Optalis is the adult social care delivery partner on behalf of Wokingham Borough Council and the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Council. Optalis is owned and funded by the 2 Councils. Optalis is not a private provider or an employment agency.
Support Worker, Wokingham, New Services £22,572.70
We are currently recruiting for Support Workers to compliment our commitment to delivering adult social care to new services for Wokingham Borough Council.
As a Support Worker you will provide high quality person-centred support and care to a wide range of individuals with learning disabilities, in line with CQC requirements and borough policy.
For this role you will work as part of a team to support our customers with daily living skills and activities including personal care and domestic duties, whilst promoting their independence.
You will also support with, and organise activities, outings and recreation. This role includes responsibility for key working for our customers and working closely with other professionals and family members to ensure health and well-being.
This particular service is responsible for actively enhancing customers lives to become valued members of their community, to develop friendships and relationships, have a life that makes sense to the individual.
Encouraging customers to be able to follow their interests and hobbies, and have the chance to enjoy new experiences working with a can do attitude.
Developing daily living skills – thus ensuring individuals develop independence – breaking tasks down into small manageable steps.
Supporting this for all individuals, but taking the lead where necessary acting as a key worker.
Supporting our customers to have a full life in which they are safe, working in partnership with external professionals contributing to positive behavioural support plans.
Optalis ensures individuals to remain healthy and safe, supporting them within a positive risk taking environment.
Working for Optalis you will also receive a range of benefits, including:
Optalis is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our staff and customers. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a DBS check and will need to provide proof of their right to work in the UK.
We anticipate this being a popular role and therefore reserve the right to close early should there be a large volume of applications. We would therefore advise not to wait until the closing date to submit your interest.
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The DBS clearance level required is Enhanced with Adult Barred list.
For advice and information on disclosing criminal records you can contact Nacro’s support service on 0300123 1999 or helpline@nacro.org.uk
Job Title: Activity Support Organiser, Wokingham
Our Learning Disabilities Day Service (LDDS) is a well-established service for vulnerable adults, who attend a variety of days between Monday to Friday, 9:00am- 3:30pm. We have two bases, in Wokingham and in Woodley.
This rewarding and exciting role will require you to provide support, and guidance to enable individuals to take part in community activities, to develop skills, and abilities and to promote independence and social inclusion. while meeting their emotional and physical care and support needs.
Experience of working with this client group would be beneficial but not essential. The key attribute for this role is to possess a positive attitude towards our disabled client group.
You’ll need to have a full driving license and meet our insurance requirements to drive our manual vehicles. Driving is essential part of the role.
We are looking for people who enjoy working as part of a team and will motivate our clients to engage in activities.
We currently have full time and part time opportunities
Positive Behaviour Support Specialist Trainer, 22.5 hours £35,000 FTE
The Learning and Development team provides a high quality and service specific training to all staff within Optalis, ensuring it meets the standards set by Skills for Health and Care, CQC, and other regulatory bodies. We promote Optalis’ key values throughout all our interactions, supporting managers to assess their staff’s learning needs and ensuring that those needs are met.
This role will be implementing and delivering training on a new Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) package (PROACT- SCIPr-UK®)to Optalis staff members
Responsibilities will be to deliver training to services across Optalis, including those that work with individuals who have intellectual disabilities, neurodiversity, mental health conditions, acquired brain injuries, dementia and those that self-harm.
This is a professionally demanding and challenging opportunity, but ultimately a satisfying role.
Joining now this role will give you the opportunity to shape the implementation with the support from the wider L&D team.
You will be working and delivering training (in conjunction with other trainers) to our service in residential settings, day services and in the community.
To devise and deliver a variety of PROACT- SCIPr - UK® induction and refresher training (Reflecting the prescribed approaches & responses as set out by PROACT-SCIPr - UK®) tailored to meet the individuals that the services work with, ensuring the right values, skills and behaviours are implemented to our staff teams across Optalis.
The majority of training will be theory based and techniques to keep safe with limited services currently needing physical intervention training.
You will train and guide the staff teams to support our customers to have the best outcomes and for staff to understand and find better ways of meeting customer’s needs through communication.
The successful candidate will Hold a PROACT-SCIPr-UK® instructors qualification or willing and able to attend PROACT-SCIPr-UK® full training and requalification yearly as per the companies' requirements.
You will need to be a car driver and have access to a vehicle daily.
Senior Social Worker - Hospital Team. £44,496.00.
£1500 retention bonus pro rata'd and subject to qualifying criteria, with a rolling review every six months.
Are you able to build and maintain strong relationships?
Can you excel under pressure?
Do you want to help vulnerable individuals become comfortable and confident in their own homes?
Our strength is our staff and their commitment to the welfare and wellbeing of our Adult residents.
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Social Worker within our Physical Disability and Old Persons Team. The Senior Social Worker role will be part of the Hospital Social Work team. The Hospital team is based in Town Hall, Maidenhead and works collaboratively with the hospitals and multidisciplinary professionals from hospital to facilitate safe discharges for the residents.
The Hospital team opersates Monday to Friday 08:45am - 5:15pm and on pro rota basis working on Saturday.
You will come to the role with energy, experience and a good understanding of adult social care. In return we will provide you with the tools to do your job, excellent supervision and development opportunities to progress your career.
Successful applicants will be skilled at communicating and working with people with social care needs and with people with a variety of physical and cognitive impairments. You will need to have excellent communiction skills and the ability to work professionally in a multidisciplinary / muli-agency context. You will need to have competent IT skills and be able and willing to learn to use a variety of software systems.
