Apply now to be a ‘Personalisation Support Worker’ at Focus Birmingham, and make a real difference to the lives of the people we support and their families.
Your role will be to deliver personalised care, ensuring our support planning and activity programme is carried out to a high standard and all the needs of those we support are met.
No two days are the same at our wonderful Day Service therefore, we are looking for vibrant people who can meet the physical and emotional needs of all the people we support.
The role:
You will lead our person-centered activity program by:
- Planning and Leading Activities: Design and conduct activities tailored to participants across the service, promoting active support.
- Collaborating with Senior Support Workers: Facilitate meaningful activities that enhance community access, skill-building, and independence.
- Supporting Staff and Volunteers: Guide care support workers, agency staff, and volunteers to ensure active involvement for all.
- Modifying activities for individual Needs: Tailor activities to accommodate diverse abilities, using tools like assistive technology, environmental adjustments, or alternative communication methods (Makaton / PECs).
- Safeguarding Participants: Identify and report concerns, working with stakeholders and agencies to ensure safety and well-being.
You will ensure that those we support have an accurate and detailed person centered support plan that is delivered each day by:
- Ensuring upport plans are accurate and detailed by completing daily checks.
- Auditing information to ensure it is logged accurately, and discrepancies are reported immediately.
- Ensuring staff are aware of what is required when logging care in accordance with software and procedures in place.
- Supporting and mentoring Care Support Workers to deliver activities, empowering them to contribute to personalised care in daily routines.
- Working alongside the Hub Leader, Senior Support Workers, and Care Support Workers to ensure a collaborative approach to care.
You will provide person-centered care and support that enables each individual to embrace life and unlock their potential by:
- Providing opportunities for the people we support to make choices and decisions.
- Using total communication techniques tailored to each individual. Supporting people to speak up for themselves, and/or advocate on their behalf.
- Knowing the person, their care plans and contributing to their care planning via our care planning platform.
- Supporting with health, well-being and personal care, including continence and behavioral needs, as required.
- Independently follow written plans and guidelines for each person.
- Supporting diversity and respecting people’s age, gender, sexuality, ethnic origin, religious/cultural background, abilities/disabilities, and other needs.
- Encourage and empower the people we support to take part in all aspects of the day at the Day Service.
- Listening to individuals and acting on what is important to them.
- To use manual handling techniques to support individuals to access our fleet, be safely secured whilst traveling and to mobilise around the building and the in the community.
Essential Skills:
- Experience in a caring environment with complex
needs.
- Kind, caring, empathetic and passionate about
supporting people to achieve their potential.
- Team player with a supportive attitude.
- Can-do approach to support.
- Physically able to assist with wheelchair use
and manual handling
- Proficient in English for clear and accurate
recording
- IT skills for eLearning and care records
- Creative in designing engaging activities for
complex needs
- Knowledge of total communication techniques
(e.g., Makaton, PECs)
- Strong adaptable communication skills
- Collaborative with care teams, therapists, and
families
- Experience in leading activities
- Committed to promoting independence, dignity,
and quality of life
Good To Have Skills:
- Experience with risk assessments
Additional responsibilities may be assigned by your line manager as required, in line with the evolving needs of the role and the organisation.
Applications close on 24/11/24.