Senior Support Worker

Location: St. Austell
Discipline: Care and Support
Job type: Relief
Salary: £11.70 per hour
Expiry date: 01 Feb 2024 23:59

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?

They are looking for Senior Support Workers to join their growing team in St Austell. Experience is not essential as they will provide you with support and training to become a confident Support Worker. Our client is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities. They 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. They are looking for people who are naturally caring and compassionate and align with their values.

Their service at St Austell is a busy and fun place to work. Every day is different and you will support people to develop their skills and achieve their goals in the following areas:

• Supporting people to access community, for example swimming, volunteer jobs, cinema;
• Helping with daily living tasks, such as attending appointments, preparing breakfast;
• Support with medication;
• Providing personal care.
• Promoting independence

They offer

• Annual Leave: 33 days (including 8 days statutory bank holidays)
• Wage incentives: 20% bank holidays’ allowance with an increased rate of 50% for key dates over Christmas
• 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 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 Our client.
• 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 discover new interests, reaching goals like travelling and holidays and working positively with their families and friends.
• Helping individuals to engage in different leisure, home or work-related activities, all according to their personal choice.
• As a Senior 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 household tasks 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 licence is desirable for this role. Full time (37.5) position available only. You will need to have flexibility to work shifts, including sleep in nights, weekends and bank holidays. You may also need to pick up waking nights shifts at short notice due to illness etc., however you wouldn’t be expected to do this as part of your normal working week.

Residential– supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
Location – St Austell, Cornwall
Salary information – £12.60 (basic rate + allowances)
Working hours – early and late shifts and some weekends. Shift patterns vary, 10:30am-22:00, 8:00-18:00; 8:00-15:00, 15:00-22:00, sleep in 22:00-10:30am. Waking night is 22:00-8:00am.
Sleep ins at the service are £58.55 + 12.07% (holiday pay)
Find your place with them and change lives.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

They reserve the right to close this vacancy early should they receive sufficient applications.

Our client's usual terms and conditions apply. Our client is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Our client is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.

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