Reablement Support Worker

Job summary

We are looking for a Reablement Worker to join our Short-Term Support Service in the Southeast area, Blyth Community Hospital, on a permanent, part time basis, 30 hours.

The successful candidate will be part of a team providing short-term limited interventions to promote people's independence. The role typically involves visiting people in their own homes and supporting them to regain their ability to carry out a range of day-to-day tasks.

About us:

Our Short Term Support Service provides reablement and rehabilitation to adults living in their own homes to help them regain their independence after an illness, hospital discharge, or to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. We also provide a bridging service for people who are waiting for a long-term package of care. The service includes reablement and therapy staff working together to promote independence in daily living tasks, including the provision of equipment and rehabilitation programmes.

Our service is rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.

Main duties of the job

The role typically involves visiting people in their own homes and supporting them to regain their ability to carry out a range of day-to-day tasks.

You will work with people to set their personal goals and help them to achieve them. This could include helping them with personal care and meal preparation, improving their mobility within their home and helping them to get out into their community.

Your focus will be on helping people to regain their ability to live their best life, and the feeling of job satisfaction is second to none. Full training and supervision are provided and there are opportunities to develop a career in care.

Some staff have moved to management positions in care and others have developed careers in allied areas such as undertaking social work qualifications or moving into commissioning and quality assurance roles.

The main responsibilities include promoting independence with:

• Personal care including showering anddressing
• Medication
• Meal preparation
• Improving mobility within the home
• Shopping
• Laundry
• Support to getout and about in the community

If this post appeals to you and you have caring qualities and would like a job that makes a difference, within a team known for its outstanding service, then apply to join us!

About us

We are offering the following:

• Salaried posts with generous, competitive rates of pay with enhancements for unsociable hours and bank holidays - Band 4 £25,584 - £27,269 FTE (pro rata for part time employees) - £13.26 per hour
• Paid travel time and mileage in between visits
• Essential car user allowance
• Full training and supervision
• Uniform and all protective equipmentneeded
• Company mobile phone
• Free DBS check
• Company pension scheme
• Staff benefitsscheme
• Out of Hours support
• Annual Holiday entitlement (26 days annual leave plus public/bank holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years of service (pro rata for part-time employees)
• Excellent ongoing training and support
• Staff networks - run by staff, for staff, providing opportunities for peer networking, mutual support, staff development e.g. Apprenticeship, Armed Forces, ASD, Enable (disability), LGBT+, Menopause, Mental Wellbeing, Racial Equality

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