SOCIAL CARE WORKER
Day Service
Part Time
Camphill Communities of Ireland are seeking to hire a Social Care
Worker.?This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking
for a new challenge.
PURPOSE OF POST
The position requires a high degree of understanding and commitment to
the residents and to Camphill Communities of Ireland.?The prime
consideration at all times must be for the welfare and wellbeing of
the residents. This position requires a high degree of
professionalism.?Confidentiality with regard to residents and staff
is most important.
The Social Care Worker must have the ability to work with people with
an intellectual disability and must believe that the person has the
right to live and participate in the community equally with other
people.?The Social Care Worker, in co-operation with the House
Coordinator and the Person In Charge will be responsible for the
overall growth and direction of the residents, working within the
ethos of CCoI.
The person appointed must be highly responsible and reliable, be
competent in household management and have the ability to create and
maintain a homely and supportive environment.?The position requires a
maturity enabling the person to resolve conflict and can understand
and empower people with sometimes quite divergent points of view.
The person appointed should be flexible in their approach to service
provision and should have the ability to lead and work as a member of
a team. They will be required to take an active part in ensuring that
the day-to-day operations of the Service reflect the ethos and vision
of CCoI and that all staff are meeting the needs of the individuals
supported by the Service. They will be required, whilst setting a
personal example by attitude, conduct, practice and leadership style
to carry out the duties of the post outlined hereafter.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
THE SOCIAL CARE WORKER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING:
ADVOCACY & RIGHTS
* Respect each person who uses the services as an equal citizen.
* Uphold and respect the human, legal and constitutional rights of
each person who uses the service, recognising their individuality and
equality, and empowering them to grow, thereby achieving the highest
possible level of personal autonomy.
* Facilitate, encourage and develop the choice and decision-making
skills of people who use the services.
* Facilitate, encourage and develop the self-advocacy skills of and
opportunities for involvement in advocacy for people who use services.
* Enable each individual supported by the services to pursue and
maintain their individual hobbies and interests.
* Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of
each individual supported by the services so as to achieve the
greatest degree of autonomy possible.
* Facilitate each individual supported by the services to actively
participate and integrate into the community, through the use of
generic community facilities.
PERSON CENTRED SUPPORT FOR LIVING
* Ensure a person centred approach to service delivery
* In the context of the individual person centred plans support
people who use the service with aspects of individual and group
service responses including:
* Occupation and leisure activities
* Communication
* Behaviour support plans
* Independent living skills
* Social Integration and the use of community facilities
* Personal Care
* Personal Development
* Act as a Key Worker for specific individuals.
* In consultation with the individual take the lead in developing
and implementing person centred plans for those individuals for whom
you act as key worker and ensure that the needs identified are
appropriately addressed and participate in residents reviews as
required.
* Ensure all medical appointments are coordinated and supported.
* ?Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered and takes
individual choice into account.
* Develop and implement appropriate training, leisure, social, and
personal activities for individuals within the service area.
* Facilitate individuals to actively participate and integrate into
the community, through the use of generic community facilities.
* Ensure that all behaviour support plans that are put in place by
the Multidisciplinary Team are carried out and adhered to.
* Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of
each person so as to achieve the highest possible degree of personal
autonomy.
* Ensure that people who use the service have an awareness of
required personal hygiene and personal appearance standards and
support them in attaining such standards.?This may include the
participation in and support of individualised personal hygiene
programmes including personal care.
* Support the individual by ensuring appropriate:
* Physical support ? moving and handling, fire safety, cleaning,
laundry, infection control, mobility and communication needs.
* Personal care ? dressing, bathing, toileting, assistance with
eating, sleeping support, skin care, first aid, and health promotion.
* Facilitate and encourage participation of individuals in
recreational and leisure activities.
* Share duties and support the residents by liaising with the
relevant workshops to make sure house to work transitions are managed
according to the individual?s needs.
* Contribute to and participate in social and recreational
activities of people who use services and liaise as appropriate with
Day Services Coordinator.
