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Kirklees Branch

Care Workers

Job Purpose:

• To provide a range of personal, social, emotional and practical care tasks as required for the well-being of service users and their carers
• To work towards an assessed and planned package of support, care or maintenance programme, enabling service users and their carers to exercise control over their own lives by maximising their independence
• To provide a degree of social and emotional support to the service user
• To provide a culturally and ethnically sensitive service which is integral to the provision of home care

Duties:

Experience is not essential as full training will be provided. The successful applicants duties will include personal care, shopping, preparing meals & other associated tasks within the clients home. We expect our carers to provide a high standard of care to all our clients at all times.

Sevacare offer a good competitive salary & the chance to work within our existing dynamic and friendly team. Different shift patterns are available working from 16 to 40 hours per week between the hours of 7am and 10pm daily.

This position is subject to an enhanced CRIMINAL RECORD DISCLOSURE.

If you are interested in this position please use our online application form or call 0800 042 9999 or email recruitment@sevacare.org.uk

Support Workers

Job Purpose:

The supported living service aims to provide the highest standards and quality of life for people with learning disabilities, ensuring tenants/residents/service users live as normal a life as possible in their own home with the support and care they need to provide maximum independence. All tenants/residents/service users will be treated as individuals and their individual cultural, religious and sexual diversity will be accepted and respected. It is expected that tenants/residents/service users will be consulted about all aspects of their daily life, including personal care, communal and household tasks, financial and social arrangements.

The support worker will be required to contribute to and work with the tenants/residents/service users as part of a multi-disciplinary service. At times, you may be required to act on your own showing self-motivation, initiative and flexibility.

Duties:

• To undertake required training as directed
• To provide support and meet the basic care needs of service users ensuring that personal dignity and rights are respected at all times
• To maintain high standards of support according to the needs of the individual, ensuring a high quality of life
• To ensure that support is provided to individuals in accordance with Sevacare policies and procedures
• To assist in the identification of individual needs and ensure that appropriate support is provided to meet these needs
• To provide support in all daily living activities engaged in by the individual
• With other members of the team provide a friendly supportive atmosphere in which individuals are encouraged to and enabled to develop a valued lifestyle

If you are interested in this position please use our online application form or call 0800 042 9999 or email recruitment@sevacare.org.uk