Camphill Community Kyle are hiring a Social Care Worker Position. The
Position is **Apply on the website**hour contract and will operate on
a rolling roster. This is a permanent position.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an enthusiastic and flexible Social Care worker in
Camphill Community Kyle. At present we are hiring for full-time
permanent position. We provide **Apply on the website**/7 care for
residents here. Social Care Workers will be expected to be flexible
with working hours ranging from **Apply on the website**hr shifts, 8
hr shifts, overnights, waking nights etc. All rosters are subject to
change throughout the year. Please find below a break down of the
positions available.
JOB PURPOSE
The jobs purpose is to support the intentional community, in
developing and formalizing a person-centered culture, and to achieve a
high quality of personal outcomes in a time of rapidly changing
regulatory requirements, while maintaining Camphill?s ethos and
values.
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
To provide residential, job coaching, and lifestyle supports to adults
with support needs, in an intentional community, by being part of a
team of employees and volunteers creating a positive living
experience, for the residents living in the community.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Model and coordinate support to residents in the Community's
residential household(s) providing a safe homely environment where
each resident has access to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic
personal support.
* Provide support to persons with intellectual disabilities in all
aspects of daily living, including personal care.
* Manage and oversee the day to day running of the residential
household(s) within the Community.
* Work within community budgets.
* Manage administrative and financial systems of the home and ensure
that buildings are well maintained and in good repair. Bring any
issues about the home to the attention of the House Coordinator /
Person in Charge.
* Manage the house team ensuring that there is always adequate cover
for resident support and organise schedules if needed.
* To ensure the provision of a quality service, working in
partnership with the person being
* supported, members of the Community and the person?s wider
circle of support.
* Participate in and occasionally chair regular house meetings.
* Shift manage employees and volunteers within the house team and
assist in the process of induction of new staff and residents.
* Coordinate and ensure the support needs of residents are met in
their daily lives.
* Ensure that the Community provides the best standard of care and
support, complies with legislation, policies, best practice and can
demonstrate the same.
* Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered that takes
individual needs and choice into account
* Maintain comprehensive and up to date residents? records.
* Undertake responsibility for health and safety in the home in line
with policy and procedure and maintain necessary records.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* Third Level Degree in Social Care or related discipline
* Two years work experience in social care
* Excellent working knowledge of regulatory compliance and HIQA
standard and regulations
* Experience of providing support to people with complex needs
* Ability to plan, organise and prioritize workloads
* Flexible, responsible and mature attitude to work ? willing to
work rosters which include sleepovers, waking nights and weekend work
* Ability to problem solve and make decisions
* Highly motivated and reliable and have a flexible approach to
working hours (roster shifts include weekend and overnights hours)
* Excellent communication, people management and problem-solving
skills, empathy and sensitivity to others
* Full Clean Driving Licence
EXPERIENCE:
* Disability: 1 year (Preferred)
* Care Experience: 2 years (Required)
EDUCATION:
* Bachelor's (Required)
LICENCE:
* Full Clean Driving Licence (Required)
DETAILS OF ROLE:
SALARY SCALE: ?**Apply on the website** per hour + Min Wage O/N
LOCATION: Camphill Kyle Co Kilkenny
CLOSING DATE: 2nd April **Apply on the website**
TO APPLY: Please email your CV to **Apply on the website**
Applicants will be contacted by email
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SOCIAL CARE ASSISTANT
JOB PURPOSE
The jobs purpose is to support the intentional community, in
developing and formalising a person-centred culture, and to achieve a
high quality of personal outcomes in a time of rapidly changing
regulatory requirements, while maintaining Camphill?s ethos and
values.
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
To provide residential, job coaching, and lifestyle supports to adults
with support needs, in an intentional community, by being part of a
team of employees and volunteers creating a positive living
experience, for the residents living in the community.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Model and coordinate support to residents in the Community's
residential household(s) providing a safe homely environment where
each resident has access to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic
personal support.
* Provide support to persons with intellectual disabilities in all
aspects of daily living, including personal care.