* Achieve competency in driving the assigned transport and
participate in transport duties as required.
* Encourage and promote each person?s full participation in their
home while at the same time ensuring that their home and its environs
are maintained to acceptable standards where each resident has access
to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic personal support.
* Encourage and promote the involvement of individuals in the
prudent management of their personal monies in line with the Residents
Finance Policy.
* Encourage and promote the participation of individuals in buying,
preparing, cooking of meals and packed lunches as required.
* Ensure that the religious and pastoral needs of each individual
are adequately supported.
* Administer prescribed medications and maintain all required
records in keeping with organisational policy.
* Assist the House Coordinator and Person in Charge in ensuring, the
day to day running of the household and that practices within the
house are person centred and are in line with value-based practices.
* Ensure that buildings are well maintained and in good repair and
bring any issued about the home to the House Coordinator or Person in
Charge.
* Ensure that the personal clothing of individuals is looked after
and cared for and that the household and bed linen is changed and
laundered regularly.
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
* Ensure that all legislative, CCoI polices and regulatory
requirements (including Health & Safety Act and HIQA regulations and
standards) are adhered to and complied with by continuous monitoring,
inspection and audit of the designated centre.
* Ensure that all records in relation to individuals who use
services are up to date, correctly filed and managed as per CCoI
records management system.
* Ensure that all reports, timesheets and financial statements are
accurate, completed and returned on time.
* Maintain complete and accurate records for each person to include
the personal needs assessments, risk assessments, incidents and
notifiable events, file notes, communication plans, behavioural
management support, health action plans, medication management and
financial records.
* Ensure immediate and accurate reporting of all matters of concern
to the Person in Charge (PIC).
* Be responsible for the physical and emotional wellbeing of
individuals who use the services.
* Coordinate the house team by ensuring that there is always
adequate cover for resident?s support and organise schedules as
required.
* Coordinate all staff and volunteers within the house team and
assist in the process of induction and training of same.
* Contribute actively to the team while providing consistent and
quality support for vulnerable adults.
* Be familiar with and ensure that policies, procedures and codes of
practice of the CCoI are adhered to.
* Utilise efficiently the transport services available to the
service area and advise the appropriate staff on transport needs.
* Where required monitor and manage the attendance of students
assigned to the house and report any concerns as necessary to the
House Coordinator/Person in Charge
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Applicants must:
* Hold a minimum of a Level 7 on the QQI Framework ? BA in Social
Care Studies or equivalent qualification in Heath or Social Care.
* Have 2 years experience of working with vulnerable adults or
adults with intellectual disabilities.
* An understanding of current policy and developments at national
and sectoral level in relation to Social Care within disability
services.
* An ability to follow, evaluate and contribute to the further
development of plans and methods to meet the ongoing needs of
individuals supported.
* Effective interpersonal and communication (verbal and written)
skills.
* Proficient IT skills relevant to the role, to include Microsoft
Office Excel, Word, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.
* A full driver?s licence and availability of own car is an
essential requirement.
DETAILS OF THE ROLE:
Salary Scale: ?**APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** PER HOUR
Location: CAMPHILL COMMUNITY DUNSHANE, BRANNOCKSTOWN, NAAS, CO.
KILDARE, W**APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** XV5T
Contract: PART TIME **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** HOURS, PERMANENT, SUBJECT
TO A 9-MONTH PROBATION
Closing date: 5PM ON TUESDAY **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**ST?OF AUGUST
**APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**
PLEASE SEND IN CURRICULUM VITAE AND COVER LETTER TO **APPLY ON THE
WEBSITE**
CANDIDATES SHORTLISTED FOR INTERVIEW WILL BE CONTACTED BY TUESDAY 7TH
OF SEPTEMBER **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** FOR INTERVIEW.
PLEASE NOTE ALL POSTS ARE SUBJECT TO GARDA VETTING & REFERENCE
CHECKING.
