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Provide Support Work to Adults who have disabilities in care
Provide support sessions to families of adults with disabilities
Shared Lives Support Workers provide occasional care and support to young adults (up to age 25) who have additional needs according to care plans.
Fostering Together work with families who provid Shared Lives care to adults with wide-ranging experiences and additional needs. Some of these families will receive packages of support provided by support workers who may be involved in a number of activities at home or in the community:
- Personal Care and Medication Administration,
- Educational and Fun activities and outings,
- General routine support and companionship
This essential work helps to ensure the families can continue to provide secure and stable homes to these individuals, while helping to broaden their community. The role is rewarding and varied, and no two days will be the same.
What sorts of needs will the people I work with have?
The people we support at Fostering Together have a wide-ranging needs and levels of ability.
These needs include; learning disabilities, autism, ADHD, epilepsy, physical disabilities, sensory impairments and conditions that need complex or regular medical intervention. Some service-users may be full-time wheelchair users and require full support with getting around and personal care, or others might need help and encouragement to get around with mobility aids.
We also support many service-users who do not have verbal speech, and may use communication aids such as Picture or Symbol Boards, or even use other systems such as Eye-Gaze or blinking. Fostering Together will provide training and support in these Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) systems for the people you support as well as wider support from our AAC Champion, Laura.
How it works
As a support worker you will be matched to an individual or a small number of people in your area (which may include children if you are able and assessed as suitable to support under 18 year oldss). You have flexibility to work to your own availability sessions will be booked in and agreed in advance between you, your supervisor and the family your support. Flexibility is essential as support hours may from week to week (e.g. children's education term times).
After each session you will be asked to write-up a concise report of your activities to help contribute to the person's care plans and progress reviews.
Fostering Together is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all service users and young people in our care. Successful candidates will be subject to safe recruitment checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service check, references, identity checks and qualification checks
Must haves...
- A friendly and personable personality and a real interest in getting to know the young people you will spend time with. You will have a drive in supporting people with disabilities to experience all life has to offer!
- A full driving licence and access to a car.
- Able to navigate our IT system FosterKit with a good standard of written communication.
- Some previous experience or transferrable skills supporting, caring or volunteering with people with disabilities or vulnerable people.
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Provide support sessions to families of adults with disabilities
Shared Lives Support Workers provide occasional care and support to young adults up to age 25 who have additional needs according to care plans.
Fostering Together work with families who provid Shared Lives care to adults with wide-ranging experiences and additional needs. Some of these families will receive packages of support provided by support workers who may be involved in a number of activities at home or in the community:
- Personal Care and Medication Administration,
- Educational and Fun activities and outings,
- General routine support and companionship
This essential work helps to ensure the families can continue to provide secure and stable homes to these individuals, while helping to broaden their community. The role is rewarding and varied, and no two days will be the same.
What sorts of needs will the people I work with have?
The people we support at Fostering Together have a wide-ranging needs and levels of ability.
These needs include; learning disabilities, autism, ADHD, epilepsy, physical disabilities, sensory impairments and conditions that need complex or regular medical intervention. Some service-users may be full-time wheelchair users and require full support with getting around and personal care, or others might need help and encouragement to get around with mobility aids.
We also support many service-users who do not have verbal speech, and may use communication aids such as Picture or Symbol Boards, or even use other systems such as Eye-Gaze or blinking. Fostering Together will provide training and support in these Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) systems for the people you support as well as wider support from our AAC Champion, Laura.
How it works
As a support worker you will be matched to an individual or a small number of people in your area (which may include children if you are able and assessed as suitable to support under 18 year oldss). You have flexibility to work to your own availability sessions will be booked in and agreed in advance between you, your supervisor and the family your support. Flexibility is essential as support hours may from week to week (e.g. children's education term times).
After each session you will be asked to write-up a concise report of your activities to help contribute to the person's care plans and progress reviews.
Fostering Together is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all service users and young people in our care. Successful candidates will be subject to safe recruitment checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service check, references, identity checks and qualification checks
Must haves...
- A friendly and personable personality and a real interest in getting to know the people you will spend time with. You will have a drive in supporting people with disabilities to experience all life has to offer!
- A full driving licence and access to a car.
- Able to navigate our IT system FosterKit with a good standard of written communication.
- Some previous experience or transferrable skills supporting, caring or volunteering with people with disabilities or vulnerable people.