Shift Coordinator Hammonds

Hammonds is a Residential Care home providing personal care to 15 people who live with a learning disability and/or other health conditions. The service can support up to 20 people as we also offer short stays.

Hammonds accommodates 15 people across three separate buildings, each of which has separate adapted facilities. One of the buildings has four rooms catered for people who stay at the home for short breaks on a respite basis.

The principles and values of our offer is to provide high quality care and support, ensuring people who have learning disabilities, physical disabilities and autism are supported by the team at Hammonds to live a full life. The people feeling empowered and supported to live the lives they choose.

Salary:Grade 6 £20,903 to £22,183 pro rata
Working Pattern:Full time 37 hour and part time 18.5 hours
Contract Length:Secondment (Full time 2 years, Part time 9 months)
Location: Bognor Regis

We are looking for dynamic, motivated individuals who can support the management and senior team, supporting the services into the future with a focus on empowering, enabling people to maximise their potential and build and develop their strengths, life skills, choices and control about their everyday life in a Residential Care setting.

Residential Care does not mean you lose control over your lives; we are here to listen; communicate effectively and efficiently and learn from the people we support and care for.

The role is key in ensuring the delivery of care and support is effective, efficient, caring safe and responsive. The Shift Coordinator has a lead role in having an oversight relating to people’s health, moving and handling needs, administrating medication, undertaking risk assessments, keeping peoples support plans up to date and accurate and being there for advice and guidance to the support worker team.

You will hold an appropriate qualification in Health and Social Care or demonstrable experience. You will have demonstrable experience of supporting people with learning disabilities and people who have dementia, people who transition from children into adult services.

Having access to a car is essential as you will be required to travel and feel confident to drive a minibus as and when required following the require training and assessment.

The working pattern will be shift work, comprising of early and late shifts and there will be up to 4 sleep in duties within a 4-week period, plus additional cover where there are staffing pressures. We work on a 7-day rota including weekend working.

Key Skills:

Qualifications and/or experience:

• NVQ 2 in Care or equivalent qualification.
• Training in different forms of communication, for example Makaton, SCIP, etc.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually.
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme.
• A range of flexible working options.

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefitspage.

The reference number for this role is CAFHE03167 .

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the roles, please contact Caroline Badger Clark, Residential Manager or Anna Guy, Assistant Manager on 01243 841 005.

For issues or queries regarding your application please contact hrrecruitment@westsussex.gov.uk.

To apply, upload your CV and complete the application explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, 5 years referencing and a health check.

West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.

For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran’s Guaranteed Interview Scheme, this can be found on our application help page.

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