Overview
Position Title: Support Assistant
Company: City Of Coventry
Location: Coventry, England, UK
Job Description:
We are currently looking for warm, positive, and dedicated individuals to work in our Adult Social Care Services team, providing person-centered support to adults at Maurice Edelman House
Responsibilities:
- Ensure the rights of people who access our services are promoted at all times, ensuring that the principles of choice, control, dignity, respect, involvement, and empowerment are maintained.
- Ensure that the emotional wellbeing of the people we support is respected in all aspects of service delivery, wherever possible enabling them to assert responsibility for their own lives and obtain and act in accordance with the consent of the person in regard to their care and treatment.
- Help in creating opportunities and choices, so that each individual can achieve their desired outcomes and has appropriate control over the decision-making process about the service they may receive.
- Promote the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual wellbeing of the people we support including supporting people to access local facilities and opportunities.
- Meet the practical and personal care and support needs of the people who access the service (this may include practical support with their dietary and nutritional needs and hands-on care tasks where applicable).
- Assist and support with the administration of prescribed medicines in line with departmental policy and guidance complying with local protocols or instructions which ensure that a proper medication administration procedure is adhered to.
Requirements:
- Your skills will include the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with people who are often in stressful situations.
- You will be inquisitive and able to make enquiries, recording information accurately on a case management system.
- You will need to demonstrate excellent customer care and partnership working providing a positive representation at multi-agency meetings.
