Waking Night Support Worker

Hours: 30 hours per week

which includes nights, weekends, and Bank holidays.

Location: Milton Keynes

Salary: £ 12.60 per hour

Are you keen to make a positive contribution to the lives of adults with learning disabilities and autism?

Waking Nights Support workers play a key role in ensuring high-quality care and support during night hours in accordance with people’s needs.

The duties may include:

• Ensure residents experience a safe, healthy and purposeful environment, by CMKC policies and procedures, statutory requirements and residents’ individual Support Plans.

• Support residents in making their own decisions and informed choices and assist them in promoting and maintaining their independence.

• Ensure information communicated to residents is accessible to them.

• Support residents with their personal care, toileting and mobility needs, including, where required, support with moving and handling and the use of mobility aids and equipment.

• Monitor and respond to medical or health needs and, when authorised, administer medication safely and support therapeutic aims in accordance with Camphill MK’s policies and procedures.

• Prepare healthy snacks and drinks with and for residents as directed in the Support Plan.

• Provide social and emotional support and appropriate intervention for distressed residents.

• Make and change beds and tidy bedrooms, launder bedding and towels of residents to a high standard in accordance with the Infection Control Policy.

• Support residents to maintain their tenancy and look after their home which they share with other people, e.g. complete domestic tasks and maintain a clean and safe home environment.

• Maintain accurate residents’ daily reports; care, support and health monitoring and assessment documents; accident and incident reports; health and safety records, and communication systems clearly, accurately and timely.

• Ensure additional administrative systems and processes are maintained as requested by the House Coordinator or Care and Support Manager.

• Support people to maintain regular contact with their own families and/or other significant individuals according to the person’s wishes.

• Liaise with other agencies and colleagues as required, i.e. emergency services, on-call staff etc.

• Work unsupervised and take appropriate responsibility for the proper running of the shift.

• Ensure the security of the service during night hours.

• Ensure residents are aware of CMKC’s safeguarding adults’ procedures, comments and complaints procedures; document and report any incidents, accidents or complaints accordingly.

About you:

You don’t need any qualifications as a full induction plus professional training will be provided.

The most important thing is a caring attitude, compassion, genuine interest in people.

Why Join Us?:

We are keen on staff development! We offer excellent professional and career development and training opportunities, including professional qualifications.

We promote a diverse, friendly and high-quality working environment.

We offer the opportunity to work amongst a team of dedicated, creative and supportive colleagues.

We provide a fully paid DBS, generous holiday and work pension scheme.

If you are interested in this unique opportunity, then please apply by submitting your CV and a short supporting statement.