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Job description

Assist service users with activities of daily living and facilitate inclusion of service users in a broad range of activities. Support service users with identified personal care and support needs. Please see employer website for full job details & person specification.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all work within the scheme is service user focused and upholds the principles of respect, privacy, dignity, fulfilment, independence, and choice.
• Orientate new service users to the supported living scheme and the local community, including introduction to neighbours as appropriate.
• Deliver individual programmes of support, for example, social and domestic guidance, personal care, and community living skills designed to enhance and maximise the capabilities and independence of the service users.
• Assist senior staff with assessment of service users’ needs.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• A minimum of 6 months caring experience (paid employment or personal caring responsibilities).
• Effective verbal and written communication to include numeracy skills.
• Interest in working with people in a care environment.
• Awareness of the needs of people with learning and physical disabilities.

Further Information

Work Time: Rota based, to be confirmed. Support Workers are required to work flexibly and be available to work unsociable hours and public holidays on a rotational basis. West Belfast Living Options provides supported living accommodation for adults over the age of 18 with a Learning Disability, complex needs and/or Autism. There are a range of sites including bungalows and apartments across West Belfast. The support provided ranges from 1 hr to 24 hrs per day. The  support and guidance includes all daily living tasks, personal care and support, leisure, social skills and household management.