Residential Services Officer (Younger Adults)

We’re privileged to work with some amazing people here at Jacobs Lodge. We provide respite services for adults with learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities. You’ll play a key role providing personalised support to our residents, so they can engage in a range of meaningful activities during their stay with us.  We want our short stay breaks to feel like a holiday, so offer fulfilling activities both out in the community and within our safe and comfortable environment.  

Each of our residents are unique and with such a diverse range of physical, mental, social and emotional needs, you’ll need to use your person-centred approach to focus on their strengths, promoting their independence and tailoring your support to the individual.  This will include helping people with eating and drinking, taking medication, personal care and communication. We aim to share our culture of care, respect and independence with everyone that uses our service and celebrate diversity, fostering an inclusive approach in everything we do. 

Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values.  The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.

You’ll have an understanding of respite services and/or people with high support needs, or challenging behaviour.  Experience of enabling and providing care in a respite service environment would be an advantage.  Most importantly, you’ll demonstrate our core values, showing empathy and compassion and share our commitment to enabling people to lead full and active lives. As a strong team player, you must have excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with a diverse range of people, working in partnership with residents, families, carers, other professionals and colleagues. Sound basic IT and accurate information recording skills are also essential. 

In return, we can offer you a comprehensive induction programme, so that you’ll have all the training you need to do a fantastic job.  You’ll also get great satisfaction from supporting people get the most out of their stay with us. We’re committed to your personal development and can support you to undertake an NVQ (level 2 or 3) in a care related subject. This, alongside your experience in the role, will help prepare you for potential opportunities in the future to work at a senior level. We also offer an extensive Benefits Package.

As this is a 24/7 service, you’ll be required to work a shift pattern to respond to the demands of the service. Your working pattern will include working every other weekend and a variety of shifts including early, late and sleep-in shifts.