Learning Disability Care Worker - Nights

Job Title: Learning Disability Waking Night Care Worker

Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Hours: 10 hours per week

Pay: £12.35 per hour

Are you interested in working for a charity that has been changing the lives of older people and those with learning disabilities and dementia for over 25 years?

We’d love to hear from you!

The Fremantle Trust have an exciting opportunity for a Learning Disability Care Worker to join our team based at our Learning Disability service in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire for 10 hours per week.

Our Learning Disability services provide innovative and person-centred care for adults with a Learning Disability through a tailored support programme. Our principle is to give every single person we support the toolkit they need to live life to the full and as independently as possible. Through our residential care services, we offer people the very best facilities, combined with the highest quality of care and support provided by our exceptional and highly dedicated team.

Principle tasks will include:

· Provide respectful high-quality support and care for people who use Fremantle services in accordance with their individual Support Plans and Risk assessments.

· As key worker for individual people who use services, develop with their participation a person-centred Support Plan ensuring that their assessed needs and wishes are comprehensively met. Ensure the Plan is kept up to date, obtaining appropriate input from relatives, other professionals and colleagues.

· Practically assist people who use services with tasks of daily living such as personal care and mobility, and end of life care, as directed in the Support Plan.

· Support people who use services to take their medication as prescribed and recorded in the individual Medication Administration Record and be able to order and audit medication on behalf of the person receiving a service.

· Ensure that people who use services have companionship and social, emotional, leisure, occupational and educational support in accordance with their wishes and the Support Plan.

· Ensure that people who use services receive planned or urgent health care whenever required.

· Record essential information for people who use services’ i.e. daily reports, care and health monitoring charts, accident and incident reports, and service message systems clearly, accurately and immediately.

· Actively recognise and identify risk and implement risk management plans.

· Recognise abuse and take appropriate action to protect vulnerable people.

This list of duties and responsibilities is by not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as reasonably required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.

Data Protection

The post holder must always respect the confidentiality of information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. This includes, if required to do so, obtain, process and/or use information held on a computer in a fair and lawful way, to hold data only for the specified registered purposes and to use or disclose data only to authorised persons or organisations as instructed.

The Fremantle Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation or age.