We Are St Helens Borough Council

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

Making A Difference as A Night Intermediate Care Support Worker in Contact Cares Brookfield Centre.

A Night Intermediate Care Support Assistant post has become available within Brookfield Support Centre, which provides bed based intermediate care in the community. We help people avoid going into hospital, be as independent as possible after a stay in hospital and prevent people from having to move into a residential home until they really need to.

This post is part of a multi-disciplinary team, working together with therapists, nurses, social care and medical practitioners to promote independent living, support and plan their return back into the community. You will work with our service users to assist in their rehabilitation and care programmes, which have been developed by our multi-disciplinary team to encourage independence and self-management.

You will have experience of caring for people and be able to provide support with personal care, emotional and social needs in a kind, caring, trustworthy and respectful manner, that preserves dignity and self-respect at all times. You will have some knowledge of supporting service user needs and safeguarding of vulnerable adults, though training will be given, and be able to clearly and confidently communicate with clients. This experience can be lived experience and/or work experience.

This role will require you to work throughout the night on a night shift rolling 6 week rota system, which will include weekend and bank holiday working, for which an additional allowance will be paid.

There is an excellent pension scheme and a commitment to your professional development.

St Helens Cares is the new approach to delivering Health and Social Care in St Helens; bringing together a wide range of public and community service organisations to work in partnership, with a united goal of improving people’s lives and improving the place as a whole. St Helens Council is proud to be part of this partnership.

Key to this vision is Contact Cares; which aims to simplify the way we access health and social care services from nursing assessment to social care; reablement to audiology, safeguarding to occupational therapy.

*We are a strong, resilient Council, that respects and values the individuality and diversity that every employee brings to the Council.

*We seek to create a positive, open and progressive working environment.

If you feel you can work both as part of a multi-disciplinary team and on your own, this post will suit you. You should also be willing to learn new skills and participate in identified training programmes to enable you to work in new ways.

Please click attached link for a brief tour of Brookfield Support Centre https://youtu.be/Lkes_nJeAZM

Interested to Find Out More?

You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by emailing us at sharronfisher@sthelens.gov.uk

This post is subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.