Care Worker

Northumberland County Council’s Staff Bank provides a pool of highly skilled temporary workers who are looking for a long-term placement, or who want to work flexibly within the council. If a team needs support due to sickness, common staff shortages, or general vacancies, they call upon registered bank members to fill available assignments. These can be filled via a long-term assignment for up to 12 months or on an ad hoc basis.

The Service

The team at Blyth Riverside Resource Centre provide care and support to adults with learning difficulties. The successful applicant will be expected to promote the wellbeing, self-confidence, and independence to service users, providing activities that meet service users' needs and interests, create opportunities for social contact and learning opportunities supporting service users to access and make best use of local community facilities.

The Role

In your day-to-day duties you will be expected to provide care and support to the service users who attend the Day Centre assisting the supervisory team in the delivery of the Centre's timetable of activities.

You will be expected to meet clients' intimate and personal needs and to maintain their privacy and dignity at all times.

You may be expected to provide 1:1 support to a number of service users working both in and out of the Centre.

You will act as a Care Worker you will be expected to maintain appropriate written records ensuring that all interested parties are kept aware of service users circumstances and report any concerns/issues promptly advising supervisor staff/management of any change to care and support arrangements for the service user.

You will administer medication in accordance with medical advice and service procedures observing best practice.

You should be aware of and comply with relevant legislation's National Standards and Codes of Conduct for Social Care staff.

The key responsibilities and requirements of the role can be found in the attached job description.

Benefits of joining NCC’s Staff Bank include:

• Flexible contract – work and earn alongside your current commitments

• Career opportunities - Build and increase your employability and professional network with the opportunity to gain fixed term and permanent contracts.

• Try different roles within the organisation to find your fit.

• Develop new skills and enhance current expertise to help supplement your career.

Where we receive a high volume of applications for a post, we may bring the closing date forward. You are therefore advised to submit your completed application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

The Staff Bank is managed by the Temporary Staffing Team, who you can contact via temporarystaffing@northumberland.gov.uk. You will be subject to Northumberland County Council's pre-employment checking process which includes a minimum of 2 references covering the past 3 years, health clearance and proof of right to work in the UK and depending on the assignment you may be required to undertake a DBS check.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. If you wish to notify us of your eligibility for this scheme, please email hrrecruitment@northumberland.gov.uk or ring 01670 623930 with your name and the job title you have applied for and one of the recruitment team will ensure this is factored into the shortlisting process and kept anonymous. If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format, please see the alternative methods below. This information will be treated as confidential and will only be used to check that you meet the essential requirements of the post.

For guidance on completing your application and for information about our Equality and Diversity principles, please see the attached guidance notes here

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