Life Skills Worker
Look Ahead Housing and Care Posted on 2022-11-18
| Salary | £25,000 a year |
|---|---|
| Location | Tower Hamlets |
| Type | Full-time |
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Life Skills Worker
Recruiting for a Life Skills Worker to join our Tower Hamlets service.
£25,000 per annum, working 40 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.
Job Overview:
Working within Tower Hamlets SPS, the Life Skills Worker will hold responsibility for working with clients in our Supported Living Services and guiding Support Workers to provide the relevant support to customer’s . Look Ahead operates trauma and psychologically informed approaches, ensuring that our customers benefit from being supported through strengths-based practices. The Life Skills Worker shares responsibility by ensuring that a holistic and cohesive model of customer support is embed within this service.
The purpose of this role is to assist customers to develop, recover, and improve the skills needed for daily living and working. By working with individuals and guiding support staff in actions that will facilitate a quicker and smoother transition to independence.
Key Responsibilities:
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead.
- Observe customers doing daily tasks, ask them questions, and review their medical history whilst liaising with OT professionals were deemed necessary
- Assess a customer’s physical/mental and overall health needs and complete an assessment aimed at sustainable independence
- Feed into a support plan for customers, laying out the types of activities and specific goals to be accomplished to meet their individual needs
- Help people with various restrictions or difficulties completing different tasks by example
- Offer guidance and direction to colleagues supporting customers who have been assessed as having specific needs
- Assess and record customers activities and progress for evaluations for reporting to
Mission & Values
‘Working with people to make choices, achieve goals and take control of their live through high quality care,
support and housing’
physicians and other healthcare partners
- Undertake all administrative work and keep accurate and comprehensive tenant/customer records to professional standards
- Adhere to Look Ahead’s Policies and Procedures
- Engage in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills
- Engage positively in reflective practice sessions with colleagues.
- Undertake any other duties
Person Specification:
- Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
- Exudes a warm friendly presence and open behaviour
- Prefers working as part of a group or team
- Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
- Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised
- Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments
- Is confident with high levels of self-esteem
- Is respectful, articulate, and sensitive in style of communication
- Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
- Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour
- Demonstrates a desire for continuous professional development
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Essential:
- IT literate
- Experience of working within communities with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Ability to use creative thinking to solve problems.
Desirable:
- Degree in Occupational Therapy
- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent or experience within charity/social care sector. ·
Experience and understanding of mental health and social care services.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs, you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation’
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with the Inclusive Employers Standard 2020. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
Company description:
Look Ahead is a specialist housing association and provider of tailor-made care, support and accommodation services. We support thousands of people across London and the South East with a diverse range of needs, helping them to make individual choices, achieve goals and take control of their own lives. With over forty years in social care under our belt, we are experts through both practice and understanding. Today, we are proud to be the trusted partner of over 30 local authorities and health trusts, providing specialist support and care services for over 7,000 people every year with a wide range of needs, including: • Mental health • Learning disabilities • Homelessness and complex needs • Young people and care leavers With over 100 local services and 1000 staff there are plenty of opportunities for growth within the organisation.
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