CAMPHILL IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER
CAMPHILL COMMUNITIES OF IRELAND (CCOI) ARE RECRUITING FOR:
SOCIAL CARE WORKER
Day Service
Part Time
Camphill Communities of Ireland are seeking to hire a Social Care
Worker.?This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking
for a new challenge.
PURPOSE OF POST
The position requires a high degree of understanding and commitment to
the residents and to Camphill Communities of Ireland.?The prime
consideration at all times must be for the welfare and wellbeing of
the residents. This position requires a high degree of
professionalism.?Confidentiality with regard to residents and staff
is most important.
The Social Care Worker must have the ability to work with people with
an intellectual disability and must believe that the person has the
right to live and participate in the community equally with other
people.?The Social Care Worker, in co-operation with the House
Coordinator and the Person In Charge will be responsible for the
overall growth and direction of the residents, working within the
ethos of CCoI.
The person appointed must be highly responsible and reliable, be
competent in household management and have the ability to create and
maintain a homely and supportive environment.?The position requires a
maturity enabling the person to resolve conflict and can understand
and empower people with sometimes quite divergent points of view.
The person appointed should be flexible in their approach to service
provision and should have the ability to lead and work as a member of
a team. They will be required to take an active part in ensuring that
the day-to-day operations of the Service reflect the ethos and vision
of CCoI and that all staff are meeting the needs of the individuals
supported by the Service. They will be required, whilst setting a
personal example by attitude, conduct, practice and leadership style
to carry out the duties of the post outlined hereafter.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
THE SOCIAL CARE WORKER SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING:
ADVOCACY & RIGHTS
* Respect each person who uses the services as an equal citizen.
* Uphold and respect the human, legal and constitutional rights of
each person who uses the service, recognising their individuality and
equality, and empowering them to grow, thereby achieving the highest
possible level of personal autonomy.
* Facilitate, encourage and develop the choice and decision-making
skills of people who use the services.
* Facilitate, encourage and develop the self-advocacy skills of and
opportunities for involvement in advocacy for people who use services.
* Enable each individual supported by the services to pursue and
maintain their individual hobbies and interests.
* Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of
each individual supported by the services so as to achieve the
greatest degree of autonomy possible.
* Facilitate each individual supported by the services to actively
participate and integrate into the community, through the use of
generic community facilities.
PERSON CENTRED SUPPORT FOR LIVING
* Ensure a person centred approach to service delivery
* In the context of the individual person centred plans support
people who use the service with aspects of individual and group
service responses including:
* Occupation and leisure activities
* Communication
* Behaviour support plans
* Independent living skills
* Social Integration and the use of community facilities
* Personal Care
* Personal Development
* Act as a Key Worker for specific individuals.
* In consultation with the individual take the lead in developing
and implementing person centred plans for those individuals for whom
you act as key worker and ensure that the needs identified are
appropriately addressed and participate in residents reviews as
required.
* Ensure all medical appointments are coordinated and supported.
* ?Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered and takes
individual choice into account.
* Develop and implement appropriate training, leisure, social, and
personal activities for individuals within the service area.
* Facilitate individuals to actively participate and integrate into
the community, through the use of generic community facilities.
* Ensure that all behaviour support plans that are put in place by
the Multidisciplinary Team are carried out and adhered to.
* Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of
each person so as to achieve the highest possible degree of personal
autonomy.
* Ensure that people who use the service have an awareness of
required personal hygiene and personal appearance standards and
support them in attaining such standards.?This may include the
participation in and support of individualised personal hygiene
programmes including personal care.
* Support the individual by ensuring appropriate:
* Physical support ? moving and handling, fire safety, cleaning,
laundry, infection control, mobility and communication needs.
* Personal care ? dressing, bathing, toileting, assistance with
eating, sleeping support, skin care, first aid, and health promotion.
* Facilitate and encourage participation of individuals in
recreational and leisure activities.
* Share duties and support the residents by liaising with the
relevant workshops to make sure house to work transitions are managed
according to the individual?s needs.
