Advanced Support Worker, Short Breaks Service (Clarence Gardens – Wakefield)
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Avalon Group is an award-winning charity with over 30 years’ experience in providing person-centred support to adults with care support needs. We pride ourselves in promoting independence and choice, enabling the people we support to achieve their best life experience. At Avalon, we live everyday by our values of respect, honesty, learning & development, inclusion and partnership working.
Looking for a fulfilling and rewarding job that works for you?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Short Breaks service team in Wakefield (West Yorkshire). As a service that operates 7 days a week, 365 days a year, our Clarence Gardens service in Wakefield (West Yorkshire) offers essential respite care for up to four adults with autism, learning disabilities, and/or physical disabilities.
You will play an active role in assisting the Service Managers and Locality Manager with specific management duties, as well as providing hands-on strength-based support to the Avalon guests.
What does the role involve?
- Providing appropriate and thorough induction to the service for new support staff.
- Participating in the locality’s on-call service on a rota basis.
- Supporting the team in a positive and respectful manner, mentoring and coaching staff where required, and identifying areas where further training may be needed.
- Completing medication competencies for support workers.
- Completing all pre-calls.
- Attending reviews for the guests accessing the service.
- Completion of DOL’s paperwork when required.
- Ensuring all support plans and risk assessments are updated as required.
- Have a flexible approach to work and complete any ad hoc tasks when requested/instructed by Service Manager’s
What you need…
- Experience of working in the support sector and knowledge of care certificates
- Excellent communication skills, with an ability to be clear, respectful and professional
- Be capable of working well without close supervision
- Level 3 Health & Social Care qualification, or willing to work towards
- Ideally hold a full valid UK driving licence
- To be able to work flexibly and participate in the out of hours on call service.
Ready to apply? Please click on the link below to complete our quick application form.
Closing date is Friday 11th April 2025 at 12 noon.
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We’re an equal opportunity employer – that means that anyone with the right skills is encouraged to apply, regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, sexuality or any disabilities.
