Bank Support Worker

Location : Ipswich, IP10

Days & Hours : Bank hours,Various shifts available - evenings, weekends and school holidays.

Pay :   Weekdays : £15.50 Weekends : £16.50

Driver required? Essential (will need own car to get to work)

Driving Clients Car? Yes, Luke's mobility vehicle

Using Own Vehicle for work purposes? Yes, On duty and to attend trainings

Essential Experience : Understanding of non-verbal communication i.e. Makaton and talk pad

Desirable : Experience working with children

Pets : 4 dogs

Accommodation (while on duty) : Family home

Interviews Week Commencing : Interviews will happen on a rolling basis. This advert will close when sufficient applications have been received. Please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application can be considered.

Start Date : ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks)

With regret, our client's do not offer sponsorship.

We are seeking patient, caring and alert Support Workers for Luke, born in . Luke is a very sociable young boy with a lovely smile, and really loves swimming, walking, physical play, going on leisure outings. Being around familiar people and his peers along with his iPad is really important to him. He lives at home with his mother with other family members living close by. He enjoys going out and about and can take you straight to his favourite sausage rolls in the local supermarket!

Luke suffered a severe brain injury at birth, he is a fully mobile, but non-verbal and a very active young boy and requires full support for all his personal care needs and is doubly incontinent. Due to Luke's learning disability he has very limited awareness of danger and requires 24 / 7 supervision.

Your role will be to support Luke with personal care and accessing meaningful activities in and out of the home, sometimes with his mother as second support. As Luke loves to swim you will need to be water confident. You will learn how to communicate with Luke using non-verbal communication and his talk pad. Luke needs close supervision at all times to ensure his safety and you will need to understand strategies that help keep him focussed and offer a distraction to stay calm. Using positive language, repeating instructions and allowing him time to complete tasks if he feels they are important to him, playing 'hide and seek' and making him laugh.

This is an excellent opportunity for Bank Support Workers to develop existing skills and support this very special young boy. A truly rewarding role for someone who is able to communicate effectively and an ability to work with patience, tact, understanding, warmth and compassion.

Pay and Benefits :

• Weekdays : £15.50 Weekends : £16.50
• 5.6 weeks annual leave pro rata
• Pension (subject to qualifying status)
• Free DBS check.

In order to promote continuity of our high care standards, you will be offered :

Safeguarding

ILS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our Clients within the activities we undertake, and ILS expects all our Clients’ employees and workers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or workers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This position will require :