HART Support Workers

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RL - although travel across the county will be required as part of the role

Recruitment Areas - Charnwood, North West Leicestershire, Blaby/ Lutterworth, Melton, Wigston/Market Harborough

Worker Category: Field Based Worker

Salary: £23,898 - £24,300 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Working Hours: Between 15 and 30 hours

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 31st December 2024

Interview Date(s): To be arranged

Are you a dedicated, flexible, reliable, and enthusiastic care professional with a passion for supporting people within their own homes? If so, then a role within our Home Care Assessment and Reablement Team (HART) might be right up your street.

About the Role

The HART service helps people to return home from hospital or prevents them from being admitted, by supporting them to regain their independence. As a HART Support Worker in HART, you will provide short, intensive reablement support to people with disabilities and those who are frail and recovering from illness or injury, focusing on helping them to restore their optimum level of independence. You will be required to motivate them to help them build their confidence by identifying their goals and providing positive feedback about their progress and achievements.

The support you provide may include helping with daily living tasks such as washing, dressing/undressing, showering, bathing, meal preparation, domestic activities, and engaging in community activities. You will also be required to support with identifying suitable assistive technology equipment and demonstrating its safe use, as well as advising on strategies for managing fatigue and pain, and preventing falls.

You will be required to work shifts on a rota that operates between 7.00am and 10.00pm including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

What we offer:

• Guaranteed contracted hours (between 15 and 30 hours per week and various geographical areas in Leicestershire).
• Rotas are organised well in advance; with alternate weekends off work.
• Mileage paid at 45p per mile.
• Opportunities to progress within a large public sector organisation.
• DBS check paid for by us.
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to staff wellbeing and counselling service.
• Access to an employee discount scheme, providing a whole host of retail discount including your supermarket weekly shop and gym membership!
• Work for an organisation which 95% of our staff say is a good employer.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Hold a Level 2/3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (or other relevant equivalent qualification) or an equivalent level of relevant experience.
• Be committed to delivering high standards of care/support in an anti-discriminatory manner.
• Be able to work effectively on your own as well as part of a team.
• Have basic IT skills sufficient to write and maintain records.
• Be able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing and record relevant and accurate observations.
• Be able to work under pressure and to remain calm in crisis situations.
• Be willing to attend relevant job-related training as required.

We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Jane Wesson, Quality & Recruitment Manager

Telephone:0116 305 3218

Email: [email protected]

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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