Archive for the 'Domiciliary Care Service' Category

Come and join us!

We are pleased to announce that we have the following vacancies to join our enthusuastic and committed team. Please contact us if you would like further information about any of these posts.

Play Services Co-ordinator

Salary: Starting Rate £10.00 per hour

Up to 30 hours per week

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Play Services Co-ordinator to manage SAFSS’ Out-of-School Club service, Youth groups and holiday playschemes.

The Co-ordinator will manage an established team of Playworkers who provide sessions term time and in the school holidays.  The Co-ordinator will undertake regular monitoring of sessions, finances and regular staff supervisions to ensure an overall smooth running of the service.

Registered with Ofsted, the Club works to the ECM and EDCM outcomes, the Principles in Play and the Early Years Foundation Stage. SAFSS Out-of-School was also recently awarded the Me2 award for inclusion and is working towards the Quality in Play kite mark. Applicants must have NNEB qualification or NVQ3 in Child Care and Management or equivalent. Applicants must have a good standard of spoken and written English and numeracy. Experience of working with children with disabilities is an advantage. 

Applicants please note that the hours of work are Tuesday and Thursday between 9.00-6.00pm and Saturdays 9.30-4.00pm. Any remaining hours will be undertaken during normal office hours (9.00-5.00pm). During the school holidays all sessions will be held Monday to Friday daytime.           Closing date: 16/5/11 Interview: 20/5/11

Adult Services Support Officer

Salary: £8.50 per hour

Up to 15 hours per week 

We are looking for an Adult Services Support Officer to work closely with the Adult Service Co-ordinator to plan, lead and deliver individual and group sessions for adults with disabilities. The post will focus on consulting with the people who use our services encouraging choice, participation and promoting community integration.

The post will also focus on ensuring that all adult services are CQC compliant, are working to the personalisation agenda and health and safety law.

Applicants must have at least 2 years experience of working with people with learning and physical disabilities, their carers and parents.  Applicants must also have a minimum of a GNVQ in Health and Social Care or equivalent. The ability to work flexible hours is also essential. Closing date: 13/5/11 Interview: 26/5/11

Domiciliary Care Workers (Part Time)

Salary: Between £6.30 and £8.40 per hour

We are currently looking for care workers who will provide domiciliary care for children with disabilities within the home environment. Applicants must work in line with CQC standards and must have experience in care and be qualified to a minimum of NVQ level 2 in care, or have a commitment to undertake relevant qualifications and training. Suitable applicants would be required to work in the daytime and early mornings, evenings and weekends and during school holidays between 6am to 10pm. (possible night sits)

All vacancies require applicants to be able to communicate in at least one of the main South Asian languages spoken in Sandwell and neighbouring boroughs. We particularly welcome applications from individuals who can speak Bengali and male care workers. Closing date: 13/5/11 Interview: 2/6/11

Minibus Driver (Part Time)

Salary: £7.61 per hour

We are currently looking for a minibus driver who will transport children and adults with disabilities within the Sandwell and Birmingham area. Applicants must be aged over 25 years and hold a clean driving licence. Applicants must also have 12 months driving experience with a category D1 licence.

Duties include the general fuelling and maintenance of the vehicle. The hours of work are flexible and will include afternoons, evenings and weekends. All applicants will be required to take a driving assessment and the ability to speak a South Asian language is an advantage, but not essential. Closing date: 13/5/11 Interview: 26/5/11

Male Playworker (Part Time)

Salary: £7.36 per hour

We are looking for qualified and experienced play workers to work with and create play opportunities for children with disabilities at our Out of School Club.

Applicants must work to OFSTED and EYFS standards and work to the ECM outcomes and the Principles in Play. Applicants must have experience in working within a children’s play services and be qualified to a minimum of NVQ level 2 in play work. Suitable applicants would be required to work in the evenings (3-6pm) and Saturdays (11am-4pm). Sessions during the school holidays are 10am– 2pm during weekdays.

Communicating in at least one of the main South Asian languages spoken in Sandwell is desirable. We particularly welcome applications from male play workers. Closing Date: 16/5/11 Interview: 31/05/11

At SAFSS we take the safeguarding of children and adults seriously and all staff will be subject to an enhanced CRB clearance, checks and references. 

For information and an application form for all of the above posts please contact Kam or Amar on

(0121) 558 2198 

SAFSS, Fenton St, Smethwick, West Midlands B66 1HR

Registered Charity: 1098917

Race Relations Act: 1979 Section 5 (2) (d)                    

Sex Discrimination Act: 1976 Section 7.22

 

There’s snow stopping SAFSS!


Snow outside our premises in Fenton St, Smethwick on 18 December 2010.

Winter conditions did not stop the SAFSS Winter Celebration Party on Saturday 18th December. The event, supported by Irwin Mitchell, went ahead despite the terrible snow. Food, dancing and fun was had by all and our thanks to Irwin Mitchell and all our staff and volunteers who helped the event.

Daytrip to Blackpool

This year SAFSS annual day trip will be to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Thursday 29th July 2010. All SAFSS families and staff are invited to attend.

Any child or adult who uses our services can attend the daytrip free of charge and can also bring a main carer who is free of charge. For any additional seats SAFSS are charging a flat rate of £7.00.

For further information and a booking form please contact Kam or Amar on (0121) 558 2198

SAFSS awarded PQASSO Level 3

SAFSS have been awarded the PQASSO Quality Mark at Level 3. The PQASSO (Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations) Quality Mark, highlights SAFSS’ commitment to efficiency, effectiveness and quality. The Mark was set up by the Charities Evaluation Service (CES) and enables the voluntary and community sector to assess performance.

