Linkage Care Support Worker – Spilsby Hub

Linkage Care Support Worker – Spilsby Hub

Where: Spilsby

Posted: 02/01/2025

Support Worker

Salary: £26,803 to £28,058 per annum
Hours: Full-time, part-time, waking nights and bank available – full-time: 43.75 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Service: Linkage Care
Location: Spilsby
Closing date: Friday 31st January 2025

About the role

We are looking for motivated, caring and compassionate people to join our team across Lincolnshire. You will be delivering care and support to enhance the independence skills of people with learning disabilities, whilst giving them choice and control over their own lives. As well as supporting in the day-to-day aspects of daily life, you will support people to pursue their interests.

We welcome applications from people who work in other areas of the care sector (such as elderly care) or those with no experience of care. Your previous experience is not as important as sharing our values and being able to demonstrate them, as well your desire to make a difference to the lives of the people we support.

The role will involve:

• Supporting with activities such as swimming, biking, baking and trips to the cinema.
• Organising leisure activities for the people you support.
• Assisting and monitoring the people we support with their personal health and care needs.
• Planning, purchasing and preparing meals.
• Providing a caring environment following specific procedures as detailed in their care plan, whilst maintaining respect and dignity.
• The administration and recording of medication as per the medication system.
• Informing the manager of any significant developments and/or difficulties within the care setting.
• Arranging and accompanying individuals to doctors, dentists and some social appointments as necessary.

About you

• Good housekeeping skills including cooking, cleaning and budget management.
• Able to remain patient in challenging situations and have an understanding approach towards the needs of individuals with learning difficulties.
• Flexible approach to meeting people's needs.
• Willing to undertake personal care when required.
• Basic IT skills.
• Willing to complete in-house training and basic induction.

About Linkage

Linkage Community Trust is a registered charity that supports people with learning disabilities and autism. We deliver high quality care, day services, employability services, sensory outreach and specialist further education throughout Greater Lincolnshire and East Riding in Yorkshire. Everything we do is about valuing and supporting individuals, their carers, and families to ensure that they can achieve their aspirations.

Our values are central to providing high quality, personalised and effective care, support and education to the people we support:

• Respect
• Teamwork

Linkage Community Trust is proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Employer.

Benefits of working for Linkage

• Flexible working options.
• Generous Annual Leave package.
• Health and wellbeing package including employment, financial and mental health support.
• Eligibility for a Blue Light Card – £4.99 for 2 years’ membership.
• Linkage Employee Perks & Discounts – BHSF.
• Linkage Lottery cash prizes.
• Long Service bonus every 5 years.
• Recommend a friend bonus.

Please note that successful candidate(s) will be asked to evidence their Right to Work in the UK post-job offer – we do not hold a sponsor license therefore we are unable to provide Visa sponsorship.

All applications for this vacancy are to be submitted online, and strictly no agency calls or agency CV submissions. Communication is undertaken via email, we advise you check your inbox and junk mail. Should you be offered a role you will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check.

As an equal opportunities employer, Linkage Community Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Linkage.

We encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible as we may choose to close our vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

If you have any questions or require further information please contact our Recruitment team.