Casual Support Worker

Are you looking for a meaningful career? Would you like the opportunity to become a dedicated Support Worker, helping individuals with learning disabilities live the best life possible?

We are looking for **Support Workers **to join our growing team in Morpeth.* Experience is not essential as we will provide you with support and training to become a confident Support Worker*. Hft is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities. We believe in a world where anyone with a learning disability can live within their community with all the choice and support they need to live the best life possible. We are looking for people who are naturally caring and compassionate and align with our values.

​We offer

• Annual Leave: 33 days (including 8 days statutory bank holidays)
• Wage incentives: 20% bank holidays’ allowance with an increased rate of 50% for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. 10% Overtime allowance for hours worked over 37.5 per week.
• Apprenticeships: Earn whilst gaining a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care
• Training: Access to award winning training and development
• Wagestream: Allows you to flexibly access your pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app
• Aviva Digicare + workplace: Access to wellbeing services including health checks, Digital GP and mental health support.
• TELUS health: A 24/service, completely confidential counselling and support platform and helpline that is free for all colleagues to use.
• Discounted mobile ‘phone contracts. As an Hft employee, you’ll be able to take advantage of Vodafone’s Employee Advantage programme, giving you up to 30% off.
• Care Friends: Employee referral app – earn money for referring your friends to work for Hft.
• Retention bonus: £250 every 6 months for the first 2 years of service
• Free life assurance – 3 x your annual salary
• Family friendly policies – term time only contracts, part time, annualised and compressed hours. Generous return to work bonus following maternity leave

What will you be doing?

• Giving the highest possible standards of support to individuals with moderate to severe learning disabilities.
• Supporting them to actively participate in their communities, and achieve the outcomes they have identified. This will include helping them to discover new interests, develop life skills and broaden their social networks, working positively with their families and friends.
• Helping individuals to engage in different leisure, educational or work-related activities, all according to their personal choice. Examples of potential opportunities include community allotment projects, cookery sessions, art and theatre classes, sports sessions, coastal and forests schools, volunteering placements and work experience.
• As a Support Worker (Care Assistant), your responsibilities are varied and no two days are the same.
• As well as providing physical and emotional support you may be needed to help with cleaning and personal care as well as supporting individuals with healthcare needs, e.g. taking medication.
• Everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, providing flexible services that meet people’s needs, and always looking for the best way of doing things.

This is **your **opportunity to make a real difference to people's lives.

A full UK driving license is essential for this role, though you do not need your own vehicle. You will drive a Hft vehicle to pick up or drop off the people we support, helping them to make their way to or from the Day Service, and, on occasion, to attend community-based activities during the day."

• Type of service –Day service supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
• Location – Morpeth
• Salary information – £10.90** plus £1000 retention bonus** paid during the first 2 years of employment (£250 every 6 months*).
• Working hours – Monday - Friday. Mixture of 8am starts or 6pm finishes.
• Up to 50% bank holiday allowance**

Find your place with us and change lives.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £10.90 per hour

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Day range:

• Monday to Friday

Shift:

• Day shift

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person