* Manage and oversee the day to day running of the residential
household(s) within the Community.
* Work within community budgets.
* Manage administrative and financial systems of the home and ensure
that buildings are well maintained and in good repair. Bring any
issues about the home to the attention of the House Coordinator /
Person in Charge.
* Manage the house team ensuring that there is always adequate cover
for resident support?and organise schedules if needed.
* To ensure the provision of a quality service, working in
partnership with the person being supported, members of the Community
and the person?s wider circle of support.
* Participate in and occasionally chair regular house meetings.
* Shift manage employees and volunteers within the house team and
assist in the process of induction of new staff and residents.
* Coordinate and ensure the support needs of residents are met in
their daily lives.
* Ensure that the Community provides the best standard of care and
support, complies with legislation, policies, best practice and can
demonstrate the same.
* Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered that takes
individual needs and choice into account
* Maintain comprehensive and up to date residents? records.
* Undertake responsibility for health and safety in the home in line
with policy and procedure and maintain necessary records.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* Level 5 QQI / Fetac or Equivalent n Social Care or related
discipline
* Two years work experience in social care
* Excellent working knowledge of regulatory compliance and HIQA
standard and regulations
* Experience of providing support to people with complex needs
* Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workloads
* Flexible, responsible and mature attitude to work ? willing to
work rosters which include sleepovers and weekend work
* Ability to problem solve and make decisions
* Highly motivated and reliable and have a flexible approach to
working hours (roster shifts include weekend and overnights hours)
* Excellent communication, people management and problem-solving
skills, empathy and sensitivity to others
* Full Clean Driving Licence
DETAILS OF ROLE:
SALARY SCALE: ?**Apply on the website**.**Apply on the website** per
hour + Min Wage O/N
LOCATION: Camphill Kyle Co Kilkenny
CLOSING DATE: 2nd April **Apply on the website**
To Apply: Please email your CV to **Apply on the website**
Applicants will be contacted by email
-------------------------
SOCIAL CARE ASSISTANT RELIEF
JOB PURPOSE
The jobs purpose is to support the intentional community, in
developing and formalising a person-centred culture, and to achieve a
high quality of personal outcomes in a time of rapidly changing
regulatory requirements, while maintaining Camphill?s ethos and
values.
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
To provide residential, job coaching, and lifestyle supports to adults
with support needs, in an intentional community, by being part of a
team of employees and volunteers creating a positive living
experience, for the residents living in the community.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Model and coordinate support to residents in the Community's
residential household(s) providing a safe homely environment where
each resident has access to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic
personal support.
* Provide support to persons with intellectual disabilities in all
aspects of daily living, including personal care.
* Manage and oversee the day to day running of the residential
household(s) within the Community.
* Work within community budgets.
* Manage administrative and financial systems of the home and ensure
that buildings are well maintained and in good repair. Bring any
issues about the home to the attention of the House Coordinator /
Person in Charge.
* Manage the house team ensuring that there is always adequate cover
for resident support?and organise schedules if needed.
* To ensure the provision of a quality service, working in
partnership with the person being supported, members of the Community
and the person?s wider circle of support.
* Participate in and occasionally chair regular house meetings.
* Shift manage employees and volunteers within the house team and
assist in the process of induction of new staff and residents.
* Coordinate and ensure the support needs of residents are met in
their daily lives.
* Ensure that the Community provides the best standard of care and
support, complies with legislation, policies, best practice and can
demonstrate the same.
* Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered that takes
individual needs and choice into account
* Maintain comprehensive and up to date residents? records.
