Job Title: Assistant Social Care Worker
Department: Support & Care
Salary Scale: €31,941.00 per annum
Responsible To: Team Leader
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Drumgola, Co Cavan
Hours of Work: per week
Covering a 24 hour, 7 days per week Rotational Shift Roster)
About Trinity
You will be joining Trinity Support & Care Services, an innovative organisation, providing quality assured, safe, and person-centred residential care and outreach support services to children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Key purpose of the job:
As an Assistant Social Care Worker, you will provide holistic supports with day-to-day living, for individuals with a learning disability, autism or associated mental health needs. You will deliver person-centred and empowering provisions of support, to meet the individual needs of our service users.
Main responsibilities
Provide assistance to Service Users in all aspects of personal care. Ensure the Human Rights of each Service User is exercised with the utmost degree of integrity and respect. Ensure a safe environment is maintained at all times for both Service Users, work colleagues and visitors to the unit/house.
Ensure each Service User is encouraged to live in accordance with their own wishes and preferences, and their individuality promoted as far as possible, through new opportunities, promotion of skills and innate abilities. Ensure that each Service User receives the correct and relevant information to allow for informed decision making on their part at all levels.
Ensure each Service User is supported in the least restrictive of ways and positive risk taking is a given element to their decision-making abilities. Support must also be in accordance with a low arousal and non-aversive manner. Personal outcomes are achieved in keeping with each Service User, with clear goals, steps for achieving such and timeframes. Ensure that supports are prioritised, and key commitments kept accordingly. To work in line with evidence-based practices. To ensure that each person is supported to live life to their fullest potential and remain (or become) socially valued members of their communities. Ensure that you work in a positive manner and professionally contribute to your staff team and wider organisation.