Area Trainer

Job Title: Area Trainer

Hours: 35

Location: Covering Newcastle and Durham

Salary: £28,000 to £32.000 includes essential car user allowance and working from home allowance.

Closing Date: 1st April Interview will be held on 10th April in Leeds.

United Response offer an excellent benefits package that includes:

• 25 days paid annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part time), which increases after 3 and 5 years’ service
• Pension Contribution
• The opportunity to be part of our UR Stars Recognition Scheme
• Access to free occupational health, physiotherapy, counselling and advice services
• Fully paid training and access to nationally recognised qualifications
• Travel to work scheme (season ticket loan)
• Access to an online shopping platform with discounts from over 3,500 retailers
• Refer a friend scheme

Key Purpose of the role:

To deliver, monitor and develop high quality core and supplementary training to Support Workers across the Areas in line with United Responses’ agreed training plan.

Essential Criteria:

• The candidate will need to demonstrate a solid knowledge, gained through hands on experience, of working with adults with a variety of support needs for example. learning disabilities, mental health needs and physical disabilities

• The applicant must have experience of supporting people who may display behaviour that challenges

• Excellent communication skills

• Good IT skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint

• Car driver and access to own vehicle

Who we are:

United Response is a leading national charity. We have a great team of people who are passionate about providing care and support. This role will see you providing support to people in their own homes. Our support staff champion the rights of the people we support to live, work, socialise and participate in the community, free of discrimination and unnecessary boundaries. In our work we aim to be creative, strong, honest, responsive and united.

United Response is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to the Mindful Employer values and are a Disability Confident Leader, providing support to applicants with disabilities. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. If you are interested in applying for employment with United Response and are in need of support to navigate our website or to complete your application please send an email with your request to recruitment@unitedresponse.org.uk

This position is subject to a DBS Check, the cost to be met by United Response. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early.