Job Description
Floating Care and Support Workers
Full Time and Part Time hours available, across London
Do you want to help someone get back on their feet? Are you able to work with diverse and sometimes challenging clients? Have you got the patience, the persistence, and the resilience to connect with these vulnerable adults?
If yes, then we would really like to hear from you and from those who have worked in more generic care environments (domiciliary care, care homes) but wish to acquire some mental health experience.
Penrose Community Care & Support (PCCS) is a CQC registered service specialising in working with those living with mental ill-health who also have additional support to maintain independence.
These clients will require additional encouragement for their personal care within their homes but also escorting to appointments and other outreach services. Our clients are all different, many of them may have a mental health diagnosis; physical or sensory disabilities; some may have a history of substance abuse; and some may have been involved in the criminal justice system. All of them need our help to lead good, happy, productive lives.
Benefits, including Non-Contractual Perks
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with length of service
- Training and Development including access to courses, upskilling, and progression plans
- Medicash including discount gym memberships, routine optometry care, dental treatments, and physiotherapy treatments
- Employee Assistance Programme including counselling
- Reflect Practice regular sessions with a therapist provided by an external provider to support Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Life Assurance Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
About the role:
PCCS are recruiting for Floating Care and Support Workers to join our outreach services across London, but focused in Brent, Croydon, Lambeth, Kensington & Chelsea, Southwark, Westminster, Ealing, Bromley, Havering, Bromley and Lewisham. This position will involve a degree of personal care, environmental support, and some outreach services. It will suit both individuals with a broad experience working in a residential or community settings but also those new to the system who are looking for their first step into social care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide care to vulnerable adults with mental health issues or other complex needs, including personal care and domestic help
- To assist service users to engage with the community and access community services
- To encourage independence and improve the skill sets of service users
- To build professional relationships with service users and develop unique approaches to achieve person centred care
- Involve service users as much as possible in exercising choice, control and timing of their support
- Assist service users to attend appointments, training courses and expand on any other interests they might have
- To document the care delivered in a professional and sensitive manner
Experience Required:
- Experience of working in partnership with service users, care managers and significant others
- Experience in working within a regulatory framework (Desirable)
- Ability to work independently with clients who may display behaviour that challenges and/or mental health diagnosis
- Must be willing and able to perform personal care activities
- Good written and oral communication skills in English
- A working knowledge of DoLS, Whistleblowing and CQC guidelines regarding consent and reporting abuse (Desirable)
- An NVQ/QCF Level 2 or above in Health and Social Care and/or minimum of 12 months proven experience working with vulnerable adults in a Support role
- Previous experience with users with substance abuse issues, learning difficulties, autism or complex mental health needs (Desirable)
WORKING FOR US
Our Values
Ambition – Eager to succeed and to accomplish as much as possible for our people
Empowerment – Giving staff and the people we support the tools, training and information they need to achieve their potential
Transparency – Upfront and visible about our actions and open to scrutiny from stakeholders, service users, and staff
Inclusivity – Listening to, understanding and including all our stakeholders to ensure we make a difference and get things right
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please note that this job advert may close early due to screening applications on an ongoing basis. We advise applying as soon as possible for your application to be taken into consideration at the early stages.
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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Salary: £12.44 per hour
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London, Greater London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: One location