* Undertake responsibility for health and safety in the home in line
with policy and procedure and maintain necessary records.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* Level 5 QQI / Fetac or Equivalent n Social Care or related
discipline
* Two years work experience in social care
* Excellent working knowledge of regulatory compliance and HIQA
standard and regulations
* Experience of providing support to people with complex needs
* Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workloads
* Flexible, responsible and mature attitude to work ? willing to
work rosters which include sleepovers and weekend work
* Ability to problem solve and make decisions
* Highly motivated and reliable and have a flexible approach to
working hours (roster shifts include weekend and overnights hours)
* Excellent communication, people management and problem-solving
skills, empathy and sensitivity to others
* Full Clean Driving Licence
DETAILS OF ROLE:
SALARY SCALE: ?**Apply on the website**.**Apply on the website** per
hour + Min Wage O/N
LOCATION: Camphill Kyle Co Kilkenny
CONTRACT: MIN 8 hrs per month Relief Fixed Term **Apply on the
website** months
CLOSING DATE: 2nd April **Apply on the website**
TO APPLY: Please email your CV to **Apply on the website**
Applicants will be contacted by email
-------------------------
PROGRAMME FACILITATOR - CAMPHILL COMMUNITY
CAMPHILL COMMUNITY KYLE, ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING APPLICATIONS FROM
HIGHLY MOTIVATED PEOPLE, TO JOIN OUR TEAM FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITION:
PROGRAMME FACILITATOR ? WITH EXPERIENCE IN FARMING
JOB PURPOSE
To support the service (residential community and day service) in
developing and fostering a person centered culture, with an aim to
achieve a high quality of personal outcomes, personal development,
growth and opportunity within the ethos of CCoI and the regulatory and
contractual requirements, of provision.
To manage and lead inclusive workshops, training and social role
opportunities for participants based on or aiming towards organic
gardening and farming through the tasks set out below, by supporting
and working with people with support needs, volunteers employees, and
wider community partners. To Provide enable and support meaningful
work, training and personal development opportunities for people
according to their ability, personal choice and vocational interests.
Contribute, report to and engage with the local management team as in
terms of providing effective management oversight and safeguarding of
people and operational management of the farm and garden activities.
To develop proposals for management that will support new
opportunities and initiatives with potential to add value to the
experience of residents, day attendees, trainees.?Such to include
approaches to best practice around the principles of social inclusion
for persons with a disability, social enterprise, social farming,
employment and social role opportunities for participants /day
attendees/ trainees.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Planning the work of people with support needs, identifying the
best activity and approach for each person, providing guidance,
motivating, developing and directing people as they work.
* To create a good working environment and a group dynamic that
enables each worker to benefit from their time in the workshop.
* Making sure that people with support needs are constructively
engaged, emotionally supported and sufficiently challenged and
progressing as well as supported to work as independently as possible.
* 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.
* Work in conjunction with individual plans and aims for each
individual in the workshop.
* Assist people with support needs in their work wherever necessary
and overseeing/supervising their tasks once they can work
independently.
* Be involved in reviews and support meetings in conjunction with
our social care coordinators and other individuals supporting an
individual.
* Ensure that everyone in the workshop knows where policies can be
found and that all members of staff know who to bring issues of
concerns to, who to report accidents /incidents or complaints to.
* Ensure that the timetabling roster is adhered to and inform the
relevant people of absences.?Supervise punctuality and quality of
work.
* To notify the Management group or their nominated person of any
behavior that causes concern.
* To attend the appropriate meetings as requested
* Work under limited supervision, following standarised practices
and/or methods, providing information, advising others and reporting
to Management.
* To negotiate holidays to minimise disruption to the smooth and
safe running of the workshop
* Maintain the workshop diary on a daily or weekly basis, ensuring
necessary care to animals or other needs in the garden and farm are
arranged throughout seven days of the week and any holidays.
* To maintain Health and Safety regulations within the workshop,
compiling Risk Assessments on the use of equipment where necessary. To
apply best practice in managing farm safety in line with company
policy and national best practice as advised by Health and Safety
Authority and Teagasc.
* To ensure that all equipment in the workshop is safe, clean and in
good working order.
* Formulating farm and garden plans for each year.
* To have ready the materials, resources and expertise required for
the project / activity.
* Seasonal sowing of seeds for garden and tunnels, both vegetables
and flowers.
* To manage the sowing of seeds, preparation of beds for planting,
pruning, harvesting, weeding, watering, feeding animals, collecting
eggs and any other related duties
* Transplanting and planting trees and plants in accordance with the
garden plan.
* Hardening off seedlings ready for planting out.
