Brain Injury – Support Worker
Brain Injury – Support Worker
Location: Enfield, North London
Pay Rate:
Waking: £16 per hour weekdays, £18 per hour weekends.
Sleep in:
Sleep in (11pm – 7am): £93.60 flat rate during weekdays (remaining 4.25 hours of shift at applicable waking rate) / £106.80 flat rate during weekends (remaining 4.25 hours of shift at applicable waking rate).
Hours required:
- Day shifts are 7.45am – 8.00pm, Monday to Sunday
- Night shifts are 7.45pm – 8.00am, Monday to Sunday
Reporting to: Case Manager and Support Worker Team Leader
Current Vacancy: Tuesday and Friday night shift, and cover for other shifts as and when needed
JOB DESCRIPTION
Overall Purpose:
To provide the best possible care and support to the client, who sustained a Brain Injury (BI), including that which supports her recovery, well-being and ongoing rehabilitation.
Main Duties
- To use therapeutic skills to support the client with her usual activities, such as personal care, medication, phone calls and texts to family members, and leisure activities such as watching films. She does not tend to go out in the evenings, so the evening role will be based at her flat.
- The client has an unsettled sleep pattern at present, and so the shifts may be waking or sleeping night shifts. If this settles the shifts will move to sleeping nights, as they were previously.
- Contributing to the planning of meaningful activity for the client and motivating the client.
- To prompt and assist with cleaning and tidying client’s area.
- Supporting the client with re-establishing a routine of sleep and rest.
- To be aware of the cognitive and behavioural challenges the client has as a result of her injuries and how to support her appropriately.
- To ensure the client is able to maintain her maximum level of independence and provide prompting and assistance as appropriate.
- To be aware of any significant changes in the client’s health functioning or behaviour and to report this immediately.
- To ensure you maintain records as required. This will include making notes on all activities carried out with the client throughout the shift.
- To ensure consistency of approach.
Other Duties
- To undertake any other duties as may be necessary consistent with the objectives of the post, as required.
- To support the client to maintain and develop a variety of relationships (i.e., families, friends and professionals).
- To support the client with daily tasks (i.e. cleaning, laundry, ironing and other household tasks to an appropriate standard).
- To support the client with social skills and to promote independence, as appropriate.
- To ensure that all documentation is accurately updated i.e. Daily Notes, etc.
- To assist with any best interest decision making.
- To attend team meeting online and in person when needed.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential: Female applicants only
Knowledge
- Values the rights of people with a disability.
- Understands the needs of people with Brain Injury.
Skills
- Able to work well as a team member.
- Able to support the client to make the best of their abilities.
- To be competent in basic mathematics and written skills.
- Able to support client with domestic duties (including cleaning etc).
- Able to prompt and supervise with personal care.
- Able to prompt with medication.
- Committed to equal opportunities and demonstrates value and respect for everyone.
Personal Qualities
- Able to maintain confidentiality.
- Able to be a good listener and communicator.
- Able to take initiative and make decisions.
- Willing to learn and undertake training.
- To be committed to the safety and well-being of the client and demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding vulnerable adults.
Physical Circumstances
- Prepared to undertake night shifts, both waking and sleeping.
- Able to work flexibly when necessary.
- Able to attend relevant training, as required.
- Able to work in an environment that fosters independence and life skills.
Where a specific gender is stated as essential, gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1, of schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for female or male worker to work with our client.
Karen is a skilled clinician and Case Manager, with extensive experience in neurological rehabilitation and assessment, as well as amputee management and other major injuries and disabilities.
Her dedication and passion to provide tailored and personalised assessment and case management services for people after life changing injuries, led to the establishment of NeuroHealth.
The team at NeuroHealth consists of 19 specialist Case Managers who will need to, at times, deal with the difficult and unexpected.
Our clients will only ever be represented by people with the character and determination to see the task through and provide the necessary support that will allow the client to cope with not only the medical effects of their injury, but also the wider impact of this life changing event. In short, our case managers are people who can be depended on.
