Cerebral Palsy Support Worker
Job Description
Job summary
Libertatem Healthcare Group is seeking a female Cerebral Palsy Support Worker to join their team in Caldicot, Monmouthshire. The role involves providing comprehensive care and support to a young female client with complex needs, including cerebral palsy and brain injury. The successful candidate will have previous experience in similar roles, excellent communication skills, and a compassionate, patient, and empathetic nature.
Main duties of the job
The Cerebral Palsy Support Worker will be responsible for supporting and engaging with the client's personalized routines, including the use of hoists. They will assist with daily living activities, such as personal hygiene and mobility, administer medication, and monitor the client's health conditions. The role also involves providing emotional support and companionship, maintaining accurate records, and collaborating with healthcare professionals and family members to ensure comprehensive care.
About us
Libertatem Healthcare Group is a national provider of care and support services for clients who have sustained personal injuries or suffered from medical negligence. They are dedicated to putting their clients' independence at the center of everything they do, and their care philosophy is based on independence, communication, and their people.
Job responsibilities
Come Join Our Team!
We have an excellent opportunity for a female support worker to work alongside our client in Caldicot, Monmouthshire.
Our client is a lady in her 20's who lives at home with her parents, in a self contained interconnecting bungalow from the main house. She enjoys crafts, music, swimming and baking. She also attends hydrotherapy and physiotherapy.
Due to the clients support needs and preference the successful candidate will need to be female with previous experience working with complex needs and brain injury/cerebral palsy and possess the softer skills of being a clear communicator with the motivation and ability to engage the client to build a solid, supporting relationship.
Pay: £16.50 per hour days & £17.60 per hour nights.
Hours: Bank (Likely shifts to cover: 09:30 - 17:00 days & 21:00 - 08:00/09:00 nights, Monday - Sunday)
Key Responsibilities:
The Libertatem Healthcare Group (part of Sonderwell) was established to provide the very best levels of care and support for clients who have sustained personal injuries or suffered from medical negligence. Operating on a national basis, we provide our clients with care and support wherever they are located. Our packages put our client's independence at the very centre of everything we do.
- Supporting, and engaging with personalised routines inclusive of hoists.
- Completing daily living activities, including personal hygiene and mobility.
- Administering medication and monitoring health conditions.
- Providing emotional support and companionship.
- Maintaining accurate records of care provided and reporting any changes in clients' conditions.
- Collaborating with a range of healthcare professionals and family members to ensure comprehensive care.
Requirements:
- A genuine passion for working with people and providing care.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Compassionate, patient, and empathetic nature.
- Reliability, commitment, and flexibility.
- Previous experience in a similar role, preferably in complex care.
- To be able to deal with challenging behaviours.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Libertatem's care philosophy is based on independence, communication and our people, we're dedicated to providing our clients with the best possible support and our people with the tools to achieve it. If you are looking for a rewarding role, where you can make a real difference in someone's life, we would love to hear from you. For more information contact Daniel.Scratcher@libertatemhealthcare.co.uk
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Our Safeguarding Commitment
Libertatem Healthcare Group recognise the benefits of people and organisations working together to prevent and stop both the risks and experience of abuse or neglect, whilst balancing the right to be safe with the right to make informed choices. At the same time, making sure that both adult's and children's wellbeing is promoted including taking into consideration their views, wishes, feelings and beliefs in deciding on any action. With this in mind, we will work to adhere to the six key principles that underpin all safeguarding work.
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Enviva Complex Care
Address
Libertatem Healthcare Group
Caldicot
NP25 3NJ
