Support Worker - MOR10692
| Posting date: | 27 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,692.55 to £27,200.55 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | Elgin, IV30 6HN |
| Company: | Moray Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MOR10692 |
Summary
Job Description
To work with and provide care and support to service users with extreme learning disabilities who exhibit a variety of challenging behaviours posing a range of physical and emotional challenges.
Responsibilities
- To provide direct support to service users who exhibit extreme challenging behaviour to manage the behaviour and to enable them to participate in a wide range of therapeutic and social activities.
- To uphold social work values and to ensure good working practice including understanding and awareness of health and safety
- To promote the independence and develop the skills of service users and assist with all tasks necessary to ensure positive life experiences
- To work positively with other agencies, parents, carers, and other services to ensure a quality provision of care for service users
- Develop and contribute to the maintenance of service user records and support plans and act as a key worker when required.
- To ensure that the living environment of the service users is clean and appropriate to meet each individuals needs
- To participate in regular and ongoing training relevant to the needs of the service users.
The Individual
- Experience that would give the post holder insight into issues in relation to working with people with a disability who exhibit challenging behaviour.
- Willingness to undertake SVQ level 2
- Willingness to undertake further training as required
- Willing to work towards SSSC
- Good Practical Skills
- Good Observational Skills
- Flexibility, Empathy and Approachability
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to remain calm in a crisis
- Ability to reflect on your own practice
- To understand your own feelings about being challenged
- Knowledge of Social Care Values
- Ability to form positive relationships with service users, colleagues, parents and other professionals
- Sensitivity and understanding of discrimination and health and well being issues
- Flexible approach to work patterns and bases and ability to work within a shift based rota system
- Ability to respond appropriately in difficult or challenging situations
- Ability to work effectively as part of the support team and in multi-disciplinary settings
- Ability to use own initiative and to be self motivated
- The ability to engage service users in activities and participation within their home and in the local community
- Ability to communicate in an open an approachable manner
- Ability to carry out duties that involve personal care of service users
- Ability to carry out moving and handling duties in line with health and safety regulation and risk assessment
- Ability to support service users with physical activities such as swimming, hydro therapy etc
Closing Date: 11th July 2025
Starting Salary: £25,692.55
£13.63 per hour
full-time and part-time contracts available.
For further information contact: Kate McClue 01343 842390
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