* Contribute to and participate in social and recreational
activities of people who use services and liaise as appropriate with
Day Services Coordinator.
* Achieve competency in driving the assigned transport and
participate in transport duties as required.
* Encourage and promote each person?s full participation in their
home while at the same time ensuring that their home and its environs
are maintained to acceptable standards where each resident has access
to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic personal support.
* Encourage and promote the involvement of individuals in the
prudent management of their personal monies in line with the Residents
Finance Policy.
* Encourage and promote the participation of individuals in buying,
preparing, cooking of meals and packed lunches as required.
* Ensure that the religious and pastoral needs of each individual
are adequately supported.
* Administer prescribed medications and maintain all required
records in keeping with organisational policy.
* Assist the House Coordinator and Person in Charge in ensuring, the
day to day running of the household and that practices within the
house are person centred and are in line with value-based practices.
* Ensure that buildings are well maintained and in good repair and
bring any issued about the home to the House Coordinator or Person in
Charge.
* Ensure that the personal clothing of individuals is looked after
and cared for and that the household and bed linen is changed and
laundered regularly.
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
* Ensure that all legislative, CCoI polices and regulatory
requirements (including Health & Safety Act and HIQA regulations and
standards) are adhered to and complied with by continuous monitoring,
inspection and audit of the designated centre.
* Ensure that all records in relation to individuals who use
services are up to date, correctly filed and managed as per CCoI
records management system.
* Ensure that all reports, timesheets and financial statements are
accurate, completed and returned on time.
* Maintain complete and accurate records for each person to include
the personal needs assessments, risk assessments, incidents and
notifiable events, file notes, communication plans, behavioural
management support, health action plans, medication management and
financial records.
* Ensure immediate and accurate reporting of all matters of concern
to the Person in Charge (PIC).
* Be responsible for the physical and emotional wellbeing of
individuals who use the services.
* Coordinate the house team by ensuring that there is always
adequate cover for resident?s support and organise schedules as
required.
* Coordinate all staff and volunteers within the house team and
assist in the process of induction and training of same.
* Contribute actively to the team while providing consistent and
quality support for vulnerable adults.
* Be familiar with and ensure that policies, procedures and codes of
practice of the CCoI are adhered to.
* Utilise efficiently the transport services available to the
service area and advise the appropriate staff on transport needs.
* Where required monitor and manage the attendance of students
assigned to the house and report any concerns as necessary to the
House Coordinator/Person in Charge
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Applicants must:
* Hold a minimum of a Level 7 on the QQI Framework ? BA in Social
Care Studies or equivalent qualification in Heath or Social Care.
* Have 2 years experience of working with vulnerable adults or
adults with intellectual disabilities.
* An understanding of current policy and developments at national
and sectoral level in relation to Social Care within disability
services.
* An ability to follow, evaluate and contribute to the further
development of plans and methods to meet the ongoing needs of
individuals supported.
* Effective interpersonal and communication (verbal and written)
skills.
* Proficient IT skills relevant to the role, to include Microsoft
Office Excel, Word, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.
* A full driver?s licence and availability of own car is an
essential requirement.
DETAILS OF THE ROLE:
Salary Scale: ?**APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** PER HOUR
Location: CAMPHILL COMMUNITY DUNSHANE, BRANNOCKSTOWN, NAAS, CO.
KILDARE, W**APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** XV5T
Contract: PART TIME **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** HOURS, PERMANENT, SUBJECT
TO A 9-MONTH PROBATION
Closing date: 5PM ON TUESDAY **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**ST?OF AUGUST
**APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**
PLEASE SEND IN CURRICULUM VITAE AND COVER LETTER TO **APPLY ON THE
WEBSITE**
CANDIDATES SHORTLISTED FOR INTERVIEW WILL BE CONTACTED BY TUESDAY 7TH
OF SEPTEMBER **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** FOR INTERVIEW.
PLEASE NOTE ALL POSTS ARE SUBJECT TO GARDA VETTING & REFERENCE
CHECKING.
CAMPHILL IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER
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