My Ideal Job as a Support Worker

This article discusses the ideal job of a support worker, including the job description, qualifications, and skills required. It also provides resources for seeking a support worker job.

MY IDEAL JOB
AS
A SUPPORT WORKER

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY...................................................................................................................................3
My ideal job.................................................................................................................................3
Job Description for Support Worker............................................................................................3
Resources that helps to seek job..................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Ideal job can be defined as the job that offers opportunity to learn new skills, progress
and gives high contribution the the firm or organization to meet it’s objectives. In the report I am
going to discuss about my dream job and it’s significance for me. I will explain number of
resources that supports me while seeking my dream job.
MAINBODY
My ideal job
My dream job is support worker that encourage me to improve my personality, nature,
attitude and skills so that I get this job successfully in a good organization. Support worker is the
person who concerns the wellbeing of helpless person and provides. In addition, support workers
provide supports to people to live their life independently as much as possible and assist them to
reach their potential by practical and emotional support (Antaki and Webb, 2019). The support
workers provide emotional and practical support to disabled person and their families who
struggle to live independently due to health issue, emotional problem or relationship difficulties.
Support worker is not only providing emotional support but also provides care support to
individual who has physical, mental and learning disabilities. There are numerous
responsibilities of a support workers which they provide on the basis of customer or client needs.
They help customer or client in that state when they have alcohol addiction. I like this job profile
because I want to help other people who needs care, support and direction to live their life
independently. It is my dream job that inspires me to improve my personality and
communication level so that I easy to interact with disable client and can provide practical and
emotional support effectively.
Job Description for Support Worker
Job Purpose
The main purpose of the job is to support, care and influence individuals to live their life
independently in daily basis whether it be at home, work, day programmes and education time.
Key responsibilities

 The main responsibility of the support worker is to teach people to grow skills and
enhance their independence by offering high quality life.
 Another responsibility of the care workers is to supports client to learn new skills for
daily living which boots confidence in client to do something.
 Supper worker must have effective communication which supports them to encourage
client to have cultural experience and removes feeling of social isolation.
 The major role of the support leader is to help client to make effective decision and
choices that supports them to live their life positively (Bellini and et.al., 2020)
 A good support worker can make independent to a client by making sure them whatever
skills they learn that helps them to be important part of their community or society.
Support worker helps people to live stay healthy and well as well by:
 Support worker has responsibility to meet client’s day to day health needs and medical
needs. The reason behind is that some clients who are mentally and physically disabled
they need care and medical support to stay healthy.
 Disabled person can stay health when they get personal cares so support worker must
perform this responsibility effectively.
 Support worker has responsibility to help disabled learners to organize plan and
accomplishes their goal over the time.
 Support worker also plays important responsibility to maintain a safe environment for the
client whereas they can learn new skills for long time without any fear or discrimination.
 They support client or vulnerable person to make positive goals for their life which they
can achieve over the time.
 Support worker provides emotional support to those clients who have learning disabilities
that causes they cannot be part of a family. But care supporter makes sure client that they
can be part of a family.
Support worker helps people to connect their communities and influences their engagement
in community activities by:

 Support worker has responsibility to develop and maintain community links with
client so that they make them feel valuable in the community and maintains their
wellbeing within society (Compa, 2019).
 They involve family and friends as well while offering practical support to vulnerable
person because it helps client to connect with their family and friends effectively,
Every person needs family or friends support in the whole life because they
encourage client to work hard and achieves its goal effectively.
It is an essential responsibility of the support worker is to undertakes all the
responsibilities in a line along with values, standards and principles heath care.
 Support worker maintains respects, positive attitude and professionalism in their
action’s while offering support to client.
 Even they use their common sense and effective judgement which supports
support worker to maintain standards in their care services.
 Support worker adapts various policies and principles which helps to keep in line
all the responsibilities effectively.
Types of support workers
Support workers
There is various type of support workers who supports client or vulnerable person and group of
people in their home, at workplace and in their society. There is various type of supports which
gives by support workers that describes as follows:
 Support worker provides support to children, young people and adults.
 They support those people who are aged and needs care supports to stay healthy and well.
 They help children and young people to develop skills which makes them independent to
spend their life in dependently and can meet it’s objectives over the time.
 Even they assist disabled person to go to health appointments i.e. doctor, dentist and
podiatrist.
 Support worker teaches skills to vulnerable person which is important for daily life as
well.