* To produce vegetables and fruit to make the community as
self-sufficient as possible in this regard.
* To keep the area's you are responsible beautiful, pleasant, clean
and tidy
* Organising and supervising tea breaks for the workshop
* To maintain all documentation required and associated with the
farm and garden including herd number and recording of animal
transfers, births deaths as required by the Department of
Agriculture.?To apply for and manage documentation associated with
single farm payments, and other grants and programmes associated with
farm and garden.
* To maintain all records associated with Bord Bia quality scheme,
Organic farming scheme and any other quality assurance schemes or
statutory compliances as associated with the farm and garden
activities.
* To ensure that all treatments (animal medicines, treatments and
chemicals for farm and garden) are managed in statutory requirements
and best practice in health and safety management.?That appropriate
risk assessments are carried out to ensure that any risks specific to
supporting vulnerable adults / children in the farm and garden
enterprises are appropriately planned for and managed.
* To ensure that visitors are managed in a planned and safe way when
visiting / engaged in the activity of the farm and garden enterprises.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* A qualification at level 6 or above in social care or equivalent
relevant qualification in health, education, or allied field.
* At least 2 years? experience in working with adults with an
intellectual disability/ autism
* Have suitable vegetable production and livestock management
experience and good knowledge, with an ability to produce a range of
seasonal produce for the community and associated day service needs.
DETAILS OF THE ROLE:
SALARY SCALE: ?**Apply on the website** per hour
LOCATION: Kyle Camphill Community, Coolagh, Co Kilkenny, R**Apply on
the website** HN**Apply on the website**
CONTRACT: Permanent - Fulltime **Apply on the website** hours
CLOSING DATE: **Apply on the website**/**Apply on the
website**/**Apply on the website**
TO APPLY: Please email your CV to **Apply on the website**
Candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted by email
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_PLEASE NOTE ALL POSTS ARE SUBJECT TO GARDA VETTING & REFERENCE
CHECKING._
_CAMPHILL IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER_
SOCIAL CARE WORKER
Camphill Community Kyle are hiring a Social Care Worker Position. The
Position is **Apply on the website**hour contract and will operate on
a rolling roster. This is a permanent position.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for an enthusiastic and flexible Social Care worker in
Camphill Community Kyle. At present we are hiring for full-time
permanent position. We provide **Apply on the website**/7 care for
residents here. Social Care Workers will be expected to be flexible
with working hours ranging from **Apply on the website**hr shifts, 8
hr shifts, overnights, waking nights etc. All rosters are subject to
change throughout the year. Please find below a break down of the
positions available.
JOB PURPOSE
The jobs purpose is to support the intentional community, in
developing and formalizing a person-centered culture, and to achieve a
high quality of personal outcomes in a time of rapidly changing
regulatory requirements, while maintaining Camphill?s ethos and
values.
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
To provide residential, job coaching, and lifestyle supports to adults
with support needs, in an intentional community, by being part of a
team of employees and volunteers creating a positive living
experience, for the residents living in the community.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Model and coordinate support to residents in the Community's
residential household(s) providing a safe homely environment where
each resident has access to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic
personal support.
* Provide support to persons with intellectual disabilities in all
aspects of daily living, including personal care.
* Manage and oversee the day to day running of the residential
household(s) within the Community.
* Work within community budgets.
* Manage administrative and financial systems of the home and ensure
that buildings are well maintained and in good repair. Bring any
issues about the home to the attention of the House Coordinator /
Person in Charge.
* Manage the house team ensuring that there is always adequate cover
for resident support and organise schedules if needed.
* To ensure the provision of a quality service, working in
partnership with the person being
* supported, members of the Community and the person?s wider
circle of support.
* Participate in and occasionally chair regular house meetings.
* Shift manage employees and volunteers within the house team and
assist in the process of induction of new staff and residents.
* Coordinate and ensure the support needs of residents are met in
their daily lives.
* Ensure that the Community provides the best standard of care and
support, complies with legislation, policies, best practice and can
demonstrate the same.
* Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered that takes
individual needs and choice into account
* Maintain comprehensive and up to date residents? records.
* Undertake responsibility for health and safety in the home in line
with policy and procedure and maintain necessary records.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* Third Level Degree in Social Care or related discipline
* Two years work experience in social care
* Excellent working knowledge of regulatory compliance and HIQA
standard and regulations
* Experience of providing support to people with complex needs
* Ability to plan, organise and prioritize workloads
* Flexible, responsible and mature attitude to work ? willing to
work rosters which include sleepovers, waking nights and weekend work
* Ability to problem solve and make decisions
* Highly motivated and reliable and have a flexible approach to
working hours (roster shifts include weekend and overnights hours)
* Excellent communication, people management and problem-solving
skills, empathy and sensitivity to others
* Full Clean Driving Licence
EXPERIENCE:
* Disability: 1 year (Preferred)
* Care Experience: 2 years (Required)
EDUCATION:
* Bachelor's (Required)
LICENCE:
* Full Clean Driving Licence (Required)
DETAILS OF ROLE:
SALARY SCALE: ?**Apply on the website** per hour + Min Wage O/N
LOCATION: Camphill Kyle Co Kilkenny
CLOSING DATE: 2nd April **Apply on the website**
TO APPLY: Please email your CV to **Apply on the website**
Applicants will be contacted by email
-------------------------
SOCIAL CARE ASSISTANT
JOB PURPOSE
The jobs purpose is to support the intentional community, in
developing and formalising a person-centred culture, and to achieve a
high quality of personal outcomes in a time of rapidly changing
regulatory requirements, while maintaining Camphill?s ethos and
values.
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
To provide residential, job coaching, and lifestyle supports to adults
with support needs, in an intentional community, by being part of a
team of employees and volunteers creating a positive living
experience, for the residents living in the community.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Model and coordinate support to residents in the Community's
residential household(s) providing a safe homely environment where
each resident has access to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic
personal support.
* Provide support to persons with intellectual disabilities in all
aspects of daily living, including personal care.
* Manage and oversee the day to day running of the residential
household(s) within the Community.
* Work within community budgets.
* Manage administrative and financial systems of the home and ensure
that buildings are well maintained and in good repair. Bring any
issues about the home to the attention of the House Coordinator /
Person in Charge.
* Manage the house team ensuring that there is always adequate cover
for resident support?and organise schedules if needed.
* To ensure the provision of a quality service, working in
partnership with the person being supported, members of the Community
and the person?s wider circle of support.
* Participate in and occasionally chair regular house meetings.
* Shift manage employees and volunteers within the house team and
assist in the process of induction of new staff and residents.
* Coordinate and ensure the support needs of residents are met in
their daily lives.
* Ensure that the Community provides the best standard of care and
support, complies with legislation, policies, best practice and can
demonstrate the same.
* Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered that takes
individual needs and choice into account
* Maintain comprehensive and up to date residents? records.
* Undertake responsibility for health and safety in the home in line
with policy and procedure and maintain necessary records.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* Level 5 QQI / Fetac or Equivalent n Social Care or related
discipline
* Two years work experience in social care
* Excellent working knowledge of regulatory compliance and HIQA
standard and regulations
* Experience of providing support to people with complex needs
* Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workloads
* Flexible, responsible and mature attitude to work ? willing to
work rosters which include sleepovers and weekend work
* Ability to problem solve and make decisions
* Highly motivated and reliable and have a flexible approach to
working hours (roster shifts include weekend and overnights hours)
* Excellent communication, people management and problem-solving
skills, empathy and sensitivity to others
* Full Clean Driving Licence
DETAILS OF ROLE:
SALARY SCALE: ?**Apply on the website**.**Apply on the website** per
hour + Min Wage O/N
LOCATION: Camphill Kyle Co Kilkenny
CLOSING DATE: 2nd April **Apply on the website**
To Apply: Please email your CV to **Apply on the website**
Applicants will be contacted by email
-------------------------
SOCIAL CARE ASSISTANT RELIEF
JOB PURPOSE
The jobs purpose is to support the intentional community, in
developing and formalising a person-centred culture, and to achieve a
high quality of personal outcomes in a time of rapidly changing
regulatory requirements, while maintaining Camphill?s ethos and
values.
GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:
To provide residential, job coaching, and lifestyle supports to adults
with support needs, in an intentional community, by being part of a
team of employees and volunteers creating a positive living
experience, for the residents living in the community.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Model and coordinate support to residents in the Community's
residential household(s) providing a safe homely environment where
each resident has access to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic
personal support.
* Provide support to persons with intellectual disabilities in all
aspects of daily living, including personal care.
* Manage and oversee the day to day running of the residential
household(s) within the Community.
* Work within community budgets.
* Manage administrative and financial systems of the home and ensure
that buildings are well maintained and in good repair. Bring any
issues about the home to the attention of the House Coordinator /
Person in Charge.
* Manage the house team ensuring that there is always adequate cover
for resident support?and organise schedules if needed.
* To ensure the provision of a quality service, working in
partnership with the person being supported, members of the Community
and the person?s wider circle of support.
* Participate in and occasionally chair regular house meetings.
* Shift manage employees and volunteers within the house team and
assist in the process of induction of new staff and residents.
* Coordinate and ensure the support needs of residents are met in
their daily lives.
* Ensure that the Community provides the best standard of care and
support, complies with legislation, policies, best practice and can
demonstrate the same.
* Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered that takes
individual needs and choice into account
* Maintain comprehensive and up to date residents? records.
* Undertake responsibility for health and safety in the home in line
with policy and procedure and maintain necessary records.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* Level 5 QQI / Fetac or Equivalent n Social Care or related
discipline
* Two years work experience in social care
* Excellent working knowledge of regulatory compliance and HIQA
standard and regulations
* Experience of providing support to people with complex needs
* Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workloads
* Flexible, responsible and mature attitude to work ? willing to
work rosters which include sleepovers and weekend work
* Ability to problem solve and make decisions
* Highly motivated and reliable and have a flexible approach to
working hours (roster shifts include weekend and overnights hours)
* Excellent communication, people management and problem-solving
skills, empathy and sensitivity to others
* Full Clean Driving Licence
DETAILS OF ROLE:
SALARY SCALE: ?**Apply on the website**.**Apply on the website** per
hour + Min Wage O/N
LOCATION: Camphill Kyle Co Kilkenny
CONTRACT: MIN 8 hrs per month Relief Fixed Term **Apply on the
website** months
CLOSING DATE: 2nd April **Apply on the website**
TO APPLY: Please email your CV to **Apply on the website**
Applicants will be contacted by email
-------------------------
PROGRAMME FACILITATOR - CAMPHILL COMMUNITY
CAMPHILL COMMUNITY KYLE, ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING APPLICATIONS FROM
HIGHLY MOTIVATED PEOPLE, TO JOIN OUR TEAM FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITION:
PROGRAMME FACILITATOR ? WITH EXPERIENCE IN FARMING
JOB PURPOSE
To support the service (residential community and day service) in
developing and fostering a person centered culture, with an aim to
achieve a high quality of personal outcomes, personal development,
growth and opportunity within the ethos of CCoI and the regulatory and
contractual requirements, of provision.
To manage and lead inclusive workshops, training and social role
opportunities for participants based on or aiming towards organic
gardening and farming through the tasks set out below, by supporting
and working with people with support needs, volunteers employees, and
wider community partners. To Provide enable and support meaningful
work, training and personal development opportunities for people
according to their ability, personal choice and vocational interests.
Contribute, report to and engage with the local management team as in
terms of providing effective management oversight and safeguarding of
people and operational management of the farm and garden activities.
To develop proposals for management that will support new
opportunities and initiatives with potential to add value to the
experience of residents, day attendees, trainees.?Such to include
approaches to best practice around the principles of social inclusion
for persons with a disability, social enterprise, social farming,
employment and social role opportunities for participants /day
attendees/ trainees.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Planning the work of people with support needs, identifying the
best activity and approach for each person, providing guidance,
motivating, developing and directing people as they work.