To facilitate as required the implementation of interventions in order to meet residents identified outcomes and achieve their optimum functioning and independence using 3 conversation model.
Woking for Optalis you will be entitled to the following range of benefits:
Applicants should be aware that it is intended that this role, as part of the Statutory Services team, will transfer into RBWM (home | Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (rbwm.gov.uk)) in the coming year.
Social Care Practitioner - Community Team
Looking for a rewarding career in Community Social Care with Adults?
We are looking for energetic, imaginative and flexible people to work in Adult Social Care. We have teams in community and hospital settings. You will undertake assessments of need and reviews of care packages and placements in residential homes.
You should have a qualification in health and/or social care. Social Care Practitioners will need NVQ Level 2 or equivalent. You must have experience of working with older people and people with a physical disability.
Working alongside social workers, occupational therapists and other health and social care colleagues you will be given great support, formal supervision and have opportunities for further training and development.
Optalis is committed to providing excellent services, so we are looking for candidates who are committed to person-centred support, having high standards of practise. You will have the skills to be empathic, a good listener and have an approach that supports people to be as independent as possible.
Working for Optalis you will be entitled to the following range of benefits:
Optalis is the adult social care delivery partner on behalf of Wokingham Borough Council and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council. Optalis is owned and funded by the 2 Councils. Optalis is not a private provider or an employment agency.
Social Worker - Hospital Team. £37,080.00
We provide personal and and practical support to help people lead full and active lives, maintain their independence and dignity, and have choice and control as far as they can to achieve their outcomes.
To hold outcome focused conversations with service users/residents to assist them in find solutions to the issues that have prompted them to contact us.
To operate within the principles of recovery and as such support each service user to reduce dependence on Secondary Mental Health Services enabling a planned integration into local community facilities and then discharge as part of the service user's recovery plan.
To complete holistic and person-centred reviews of the assistance and support that is provided to our residents.
Optalis is commited to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our staff and customers. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a DBS check and will need to provide proof of their right to work in the UK.
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The DBS clearance required is Enhanced with Adult Barred list.
Senior Social Worker - Community Team. £44,496.00
The Department / Team:
Community Social Work Team for Adults in Maidenhead, Windsor and Ascot area.
The Statutory Team (Optalis) works in partnership with RBWM to support local residents.
Tasks involve Safeguarding sec42 of 2014 Care Act Legislation, Care Act assessment 2014, MCA 2005 and BI, Advice and Information, Tele Care Support, Liberty Protection Safeguarding DoLS, Support for Carers and Occupational Therapy support and Advocacy. Optalis provides a range of support and care services for older people, adults with a disability and people with mental health needs both in the community and at home.
To delivery Statutory Services to people who meet the eligibility criteria of the Adult and Community Services Directorate, by providing outcome focused assessments, and then facilitate the delivery of those identified services in order to achieve desired outcomes to meet the needs of the adult.
To provide supervision and support to the members of the team to ensure people are achieving exellence in their roles and they are developing their skills and knowledge.
To work flexibly as part of the small management team to ensure the teams are delivering a high standard of service to our residents. You will be able to lead on projects, be proactive, work flexibly and help us to achieve our aim for continuing improvement.
Senior Occupational Therapist - £43,201.07
We are currently recruiting Senior Occupational Therapist within our Hospital team in Physical Disability and Older Persons Team. The Senior OT role is for Discharge to Assess for Hospital discharges. You will be working to promote independence, protect vulnerable adults and working with Health, voluntary and independent sectors.
This is your opportunity to be the Practioner you want to be, helping to improve lives for the better and to do it to the best of your ability. We want individuals who embrace the person centred philosophy of the Care Act, are hardworking and committed to ensuring better outcomes for the people that require support in the Royal Borough.
You will come to the role with energy, experience and a good understanding of Adult social care. In return we will provide you with the tools to do your job, excellent supervision and development opportunities to progress your career.
Successful applicants will be skilled at communicating and working with people with social care needs and with people with a variety of physical and cognitive impairments. You will need to have excellent communication skills and the ability to work professionally in a multidisciplinary / multi-agency context. You will need to have competent IT skills and be able and willing to learn to use a variety of software systems.
To facilitate as required the implementation of interventions in order to meet residents identified outcomes and achieve their optimum functioning and independence.
You will come to the role with energy, experience and a good understanding of Adult social care. In return we will provide you with the tools to do your job, excellent supervision and development opportunities to progress your career in Social Care.
We invite applications for this exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team and support us with future developments.
We currently support hybrid working with one office day per week, all equipment will be provided by Optalis. The Hospital and home visits to be carried out as and when needed, all PPE kit will be provided by the organization.
Applicant needs to hold a Full Valid Driving license.
Previous applicants need not apply.
For more information about this position, please contact Venorah Lawal (Team Manager) on venorah.lawal@rbwm.gov.uk
Social Care Practitioner - Hospital Team
Social Worker - Community Team. £37,080.00
The community team concentrate on reviewing ongoing care and longer-term work including safeguarding enquiries. Both social work teams include a range of social care practitioners, senior social care practitioners, social workers and senior social workers to manage the day-to-day work. The teams support adults over 18 years who are living in the community with care and support needs.
We provide personal and practical support to help people lead full and active lives, maintain their independence and dignity, and have choice and control as far as they can to achieve their outcomes.
To deliver Statutory Services to people who meet the eligibility criteria of the Adult and Community Services Directorate, by providing outcome focused assessments, and then facilitate the delivery of those identified services in order to achieve desired outcomes to meet the needs of the adult.
To provide supervision and support to the members of the team to ensure people are achieving excellence in their roles and they are developing their skills and knowledge.