Support worker as supporting living
Some support workers offer flexible support to the client or vulnerable person, who lives in their
home but needs support to take a central role in decision-making process (Kelly, 2017). The
main goal of the support worker is to lead the person to use natural support in the society. There
are some examples of support which are described as follows:
 The support worker act as intermediate between people and services because they unable to
take decision. So, they need support from the support worker in term of budget adviser and
others.
 Support workers helps individual to build and establish strong social networks so that they
can easy to seek suitable housing for living purpose.
Support worker for care recipient
IDEA service offers a regional intellectual disability supported accommodation services
(RIDSAS) which is contacted by the ministry of health for giving rehibition services to those
people who requires complex needs. Such type client’s orders by the courts under the rehibition
act and they are known as care recipients. There are several examples of supports which provides
by support worker to care recipient.
 Support worker contributes to discussion and activities which maintain or balance risk
management and rehibition opportunities (Lawn and et.al., 2017).
 Even they work in partnership for improving rehibition opportunities.
Qualification or experience
There is no specific qualification require for being a good support worker but it is
essential that the person who wants to get job as support worker, must have interest to help
others and posses empathy approach for the people. But social and health care department
requires some qualification in a person if they apply for support worker profile.
 Support worker must have experience and qualification in the human services field.

 Support worker have experience people working with intellectual disability (Petrou,
Bakker and Bezemer, 2019).
 Support worker must have experience in community involvement and society networks.
Skills
 A support worker must have good listening skills that helps them to listen client
effectively and builds good relation with them effectively.
 Good leadership skills requires in the support worker because it helps them to understand
group of people at the workplace and influences them to give high performance by
motivating them effectively.
 Support worker must have ability to work independently and become part of team.
 Problem solving skills must have in the support worker because when they have this skill
then can easy to resolve client issues quickly (Judd, Dorozenko and Breen, 2017).
 Time management skills must posses by support worker because it helps them to meet
client’s needs at one time.
 Support worker should have high level patience and emotional intelligence which assist
them to understand nature of client about their life and society as well.
 Support worker must have commitment to respect the rights of people along with
intellectual disability and helps to accomplish their ambitions.
Additional Pre-Employment Check
The support worker must have pre employment check such as:
 They should have full clean drivers’ licence
 The support worker must have requirement to pass a policy check to organization
satisfaction.
 Support worker should have requirement to pass health assessment pre-employment
check such as hepatitis B and drug screening as well (McCabe, 2017).

Resources that helps to seek job
There are various resources i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Monster, Indeed and Reed
etc. supports to seek job. I use three resources I.e. LinkedIn, Indeed and Twitter while seeking
my ideal job. The resources are described as follows:
LinkedIn
It is a social network for the job seeker professionals because it helps people to find ideal
job which they want. The resource is ideal for the home-based business owners, freelancers and
telecommuters. This resource is easy to use such as initially have to crate profile in the linkedIn
login. Then have to fill some information such as professional profile of skills, experience and
others. This resource is quite good because it has ability to see 100 profiles per search and has
ability to have three searches. In the resource can includes some additional features such as
InMail Credits that allows tom message people who are not connected and premium filters
facility also available that makes searching faster and easier. LinkedIn profile is like resume or
business card which is used by various organization as marketing tools. The software allows job
seeker and employer have an online resume and business card where potential employees,
customer and joint ventures can connect directly with LinkedIn profile (Goh, 2018). Job posting
also place on the LinkedIn website by members. So, people can seek for the job easily and can
connect directly with the employer on the specific website. I use LinkedIn resource to seek my
ideal job where initially I create LinkedIn login then fill my skills, qualification and job
perspective and write to seek job for support worker. Thus, I take update my profile in the
LinkedIn software and I upload my resume as well. Later on, I get lots of message in Gmail
account where I check all the message come from LinkedIn software for the job perspective. I
want to get ideal job in the top most companies which I find in the LinkedIn.
Indeed
It is another resource for seeking job where individual can find job by filtering and
setting up a job alert. It is less time-consuming app where can quickly apply for job by uploading
own indeed resume. The resource is idea for the freshers who seeks for the job and helps to
provide better understanding of job which can be fit perfectly. Job seekers an look for jobs by
salary, organization, experience level, job title and others (Petrou, Demerouti and Schaufeli,

2018). In this software can set up job alerts to ensure not miss out any job opportunities. I use
this resource to seek my ideal job and company as well. Initially I create indeed account without
paying any cost and upload my CV. The major advantage of the software is that it allows
individual to save jobs which they want to apply later. The CV allows organization to look for
candidate every day. Thus, I also get job alert from the indeed about job opportunity.
Twitter
It is another resource of job searching that is allows individual to seek it’s ideal job
effectively. It is not good job seeking resource as compared LinkedIn and Indeed but it provides
network from giant business man. By the resource can share things which finds professionally
interesting. Job seekers can get information about latest job opening through the resource. Even
leader can follow key leader at companies in which job seekers are interested (Pucci, 2017). I use
this resource as well get knowledge about latest job opening for the support worker profile.
Thus, these resources twitter, LinkedIn and indeed supports me to find my ideal jbo in the
top most companies.
CONCLUSION
The brief study has been provided understanding about ideal job i.e. support worker who
provided emotional and practical support to vulnerable person to live independently due to health
issue, emotional problem or relationship difficulties. The report can be concluded job description
of support workers in which included purpose of job, types of support worker, job
responsibilities, qualification and skills. The job resources i.e. twitter, LinkedIn and indeed that
supported to seek ideal job can be summarized in report.

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