* To create a good working environment and a group dynamic that
enables each worker to benefit from their time in the workshop.
* Making sure that people with support needs are constructively
engaged, emotionally supported and sufficiently challenged and
progressing as well as supported to work as independently as possible.
* 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.
* Work in conjunction with individual plans and aims for each
individual in the workshop.
* Assist people with support needs in their work wherever necessary
and overseeing/supervising their tasks once they can work
independently.
* Be involved in reviews and support meetings in conjunction with
our social care coordinators and other individuals supporting an
individual.
* Ensure that everyone in the workshop knows where policies can be
found and that all members of staff know who to bring issues of
concerns to, who to report accidents /incidents or complaints to.
* Ensure that the timetabling roster is adhered to and inform the
relevant people of absences.?Supervise punctuality and quality of
work.
* To notify the Management group or their nominated person of any
behavior that causes concern.
* To attend the appropriate meetings as requested
* Work under limited supervision, following standarised practices
and/or methods, providing information, advising others and reporting
to Management.
* To negotiate holidays to minimise disruption to the smooth and
safe running of the workshop
* Maintain the workshop diary on a daily or weekly basis, ensuring
necessary care to animals or other needs in the garden and farm are
arranged throughout seven days of the week and any holidays.
* To maintain Health and Safety regulations within the workshop,
compiling Risk Assessments on the use of equipment where necessary. To
apply best practice in managing farm safety in line with company
policy and national best practice as advised by Health and Safety
Authority and Teagasc.
* To ensure that all equipment in the workshop is safe, clean and in
good working order.
* Formulating farm and garden plans for each year.
* To have ready the materials, resources and expertise required for
the project / activity.
* Seasonal sowing of seeds for garden and tunnels, both vegetables
and flowers.
* To manage the sowing of seeds, preparation of beds for planting,
pruning, harvesting, weeding, watering, feeding animals, collecting
eggs and any other related duties
* Transplanting and planting trees and plants in accordance with the
garden plan.
* Hardening off seedlings ready for planting out.
* To produce vegetables and fruit to make the community as
self-sufficient as possible in this regard.
* To keep the area's you are responsible beautiful, pleasant, clean
and tidy
* Organising and supervising tea breaks for the workshop
* To maintain all documentation required and associated with the
farm and garden including herd number and recording of animal
transfers, births deaths as required by the Department of
Agriculture.?To apply for and manage documentation associated with
single farm payments, and other grants and programmes associated with
farm and garden.
* To maintain all records associated with Bord Bia quality scheme,
Organic farming scheme and any other quality assurance schemes or
statutory compliances as associated with the farm and garden
activities.
* To ensure that all treatments (animal medicines, treatments and
chemicals for farm and garden) are managed in statutory requirements
and best practice in health and safety management.?That appropriate
risk assessments are carried out to ensure that any risks specific to
supporting vulnerable adults / children in the farm and garden
enterprises are appropriately planned for and managed.
* To ensure that visitors are managed in a planned and safe way when
visiting / engaged in the activity of the farm and garden enterprises.
QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* A qualification at level 6 or above in social care or equivalent
relevant qualification in health, education, or allied field.
* At least 2 years? experience in working with adults with an
intellectual disability/ autism
* Have suitable vegetable production and livestock management
experience and good knowledge, with an ability to produce a range of
seasonal produce for the community and associated day service needs.
DETAILS OF THE ROLE:
SALARY SCALE: ?**Apply on the website** per hour
LOCATION: Kyle Camphill Community, Coolagh, Co Kilkenny, R**Apply on
the website** HN**Apply on the website**
CONTRACT: Permanent - Fulltime **Apply on the website** hours
CLOSING DATE: **Apply on the website**/**Apply on the
website**/**Apply on the website**
TO APPLY: Please email your CV to **Apply on the website**
Candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted by email
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_PLEASE NOTE ALL POSTS ARE SUBJECT TO GARDA VETTING & REFERENCE
CHECKING._
_CAMPHILL IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER_
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Others
