Position: Social Care Worker (Adult Disability) Reports to: Service Manager Location: Naas - Kildare – Ireland Salary: €33,630.00 to € 48,465.00 (D

Position: Social Care Worker (Adult Disability)

Reports to: Service Manager

Location: Naas - Kildare – Ireland

Salary: €33,630.00 to € 48,465.00 (DOE)

Position Overview:

Abbreviated, full job description will be provided on application.

The Social Care Worker must have the ability to work with people with an intellectual disability and must believe that the person has the right to live and participate in the community equally with other people. The Social Care Worker, in co-operation with the Shift Lead and the Person in Charge will be responsible for the overall growth and direction of the residents, working within the ethos of the client.

Key Responsibilities:

·       Respect each person who uses the services as an equal citizen.

·       Uphold and respect the human, legal and constitutional rights of each person who uses the service, recognising their individuality and equality, and empowering them to grow, thereby achieving the highest possible level of personal autonomy.

·       Facilitate, encourage, and develop the choice and decision-making skills of people who use the services.

·       Facilitate, encourage, and develop the self-advocacy skills of and opportunities for involvement in advocacy for people who use services. 

·       Enable everyone supported by the services to pursue and maintain their individual hobbies and interests.

·       Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of everyone supported by the services to achieve the greatest degree of autonomy possible. 

·       Facilitate everyone supported by the services to actively participate and integrate into the community, using generic community facilities.

·       Ensure a person-centred approach to service delivery. 

·       In the context of the individual person-centred plans support people who use the service with aspects of individual and group service responses including:

Ø Occupation and leisure activities 

Ø Communication

Ø Behaviour support plans

Ø Independent living skills

Ø Social Integration and the use of community facilities

Ø Personal Care

Ø Personal Development

·       Act as a Key Worker for specific individuals. 

·       In consultation with the individual take the lead in developing and implementing person centred plans for those individuals for whom you act as key worker and ensure that the needs identified are appropriately addressed and participate in residents’ reviews as required.  

·       Ensure all medical appointments are coordinated and supported.

·       Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered and takes individual choice into account. 

·       Develop and implement appropriate training, leisure, social, and personal activities for individuals within the service area.

·       Facilitate individuals to actively participate and integrate into the community, using generic community facilities. 

·       Ensure that all behaviour support plans that are put in place by the Multidisciplinary Team are carried out and adhered to.

·       Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of each person to achieve the highest possible degree of personal autonomy. 

·       Ensure that people who use the service have an awareness of required personal hygiene and personal appearance standards and support them in attaining such standards. This may include the participation in and support of individualised personal hygiene programmes including personal care.

·       Support the individual by ensuring appropriate:

·       Physical support – moving and handling, fire safety, cleaning, laundry, infection control, mobility, and communication needs.

·       Personal care – dressing, bathing, toileting, assistance with eating, sleeping support, skin care, first aid, and health promotion.  

·       Facilitate and encourage participation of individuals in recreational and leisure activities.

·       Share duties and support the residents by liaising with the relevant workshops to make sure house to work transitions are managed according to the individual’s needs.

·       Contribute to and participate in social and recreational activities of people who use services and liaise as appropriate with Day Services Coordinator.

·       Achieve competency in driving the assigned transport and participate in transport duties as required.

·       Encourage and promote each person’s full participation in their home while at the same time ensuring that their home and its environs are maintained to acceptable standards where each resident has access to comprehensive, person-centred, and holistic personal support.

·       Encourage and promote the involvement of individuals in the prudent management of their personal monies in line with the Residents Finance Policy.

·       Encourage and promote the participation of individuals in buying, preparing, cooking of meals and packed lunches as required.

·       Ensure that the religious and pastoral needs of everyone are adequately supported.

·       Administer prescribed medications and maintain all required records in keeping with organisational policy.

·       Assist the Shift Lead and Person in Charge in ensuring, the day to day running of the household and that practices within the house are person centred and are in line with value-based practices.

·       Ensure that buildings are well maintained and in good repair and bring any issued about the home to the Shift Lead or Person in Charge.

·       Ensure that the personal clothing of individuals is looked after and cared for and that the household and bed linen is changed and laundered regularly.

·       Ensure that all legislative, CCoI polices, and regulatory requirements (including Health & Safety Act and HIQA regulations and standards) are adhered to and complied with by continuous monitoring, inspection, and audit of the designated centre.  

Essential Minimum Qualification(s):

Along with the ability to carry out all duties detailed in the job description; it is essential applicants must have the following qualifications:

Ø Hold a minimum of a Level 7 on the QQI Framework – BA in Social Care Studies or equivalent qualification in Heath or Social Care.

Ø Have 1 years’ experience of working with vulnerable adults or adults with intellectual disabilities.  

Ø An understanding of current policy and developments at national and sectoral level in relation to Social Care within disability services.

Ø An ability to follow, evaluate and contribute to the further development of plans and methods to meet the ongoing needs of individuals supported.

Ø Effective interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills.

Ø Proficient IT skills relevant to the role, to include Microsoft Office Excel, Word, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.

Ø A full driver’s licence and availability of own car is an essential requirement.

We are open to speaking to people currently living in Ireland with the relevant requirements and may also be able to assist overseas / Expat workers looking to return to Ireland.

Please apply through the link provided or send your cv direct to mary.robins@themurlingroup.com and we will come back to you as soon as possible to answer any queries or provide extra advice/information.