Part Time Brain Injury Support Worker

Client is a 33-year old female. PM has difficulties with higher level cognitive functions (processing, decision making, multi-tasking, problem solving, memory etc). She experiences high levels of fatigue and would benefit from support to manage the structure of her days/weeks. She experiences high levels of anxiety, especially in community settings. She has ongoing difficulties related to pain and high level balance issues. PM feels overwhelmed easily, and has a tendency to be extremely critical of herself, and would benefit from positive reinforcement and gentle feedback from her Support Worker.

PM has one son who is just over a year old and is expecting her second baby in May 2024. Although the successful candidate will not be required to take responsibility for looking after the baby, experience with infants/young children would be helpful.

Suitable candidates will:

- Have relevant experience in health/social care/mentoring type roles

- Be studying/have studied Psychology at degree level

- Be car owner/drivers

- Be confident, outgoing and active, with good motivational and communication skills

- Be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check

- Be willing to work with the client on a 1:1 basis, in either the client’s home or community settings

Description of the role:

PM sustained a traumatic Brain Injury in a road traffic accident. She requires a part-time Support Worker to enable her to reach her full potential while she undertakes home-based rehabilitation, which is focussing mainly on higher level cognitive skills, and on emotional management (for example, anxiety & panic attacks).

The successful candidate will receive training and supervision from members of the multi-disciplinary team: Brain Injury case manager, consultant neuropsychologist, neuro occupational therapist, neurophysiotherapist.

Activities will include – community-based support (shopping, exercise, socialising), Pilates & physio at home. PM would like to work towards completing the ‘Couch to 5K’ programme. Mindfulness & relaxation are a core feature of her programme, but she has difficulty slowing herself down and stopping, without prompting & support. PM benefits from focussing on activities which are structured, creative and task based – she loves cooking, for example, and a range of crafts, and is ‘destashing’ her wardrobe using a phone app to list & sell clothes.

This role is ideally suited to a psychology student or similar.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £12.75 per hour

Expected hours: 4 – 12 per week

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension

Day range:

• Monday to Friday

Physical setting:

• Homecare

Shift:

• Day shift

Education:

• A-Level or equivalent (preferred)

Language:

• English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: VML/PM/Leicester