Rehabilitation Assistant/ Support Worker - Arabic-speaking

We are seeking to recruit a Male Support Worker for our client, who is a Sudanese gentleman who suffers the effects of an acquired brain injury. The client is physically unimpaired but suffers from cognitive and communication problems.

The Rehabilitation Assistant role involves:

· Implementing rehabilitation and therapy exercises and guidelines.

· Providing the client with support enabling him to access a range of social, recreational, and sporting activities.

· Assisting the client and the rehabilitation team with practical day-to-day tasks and requirements.

· Assisting the client attend appointments.

· Supporting the client with interpreting tasks (including those associated with documents).

· Assist the client assume and exercise increasing responsibility for the planning and execution of household tasks, activities of daily living and vocational and recreational activities.

· Providing the client and his family with emotional and psychological support, information, and advice under the direction of the rehabilitation team.

· Conducting regular informal reviews with the client and his family and providing feedback to the case management team as required.

· Deciding when the case management team needs to become involved.

· Attending formal meetings.

· Ensuring that all recording and paperwork (etc.) is completed daily and sent to ECMS each month for review.

· Assisting the case management team complete and record monthly care plan reviews and reporting any changes to the team for implementation.

· Ensure all policies and procedures and read, signed, and adhered to.

· Ensuring that training allocated to you is completed within the timeframes set.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

· Sensitivity and discretion necessary to working within a client’s own home.

· Ability to absorb complex information and training provided by the case manager and therapists and to demonstrate accurate implementation of instruction and guidelines.

· Effective team working skills.

· Fluent Arabic speaker (preferably Sudanese).

· Excellent written and spoken communication skills.

· Always behaving within the good practice guidelines and standards of consent outlined in ‘The Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers in England’.

· Maintaining accurate records.

Key outcomes:

• Be part of an efficient and effective rehabilitation team.
• Adherence to care plans.
• Effective joint working between all the parties.
• Achievement of planned goals for the client.
• Increased client independence and participation in tasks and activities.
• Reduction in risks relating to the client’s cognitive impairments, psychological and emotional problems.

The successful client will be employed on a 0 hour/ bank contract basis and will be required to be available to cover sickness and annual leave.

Job Type: Zero hours contract

Pay: £16.50-£18.50 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leeds, West Yorkshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Support Worker: 1 year (required)
• Brain Injury: 1 year (required)

Language:

• Sudanese (preferred)
• Arabic (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Location:

• Leeds, West Yorkshire (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: ECMSOI1
Expected start date: 01/08/2024