As a support practitioner, you will support people to live the life they choose.
By following each person's unique support plan, which details the specific personal outcomes that we're
aiming to achieve together, you will recognise and build on people's strengths to encourage positive risk
taking - helping foster choice and control.
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Your holistic approach and excellent interpersonal skills will mean that you provide practical support and
encouragement across all aspects of people's everyday lives, including support with relationships,
mobility, medications, meals, emotions, personal care, money and budgets, health and wellbeing,
communication, planning for the future, participation in sports and leisure activities, and any other
aspect of life that is recorded within someone's support plan.
Your empathetic nature will understand that we're all unique individuals needing support with different
things at different points in our lives.
Responsbilities
Create, update and regularly review support plans to ensure that they are always current and based on
the evidence and opinions available. Use problem-solving and creative thinking skills to suggest
changes, improvements and innovations that could increase people's choices and expand their social
networks. Work interdependently by building and maintaining effective professional relationships with
families, friends and other professionals. Advocate on behalf of people, liaising with statutory and
voluntary organisations, and linking people into community groups and support networks. Follow agreed
human-rights-based processes and systems to ensure that everyone has access to the right information
at the right time to make the right decisions, including completing electronic records, file notes, risk
assessments, incident reports and recording sheets. Effectively manage your time and workload.
This list is by no means exhaustive but gives a flavour of the responsibilities undertaken by support
practitioners. People's lives are dynamic and so good support work means that your daily duties will
flexibly adapt to meet peoples' agreed personal outcomes. We do not work alone, but interdependently
with many others, so there will always be a manager available for you to discuss all aspects of the
support you are providing.
Benefits
Salary enhancements up to £25,494 (£13.04/hr) based on qualifications and length of service.
* A permanent contract, working either full-time (37.5hrs/week) or part-time hours.
* Time and a half payment for hours worked over 37.5 hours per week (averaged over the month)
* Anti-social hours payment of up to £1209 when undertaking waking night shifts (11pm-7am).
* A comprehensive induction, continual professional development including SVQ qualification which
is paid for and career progression opportunities.
* 35 days' holiday per year, increasing to 40 days on length of service.
* Sell back annual leave scheme.
* Recommend a Friend Scheme (T&Cs apply).
* Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and sick leave.
* A Defined Contribution pension scheme, with incremental employer contributions.
* Membership to Lifeworks, an employee well-being and perks platform.
* Membership of a credit union.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Discounts with leading hotels, and more!
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.