessing these opportunities.
  • Signposting customers to appropriate external support services, including interventions such as food banks and other community resources.
  • Supporting customers to be ‘tenancy ready’ to enable successful move on.
  • Supporting customers to be financially independent through budgeting plans and maximizing income.
  • Supporting and monitoring customers’ healthcare needs, ensuring appropriate contact with healthcare professionals.
  • Empowering customers to move towards self-management of their medication by following the medication procedure.
  • Leading on support initiatives including Group Work.
  • Ensure the safety of our customers by following local safeguarding procedures, recognizing and acting on any significant risk, and escalating appropriately.
  • Record and update clear, factual, accurate, strengths-based customer information on the local or appropriate digital platform
  Skills & Professional Characteristics needed:
  • Knowledge of Psychological or Trauma Informed approaches to support.
  • Experience of working in challenging environments with the ability to plan, prioritize, organize tasks to achieve results.
  • Knowledge of current benefit systems.
  • Experience of working in a care and support environment.
Essential Requirements:
  • An understanding of the barriers faced by vulnerable and diverse customer groups and individuals with complex needs.
  • Experience of delivering structured support and risk management.
  • Be a team player with a caring, empathetic, flexible and have a resilient, can-do attitude.
  • Previous experience in positively resolving incidents.
  • Demonstrate initiative and confidence to make and act on decisions.
  • Competent administrative and IT skills (to be able to produce reports and other communications).
What we offer:
  • 24 hour one on one specialist consultant based within your geographical area
  • 4Recruitment Services Employee Benefits Programme
  • Our own dedicated payroll support ensuring you get the full benefits of your payment
 Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.To discuss this vacancy in further detail or any other vacancies, please contact our Team on or email .

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.