This service provides support for people who live in their own accommodation within the community.
Everybody we support has a support worker who can assist them up to 5 hours a week, to further their independence in the community.
Typical roles of the support worker include...
- Assisting the people we support to find meaningful, paid employment, and once they have found it, to retain it
- Empowering the people we support to resolve conflict and problem solve independently
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- Liaising between the people we support and different agencies (eg: Work and Income, Medical Centre)
- Teaching the people we support skills that will help them become more independent in the community (eg: how to use a bus or an ATM machine)
- Assisting the people we support with budgeting
- Advising the people we support on potential cultural, recreational and social activities and opportunities
- Teaching the people we support home skills (eg: cleaning; cooking; shopping)
The support
worker's role is to assist the people we support to become as independent as they
can.
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