WHY CHOOSE POSSABILITIES?

PossAbilities isn’t just a fantastic place to work; it’s a place where your heart can sing. Here’s why you’ll love working with us:
Awesome Pay: We proudly offer a real living wage. Earn £24,309.07 a year for a 37-hour workweek (pro-rata for part-timers).
Pension Perks: We contribute up to 4% of your salary into a pension plan.
Holiday Fun: Enjoy 20 days of annual leave (pro rata for part time) , 8 bank holidays, and access to our reduced rate holiday home at Ribby Hall Village, 3 extra days holiday on completion of 5 years service!
Duvet Days: Perfect attendance? Have a paid day off to chill!
Health & Wellbeing : Access for you and your dependants for free 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme support, including counselling, and internally trained Mental Health First Aiders to support you.
Social Events: Join fun events with the people we support, staff, and their families.
Discounts & Benefits: We’re a Flexible Pay Employer that offers Wagestream. The money management app lets you choose when to get paid, put money aside each month, get discounts on your shopping, check your benefits entitlement and much more. Not just that but as an employee of PossAbilities you are eligible for a Blue Light Card, ESSO discounted fuel card & similarly a Love2Shop - Every Day Benefits Card all easy-to-use discount schemes which saves you money on your day-to-day spending. We will even refund you the joining fee!

YOUR PURPOSE

Help people using our services to live the lives they choose based on what they need and what is important to them. This covers lots of things such as assisting people with their personal hygiene, washing, dressing, and meals; through to helping people do whatever they choose to do in a day ad when out and about, that makes them happy. You will do this in a dignified and respectful way with a focus on their mental and physical good health.

YOUR ROLE

• Deliver excellent care and support to each individual you work with. Excellent means that it is safe, personal to each individual, is respectful, maintains their dignity, and is carried out according to their needs and preferences.
• Provide each individual with excellent quality personal care. This includes helping people maintain good personal hygiene, washing, dressing, oral hygiene and nail care
• Manage medication according to the person’s needs. You ensure that the individual receives the right medication, in the right dose, at the right time, and support them at the appropriate level
• Prepare meals and help people to eat where they need this according to individual dietary requirements.
• Help with household tasks such as cleaning, laundry, ironing, shopping
• Support people to have a social and active lifestyle according to what they want
• Provide companionship, helping people to feel less isolated
• Work closely with your Support Officers to help plan and review care and support needs and activities in line with each person’s needs and aspirations
• Record the care and support you provide, the feedback from the people you support, and any important information that helps your peers and manager continue to deliver excellent care and support
• Report and record any concerns you have about a person’s well-being