Reablement Support Workers
Adult Services

Grade 5 - £9.50 - £11.16 per hour

 

25 hours per week

Agile working across the borough

 

Are you interested in working for the Reablement team?  Are you passionate about supporting people to become independent, you may have experience of working in a similar service or you may have looked after one of your family members but don’t have any formal experience?

 

Your role:

 

We are looking to recruit Reablement Support Workers to join our team, your role will be to support people to live as independently as possible through encouragement, specific techniques and the use of aids and adaptations.

 

You will be part of a team providing physical and emotional support with tasks such as moving and handling, personal care, meal preparation, support with medication and mobility practice.  You will also encourage people to engage with their communities and promote their health and well-being.

 

About you:

Are you patient, confident and can encourage people to engage?  Do you have IT skills or are willing to learn?  Do you want to make a difference to someone’s life?

 

We will be looking for you to possess or have a commitment to complete an NVQ Level 3/QCF credit value in Health and Social Care within an 18 month timeframe and the Trusted Assessor Award.  We will also be looking for a commitment to Equality and Diversity and respect for the rights of service users to privacy, dignity and confidentiality.  You must be prepared to work flexibly to include some weekends/bank holidays and evening work.

 

About us:

 

Wigan Reablement Team has been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Care Quality Commission. Reablement is a service to help people make a swift transition from a state of dependency to independence.  The service can be provided for up to six weeks and is available 365 days a year.  The team will support people who have just left hospital or following significant changes in a person’s ability to cope at home.

 

We aim to:

  • Promote independence
  • Enable and support people to regain confidence, ability and necessary skills to live at home
  • Motivate people where their ability to improve is possible
  • Enable people to remain independent with the use of adaptations or assistive technology.

 

We are keen to recruit people who are able to display the Be Wigan Behaviours – Be Positive, Be Accountable, Be Courageous.  We also recognise that sometimes individuals have a lot more practical or life experience rather than a formal qualification.  If this sounds familiar, perhaps this is the role for you.

 

Instead of following the traditional interview process we are excited to tell you we are having a Reablement recruitment day on 2 November 2017.

 

The first part of the recruitment process will be informal and include group discussions and scenarios in the morning that will be assessed, followed by a 15/20 minute interview in the afternoon. You will also have the opportunity to talk with some of our staff who will share their experiences of working within the Reablement Team.

Interested?  Please complete an application and we will look forward to meeting you on 2 November 2017.

 

The event will take place at Holy Family Parish Hall, Tram Street, Platt Bridge, Wigan, WN2 5JE.  Please arrive at the venue for 9.30am.

If you'd like more information about the Reablement Team, please click here.

 

For further information, please e-mail: kathryn.robinson@wigan.gov.uk

To view the documents relating to this post, please click the link below:

Job Specification.docx
DBS Applicant Information.doc

Find out more about working for Wigan
 

This post is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures.

 

The employer is committed to safeguarding.

Location
Hindley Town Hall
Vacancy Description
 

Grade 5 - £9.50 - £11.16 per hour

 

25 hours per week

Agile working across the borough

 

Are you interested in working for the Reablement team?  Are you passionate about supporting people to become independent, you may have experience of working in a similar service or you may have looked after one of your family members but don’t have any formal experience?

 

Your role:

 

We are looking to recruit Reablement Support Workers to join our team, your role will be to support people to live as independently as possible through encouragement, specific techniques and the use of aids and adaptations.

 

You will be part of a team providing physical and emotional support with tasks such as moving and handling, personal care, meal preparation, support with medication and mobility practice.  You will also encourage people to engage with their communities and promote their health and well-being.

 

About you:

Are you patient, confident and can encourage people to engage?  Do you have IT skills or are willing to learn?  Do you want to make a difference to someone’s life?

 

We will be looking for you to possess or have a commitment to complete an NVQ Level 3/QCF credit value in Health and Social Care within an 18 month timeframe and the Trusted Assessor Award.  We will also be looking for a commitment to Equality and Diversity and respect for the rights of service users to privacy, dignity and confidentiality.  You must be prepared to work flexibly to include some weekends/bank holidays and evening work.

 

About us:

 

Wigan Reablement Team has been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Care Quality Commission. Reablement is a service to help people make a swift transition from a state of dependency to independence.  The service can be provided for up to six weeks and is available 365 days a year.  The team will support people who have just left hospital or following significant changes in a person’s ability to cope at home.

 

We aim to:

  • Promote independence
  • Enable and support people to regain confidence, ability and necessary skills to live at home
  • Motivate people where their ability to improve is possible
  • Enable people to remain independent with the use of adaptations or assistive technology.

 

We are keen to recruit people who are able to display the Be Wigan Behaviours – Be Positive, Be Accountable, Be Courageous.  We also recognise that sometimes individuals have a lot more practical or life experience rather than a formal qualification.  If this sounds familiar, perhaps this is the role for you.

 

Instead of following the traditional interview process we are excited to tell you we are having a Reablement recruitment day on 2 November 2017.

 

The first part of the recruitment process will be informal and include group discussions and scenarios in the morning that will be assessed, followed by a 15/20 minute interview in the afternoon. You will also have the opportunity to talk with some of our staff who will share their experiences of working within the Reablement Team.

Interested?  Please complete an application and we will look forward to meeting you on 2 November 2017.

 

The event will take place at Holy Family Parish Hall, Tram Street, Platt Bridge, Wigan, WN2 5JE.  Please arrive at the venue for 9.30am.

If you'd like more information about the Reablement Team, please click here.

 

For further information, please e-mail: kathryn.robinson@wigan.gov.uk

To view the documents relating to this post, please click the link below:

Job Specification.docx
DBS Applicant Information.doc

Find out more about working for Wigan
 

This post is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures.

 

The employer is committed to safeguarding.