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About the Role:
The support of service users with their general welfare, housing related tasks and pursuing their social and educational activities. Also to ensure that service users have a detailed Person Centred Plan to include agreed goals and action plans that assist them in achieving and maintaining independent life skills.
About Us:
Camphill Milton Keynes Communities is a charity providing unique person centred support, based on a modern view of the Camphill movement, for adults with learning disabilities and autistic spectrum condition, as well as a number of people living in the Milton Keynes area who have a learning disability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure, together with colleagues, that service users experience a safe, healthy and purposeful environment, in accordance with CMKC policies and procedures and statutory requirements.
- Prepare and maintain written needs and risk assessments and support plan for allocated service users, in cooperation with people and others (in a Person Centred way).
- To support people in making their own decisions and informed choices and to assist them in promoting and maintaining their independence.
- To ensure information communicated to people is accessible to them.
- To support people to manage their own finances, budgeting and dealing with statutory bodies and services.
- To support people to access a range of leisure activities and other services.
- To support people to manage their personal care and health needs.
- To support people to maintain their tenancy and look after their home which they share with other people.
- To work with people to ensure planning of healthy diet choice.
- To support people with attending meetings and appointments if required.
- Provide emotional support and appropriate intervention for distressed or challenging people.
- Monitor the health of people and ensure the safe handling of any medicines.
- To maintain accurate records as required.
- Support people to maintain regular contacts with their own families and/or other significant individuals according to the person’s wishes.
- To liaise with other agencies as required, i.e. regarding service users’ annual reviews.
- Ensure service users are aware of CMKC’s safeguarding adults procedures, comments and complaints procedures and document any incidents, accidents or complaints accordingly.
- Support any community based activities.