Support Worker
| Posting date: | 12 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | Great Harwood, Blackburn |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Highfield Scheme Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Provide appropriate personal care to service users, which may involve offering assistance in washing, bathing, dressing, and all other aspects of personal hygiene.
Prompting a safe experiential environment, enabling service users to achieve maximum personal development.
Provide the highest possible standard of care and quality of life to the service users using the service.
Implement the Core principles of service delivery, and become familiar with such principles and adopting and demonstrating them throughout your working practices
help prepare meals with the service user, and if appropriate sit with the service user offering appropriate support.
To respect and actively promote service users’ social integration.
Provide escort support to service users attending routine medical or dental appointments, etc.
administer prescribed medication in accordance with the procedure in operation as agreed in individual care plans (and after receiving appropriate training).
Assist in social competence inside the service users’ home and within the community including providing escort for shopping and recreational activities. Develop and maintain a close collaboration between the service users’ family home, social clubs or voluntary place, or employment, whichever is appropriate.
Maintain and respect the confidentiality of any information, relating to either the service users, fellow colleagues, or the company in general, which may be acquired during the carrying out of one’s duties whether this information is verbal, written or visual.
Provide a written summary of each service users daily activities in accordance with the procedure in operation within the service and agreed in individual care plans.
Comply with all aspects of the Health and Safety Policy
Maintain, if required, accurate and detailed financial records pertaining to service users spending as agreed within individual care plans.
Complete all training as and when required.
To comply with agreed planned interventions such as Positive Behaviour Support Plans
To participate and actively contribute to the completion of the service users Care Plans/documentation, if required.
To regularly attend team meetings, including, if necessary, meetings which are held outside an individuals’ normal hours of duty.
3. DOMESTIC
3.1 To carry out a number of domestic responsibilities include household cleaning, service user laundry, home/service user shopping and cooking as directed and agreed within individual service user care plans.
3.2 To comply if required with the service users’ homes cleaning schedule as within the individual care plan. Such duties may be required to be undertaken with or without the service users’ assistance.
3.3 To ensure that the service users’ clothing is laundered in accordance with the washing and ironing instruction pertaining to the individual garment. Where necessary and appropriate make suitable repair, and finally ensure that such items of clothing are returned to the service users’ wardrobe in such a manner as to be ready to be worn again.
3.4 To notify the appropriate individual whenever clothing requires replacing.
Prompting a safe experiential environment, enabling service users to achieve maximum personal development.
Provide the highest possible standard of care and quality of life to the service users using the service.
Implement the Core principles of service delivery, and become familiar with such principles and adopting and demonstrating them throughout your working practices
help prepare meals with the service user, and if appropriate sit with the service user offering appropriate support.
To respect and actively promote service users’ social integration.
Provide escort support to service users attending routine medical or dental appointments, etc.
administer prescribed medication in accordance with the procedure in operation as agreed in individual care plans (and after receiving appropriate training).
Assist in social competence inside the service users’ home and within the community including providing escort for shopping and recreational activities. Develop and maintain a close collaboration between the service users’ family home, social clubs or voluntary place, or employment, whichever is appropriate.
Maintain and respect the confidentiality of any information, relating to either the service users, fellow colleagues, or the company in general, which may be acquired during the carrying out of one’s duties whether this information is verbal, written or visual.
Provide a written summary of each service users daily activities in accordance with the procedure in operation within the service and agreed in individual care plans.
Comply with all aspects of the Health and Safety Policy
Maintain, if required, accurate and detailed financial records pertaining to service users spending as agreed within individual care plans.
Complete all training as and when required.
To comply with agreed planned interventions such as Positive Behaviour Support Plans
To participate and actively contribute to the completion of the service users Care Plans/documentation, if required.
To regularly attend team meetings, including, if necessary, meetings which are held outside an individuals’ normal hours of duty.
3. DOMESTIC
3.1 To carry out a number of domestic responsibilities include household cleaning, service user laundry, home/service user shopping and cooking as directed and agreed within individual service user care plans.
3.2 To comply if required with the service users’ homes cleaning schedule as within the individual care plan. Such duties may be required to be undertaken with or without the service users’ assistance.
3.3 To ensure that the service users’ clothing is laundered in accordance with the washing and ironing instruction pertaining to the individual garment. Where necessary and appropriate make suitable repair, and finally ensure that such items of clothing are returned to the service users’ wardrobe in such a manner as to be ready to be worn again.
3.4 To notify the appropriate individual whenever clothing requires replacing.
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