Senior Care and Support Worker Complex Care - Castle Crags Care Home - EDN28046
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Mehefin 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £30,751.00 i £36,312.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 15 Gorffennaf 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Edinburgh, EH16 4UY |
| Cwmni: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | EDN28046 |
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Job Description
Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership
Senior Care and Support Worker Complex Care
Castle Crags Care Home
Salary: £30,751 - £36,312
Hours: 36 per week
We are looking for experienced staff to join our Supervisory team of Senior Care and Support Workers. Our Senior Care and Support workers engage in direct care delivery whilst also supporting frontline colleagues to develop their knowledge and skills. (Full Job description attached)
Leave entitlement- 27 days annual leave plus 6 public holidays increasing to 35 days plus 6 public holidays after 10 years’ service The successful candidates will also be required to participate in the Oncall out of hours Rota as part of a planned rota system.
The City of Edinburgh Councils Complex Care service provides 24/7 services/support to individuals with Learning Disabilities and Complex support or care needs within our Housing Support & Care at Home, Day service, Breakthrough Support Services and Dynamic support co-ordination. These are provided from community based individual tenancies or core & cluster models of care within our Housing support services and from our community-based hubs based across the city. Complex care
We support adults with a diagnosis of Learning disability from the age of 16 with no reaching upper age limit who may have varying support needs. This includes people with complex care needs, autism spectrum disorder, mental health needs, behaviour that may challenge, forensic/ offending behaviour, or a combination of these. We as services are committed to using a Positive Behavioural Support model, which we are currently developing /implementing using the PBS framework with our partners in Health.
The role of the Senior Care and Support Worker is varied. You will lead and manage a team of Care and Support Workers to promote individualised and person-centred support to Service Users within their own homes or within building-based services enabling and supporting individuals to meet their physical, social, emotional and well-being needs. This will include responsibility for ensuring administrative task to include developing care plans/risk management plans and PBS plans and ensuring these are reviewed, monitored and updated as require. Professional representation will be required at MDT/CPA & review meetings. Providing strong professional leadership in managing a small team/staff in their support, performance, learning, development and training as frontline workers.
The Complex Care services works within the Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership working closely with our own social work partners and our Health partners from the Specialist Positive Behaviour Support and Community Learning Disability Nursing Team. You will be expected to develop and maintain a strong focus on partnership working with all professionals and key stakeholders and attend multi-disciplinary team meetings as part of your role.
We are committed to and invest in continuous professional development for our colleagues and all appropriate training for the post will be provided. We will support staff to attain the required qualifications to meet registration with SSSC for the role they are employed for.
It is a condition of this post that you are Registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). If you are not registered with the SSSC when taking up this post, you have six months from the date of your employment to do so.
Senior Care & Support Workers must have an HNC Care & SVQ3 or working towards it or a professional qualification to meet the requirements of SSSC registration.
Requirements
- What is complex care?
The City of Edinburgh Council considers adults with a learning disability to be ‘complex’ if:
they present chronic or episodic challenging behaviours, are workforce intensive, require intervention from two or more agencies, could pose a risk to themselves and/or others, and have specific needs for which there is no sustainable “ordinary” community support system available.
- What is Autism?
Autism is a lifelong developmental condition which can affect people with or without Learning Disabilities. It can affect individuals in four key areas;
- Social Interaction
- Social Communication
- Social Imagination
- Sensory processing/integration
Responsibilities
- What is Challenging Behaviour?
This may also be described as “Behaviours of concern” or “Behaviour which challenges” or “distressed behaviours”.
These types of behaviours are exhibited by individuals as a means of communicating an unmet need.
The term “challenging behaviour” has been used to refer to the “difficult” or “problem” behaviours which may be shown by children or adults with a learning disability. Such behaviours include;
- aggression (e.g., hitting, kicking, biting),
- destruction (e.g., ripping clothes, breaking windows, throwing objects),
- self-injury (e.g., head banging, self-biting, skin picking),
- other “undesired” behaviours (e.g. running away, eating inedible objects, swearing etc).
Characteristically, challenging behaviour puts the safety of the person or others at increased risk or has a significant impact on the person’s or other people’s quality of life.
- What is Positive Behaviour Support?
The overall aim of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is to improve the quality of a person’s life and that of the people around them.
Key principles of PBS
Behaviour that challenges always happens for a reason and may be the person’s only way of communicating an unmet need. PBS helps us understand the reason for the behaviour so we can better meet people’s needs, enhance their quality of life and reduce the likelihood that the behaviour will happen.
- What training and development is provided?
All staff are provided with a blended learning mode of learning with a mix of face to face and e-learning covering the essential induction program with a full e-learning portfolio to promote your own personal development and skills.
In addition to this we provide inhouse/ further education training to staff on Positive Behaviour Support/ Forensics upport, with both in house training and external accredited training.
- What staff support is provided?
All of the services have regular team meetings, and regular supervision. During induction staff should receive an increased level of supervision.
We have clear stress management, incident management, and debriefing processes, to support staff through difficult and challenging experiences. We also have in-house workplace wellbeing activities run by and for our own staff. This is in addition to City of Edinburgh Councils Workforce wellbeing initiatives and Employee Assistance Programme.
Whilst work within these services can sometimes be demanding, there is no better feeling than when things go well, and you know that your contribution has made a significant improvement the life and wellbeing of a service user and those around them!
The Individual
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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