Mark Davis (SCVO), Neelam Pallen (SAFSS) and Carole Harte (SCVO)

For more information about PQASSO visit: http://www.ces-vol.org.uk/index.cfm?pg=329

Come and meet us!

SAFSS will be at the Compass Jobs Fair, today, Monday 8th March 2010 at the ICC, Birmingham. Come and meet our staff at stand 14 and find out about the range of care vacancies that we have.

We are particularly interested in meeting individuals who are interested in working in domiciliary care (in both Birmingham and Sandwell) and Playworkers.

We look forward to meeting you!

Praise for Therapeutic Massage Training

During December more of SAFSS Domiciliary Care Workers were trained in Therapeutic Massage by Una Peplow, Senior Physiotherapist from Sandwell PCT.

Una was impressed with our staff, so much so that she gave our Co-ordinators the following feedback “I would like to say the attitude and approach to training taken by your staff at my talk on Wednesday was inspiring. They showed interest throughout, were respectful, asked sensible questions and offered thanks at the end of the session. I will (sic) all my talks were accepted with this exemplary behaviour. Offer my thanks to all concerned.”

Our Care Workers will continue to work closely with Physiotherapists to support South Asian children and young people with disabilities in the home environment.

For more information about our domiciliary care service please contact Hardeep Sandhu on (0121) 558 21498 childrens.safss@btconnect.com

More Training News – Makaton

Congratulations to twelve of our care staff who successfully completed a four week training course in Makaton.

Makaton is a language programme used by children and adults who
have communication difficulties. Makaton uses speech, gestures, facial expressions, eye contact and body language and it enables children to develop communication skills.

Our staff, who work in our After School Club, Adults Domiciliary care and Children’s Domiciliary care, all gained a basic knowledge of Makaton. The aim of the session was to give staff a range of tools and techniques for communicating with the children and adults that they care for.

Staff learnt how to write sentences using symbols and how this can be used to write menus and plan activities for the people who use our service. By learning new communication techniques our staff can support our services users to make independent choices about the service that they receive.

The course was funded by Sandwell Early Years at SMBC and the training was provided by Sue Eley from The Orchard School. Our thanks to both SMBC and Sue.

Congratulaions to all our staff!

SAFSS Pilots Induction Programme

SAFSS have been confirmed as Sandwell’s pilot for Artemis, the Children’s Workforce Induction Programme (CWIP).

Artemis is a quality e-learning package, developed by the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) to embrace the ‘One Children’s Workforce’ philosophy.

The package acts as an introduction to the Every Child Matters (ECM) five outcomes and outlines seven induction standards to which all people working with children must meet. The ‘One Children’s Workforce’ includes the statutory, private, voluntary and independent sector and includes the unpaid workforce such as volunteers running a football club.

Chief Executive Parpinder Dhatt said “SAFSS are proud to be one of the first organisations to do this induction and we are setting standards for other organisations in the health and social care field, as well as in the wider voluntary and community sector. SAFSS believes in the Artemis philisophy and rationale of ‘Everyone can make a difference’ and ‘We need to work together better to protect our children’ and it fits with our organisational mission and vision.

For more information on the Children’s Workforce Development Council www.cwdcouncil.org.uk

Successful daytrip to Legoland

Over 200 of our children, young people and adults along with their parents and carers took part in SAFSS annual daytrip on 29th July. This year we visited Legoland and everyone had a fantastic time. The torrential downpour of rain on arrival in Windsor did not dampen our spirits and as the day wore on the appearance of the sun made for a wonderful day!

Chief Executive Parpinder K Dhatt said ” I would like to thank all the staff who worked so hard to organise our day trip to Legoland. The annual daytrip is very important to SAFSS and our families always look forward to it. We have had a wonderful time and families are already asking where we are going next year.”

Every year SAFSS needs to raise £4,500 to pay to hire specially adapted coaches and associated costs. Please contact Claire Bradshaw on (0121) 558 2198 or devmgt.safss@btconnect.com if you are interested in sponsoring our daytrip for 2010.

A visit the Special Olympics

In its 8th year the Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition to more than 2.25 million children and adults with learning disabilities. Service users from our After School Club and Adults Group visited the Special Olympics in Leicester and were shown around by Leicester Cobras’ Jignesh Vaidya.

Football and cricket were the sports seen by our group although they were spoilt for choice with all the different sports on offer. One day was not enough and we are planning a longer trip next time!

Chief Executive Parpinder K Dhatt said “Visiting the Special Olympics was a great opportunity for our children and adults. To see an event where children and young people with learning disabilities are taking part indepedently, with such a strong team spirit and in such a great atmosphere was a very positive experience for our group. This event has given our young people the incentive to set up their own team and has helped us to see how we as an organisation can get more out of sport.”

For more information about our After School Club please contact Sayma on (0121) 558 2198 or asc.safss@btconnect.com. For more information about our Adults group please contact Arathi on (0121)5582198 or adults.safss@btconnect.com

For more information on the Special Olympics Leicester http://www.sol2009.com/home/faqs#whatisspecialolympics

For more information about Leicester Cobras Wheelchair Basketball Club

http://www.leicestercobras.org.uk/Leicester_Cobras_Wheelchair_Basketball_Club/Welcome_to_the_Leicester_Cobras.html

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