Job Details

Job introduction

We are looking for an experienced Home Care Support Worker to work with us at 15 Preston Drove in the Preston Park area of Brighton, we provide 24 hour 7 day a week support for 5 adults who have a learning disability. We provide a homely environment and our dedicated team of staff work hard to ensure that our residents’ specific needs are met in a caring and sensitive manner and skills are developed in a way that promotes their independence. Our service users have lived in the home for ten years and are happily settled.

Interview date: TBA

For an informal discussion, please contact Bill Demel - on 01273 294310.

About the role

Our last CQC inspection rated the service as “good” noting that family and carers were very happy with the staff team and the service that is provided to their family member.

Our service users receive 121 staffing during waking hours and we have one staff member sleep-in at night. Our early shifts start at either 7 or 8am and finish at either 2.30pm or 3pm, our late shifts start at 2pm and end at either 9 or 10pm.

We provide and support people with personal care, at mealtimes, with lots of activities within the home and in the community. Our service users do not communicate verbally but are good communicators in other ways, sociable and enjoy lots of interaction. We are a small home and all staff share tasks such as cooking, cleaning and laundry.

We are a Covid secure home as one of our service users is very vulnerable to Covid, so we adhere to Covid safeworking guidance, we have had Covid vaccinations and undertake weekly Covid testing.

 It would be good if you had a driver’s license.  

Contact details, for an informal discussion, are:

Manager:  Bill Demel bill.demel@brighton-hove.gov.uk

House phone: 01273 294310

You will be very well supported in your role through supervision and training. Training covers a range of courses include manual handling, food hygiene, infection control and more specialised courses where appropriate.

As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and upload a supporting statement. Your supporting statement is the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Supporting statement guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Work Permits: This role does not meet the requirement for UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Successful candidates will need to evidence that they have the Right to Work in the UK.

Role working in a CQC Setting  

Regulations now require all staff who undertake work within CQC registered care homes to be fully vaccinated against Covid 19, unless they satisfy one of the medical/legal exemptions.  Being fully vaccinated or being medically/legally exempt will be a condition of your employment and you will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status or medical/legal exemption as part of the recruitment process for this role

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Company information

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Files

• Applicant Cover Letter
• Job Description and Person Specification