Person Specification

Please only apply if you meet the below requirements:

Essential Criteria
• At least 2 years experience of providing clinical care and support services to adults with complex care and support needs incl. for example Acquired Brain Injury, Spinal Injury, Learning Disability, Autism and Mental Health diagnoses
• At least 2 year’s experience of providing medication and pain management to people with a complex care diagnosis.
• Experience of shadow-training new complex care workers
• Experience of working with and relating to people from a wide variety of backgrounds

Qualifications & Training
• NVQ or QCF Level 2 in Care / Promoting Independence or equivalent.

Other
Willingness to attend all clinical mandatory and specialist training courses and events
Ability to travel to services around the North West region, providing short-term care and support
Ability and willingness to work flexible hours, covering 24 hours/7 days
Ability and willingness to provide out of hours support and participate in an On call Rota
Full Driving License and use of a vehicle

Vacancy Details

To be involved in the development and setting up of new services, by providing complex care and support to each new individual, ensuring all paperwork is in place within the home setting prior to initial care delivery. To shadow-train new onboarded support workers for each new package of care and to travel around the North West as necessary.

To travel around the North West as required to provide short-term care and support to new individuals in accordance with their Personalised Plan.
To shadow-train new, core care team support workers to ensure they are confident to deliver the care necessary to the person supported and ensure competence ready for clinical nurse sign-off.
To ensure all the necessary paperwork in in-situ within the home setting prior to initial care delivery.
To assist with initial rostering and coordinating rotas for the core care team.
To act as a role model to new support workers by consistently demonstrating AFG’s values, safe, effective excellent quality care and good practice.
To provide all health-related and social support to people with complex care diagnoses including for example Acquired Brain Injury, Spinal Injury, Learning Disability, Autism and Mental Health.
To support people who present with behaviours that challenge by using appropriate techniques and strategies.
To provide safe medication and pain management to the people we support in line with their medication care plan.
To manage medical equipment and supplies and monitor depletion of same, re-ordering as necessary in a timely manner to ensure nothing runs low.
To attend all clinical mandatory and specialist training sessions, face to face and online, to remain competent to deliver care to the people we support in all complexities of care.
To ensure all incidents which cause or have the potential to cause harm are reported and recorded in a timely manner, in line with AFG policies and procedures.
To deliver our vision to create ‘’A world where amazing people do amazing things every day. to the people AFG support in line with each individual’s personalised plan.
To enable and support people to be actively engaged in their living environment and within their local community.
To support people to design, develop and own the support they receive, making an effective contribution to Personalised Planning.
To support people to make informed choices and increase their independence and to follow the principles of the Mental Capacity Act when someone has difficulty making a specific decision.
To support people to exercise their cultural beliefs and practices.
To enable people to form and maintain relationships of their choice.
To support people to maintain their home/living environment.
To promote & increase independence for the people we support.
To support people to access their community.
To enable the people we support to take positive risks in their lives
To ensure the people we support are not abused, neglected or ill-treated. To stop any such poor treatment, make the situation safe and report any concerns to line management, On Call Manager or if need be through whistleblowing procedures.