Brain Injury Support Worker Employment Contract UK
Define consistent support with rehabilitation, memory, communication and community participation while reserving therapy, capacity and clinical decisions to authorised professionals.
This contract includes Deliver daily support in line with current rehabilitation and risk plans. Use agreed prompts, communication aids and memory strategies consistently. Pace activities around documented fatigue, cognition and sensory needs. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers
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19 June 2026
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When to use this contract
Maintain consistent support toward agreed rehabilitation goals, maintain safe participation in home and community activities, and deliver clear observation and handover to the multidisciplinary team.
Workplace context: Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.
What makes this role different
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering rehabilitation-team working. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering community travel and lone support. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering financial and capacity boundaries. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering fatigue, seizure and emergency plans. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering CQC requirements where applicable.
Not a fit / obtain specialist advice
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The worker may use strategies in the current plan. Therapy redesign, capacity decisions, medicine action, restriction and management of money outside the authorised arrangement require the relevant clinician, manager or representative. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
What to prepare before you issue it
the home, community or rehabilitation settings included
the shift, sleep-in, waking-night and weekend arrangements
the injury-specific, seizure, behaviour and emergency training required
the vehicle, travel, lone-working and appointment responsibilities
the authorised money, medication and personal-care support
the multidisciplinary reporting route and limits on changing therapy programmes
Day-to-day operating brief
What Brain Injury Support Worker work looks like in practice
A brain injury support worker assists with routines, rehabilitation goals, communication, memory strategies and community participation after acquired or traumatic injury. The contract should reflect fluctuating capacity, fatigue, risk and emotional regulation while keeping therapy and clinical decisions with authorised professionals.
Responsibilities reflected in the contract
Deliver daily support in line with current rehabilitation and risk plans.
Use agreed prompts, communication aids and memory strategies consistently.
Pace activities around documented fatigue, cognition and sensory needs.
Support community participation, appointments and travel within assessed arrangements.
Record observable changes, outcomes, incidents and seizure information accurately.
Maintain boundaries around money, medicines, therapy and capacity decisions.
A realistic working scenario
During a shopping task, the person becomes fatigued and confused about spending. The worker uses the agreed prompts, pauses the activity and follows the financial-support plan, documenting the change for the rehabilitation team rather than taking over funds informally.
Outputs to agree
consistent support toward agreed rehabilitation goals
safe participation in home and community activities
clear observation and handover to the multidisciplinary team
Records and evidence
Rehabilitation and support-plan actions.
Cognition, fatigue and participation note.
Financial or community-support record.
Incident, seizure or change-in-presentation handover.
Care plans.
Care notes.
Reporting relationship
Typically reports to Registered Manager, Service Manager, Team Leader or Care Coordinator. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.
Authority and escalation
The worker may use strategies in the current plan. Therapy redesign, capacity decisions, medicine action, restriction and management of money outside the authorised arrangement require the relevant clinician, manager or representative.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Tools and systems
Care record systems.
Rostering systems.
Medication records where authorised.
Moving and handling equipment where trained.
Secure communication tools.
Workplace context
Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.
Training and certification
Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Contract priorities
rehabilitation-team working
community travel and lone support
financial and capacity boundaries
fatigue, seizure and emergency plans
Information the employer should prepare
the home, community or rehabilitation settings included
the shift, sleep-in, waking-night and weekend arrangements
the injury-specific, seizure, behaviour and emergency training required
the vehicle, travel, lone-working and appointment responsibilities
the authorised money, medication and personal-care support
the multidisciplinary reporting route and limits on changing therapy programmes
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Work setting
Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.
Primary duties
Deliver daily support in line with current rehabilitation and risk plans.
Use agreed prompts, communication aids and memory strategies consistently.
Pace activities around documented fatigue, cognition and sensory needs.
Support community participation, appointments and travel within assessed arrangements.
Tools and training to confirm
Care record systems.
Rostering systems.
Medication records where authorised.
Moving and handling equipment where trained.
Governance focus
CQC context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering rehabilitation-team working. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering community travel and lone support. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering financial and capacity boundaries.
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Brain Injury Support Worker duties
Maintain consistent support toward agreed rehabilitation goals, maintain safe participation in home and community activities, and deliver clear observation and handover to the multidisciplinary team.
Deliver daily support in line with current rehabilitation and risk plans. Use agreed prompts, communication aids and memory strategies consistently. Pace activities around documented fatigue, cognition and sensory needs. Support community participation, appointments and travel within assessed arrangements. Record observable changes, outcomes, incidents and seizure information accurately.
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What is added to the finished contract
The worker may use strategies in the current plan. Therapy redesign, capacity decisions, medicine action, restriction and management of money outside the authorised arrangement require the relevant clinician, manager or representative.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering rehabilitation-team working.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering community travel and lone support.
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They may adapt delivery only within the agreed plan and competence. A substantive goal or technique change should be referred to the responsible therapist.
How should cognitive changes be documented?
Record observable differences, timing, task and response without diagnosing, then hand the information to the named clinical or support lead.
Can fatigue management be written into the role?
Yes. The contract can require work from the current plan, pacing and observation records while leaving clinical changes to the responsible rehabilitation professional.
May the worker manage a person's spending?
Only within a documented arrangement that defines consent or authority, limits, receipts, reconciliation and escalation when the person appears confused or disputes a transaction.
How should a suspected seizure be recorded?
Follow the individual's emergency plan and record observed timing, signs, response and recovery factually, seeking clinical or emergency help through the stated route.
Can the role include driving a supported person?
Yes where licence, insurance, vehicle checks, consent, risk arrangements and expenses are defined and the journey sits within the authorised support plan.
Who decides whether a person has capacity for a decision?
The worker should support communication and report relevant observations but must not make an informal blanket judgment outside the employer's authorised legal and professional process.
What if rehabilitation goals conflict with the person's choice that day?
Respect immediate rights and preferences, use the agreed supportive approach, manage any urgent risk and record the outcome for review rather than coercing completion.