At Bath & North East Somerset Council we have one overriding purpose - to improve people's lives.

This post attracts a welcome payment of 5% of the starting salary for the grade to enable individuals to join our permanent workforce. This is payable upon successful completion of your probationary period and is subject to eligibility criteria.

About the Team

The Extra care team based at Hawthorn Court in Keynsham and St Johns Court in Bath also provide a step down service in partnership with Curo Housing Association.

The team support people and operate to provide rehabilitation and support to adults - often frail and elderly, within a home environment to promote optimum levels of independence; to prevent hospital admission, to facilitate hospital discharge, maximise independent living in the community and assess requirements of appropriate on going care packages. This involves working closely with our District Nursing, Social Care and housing support Colleagues to provide person centred care.

We are a friendly team consisting of a Registered Manager, Care Manager, Shift leaders and Support workers. We work closely with our District Nursing, Social Care and housing Colleagues to deliver joined up care.

About the Role

The role of a Stepdown Support Worker is to support our service users to enable them to live as independently as possible within their own home. We support these individuals by providing personal care, basic health care and therapy such as mobility practice, supervising exercises and practice of techniques to help the individual to maximise independence as far as they are able.

About You

The successful candidates will be well supported and will work under the direction of a shift leader and or care manager, the Stepdown support worker and shift leader will help Service Users' work towards their outcome-focused re-ablement goals as set out in their support/treatment plan.

We are looking for one Step down support workers, who will be based at St Johns Court in Bath.

The working arrangements will include weekends and bank holidays on a rostered basis with split shift between the hours of 7am and 10pm.

This is how our staff feel about working within our service: "Seeing people progress is so rewarding"; "I feel that we make a real difference to people's lives - keeping them at home with their independence".

Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
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