Enabling Support Worker

TipTopJob; Colchester; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus after 12 months

Birthday day off

Gift vouchers for good or outstanding

Recognition program

Training package

Annual leave 25 days + 8 bank holidays

Pension scheme

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Shaftesbury Treetops in Colchester is recruiting for an Enabling Support Worker. You will provide support and encouragement to adults with disabilities, following a person-centred support plan and maintaining accurate records.

You may assist with personal care and medication; there is a requirement to cover sleep-in sessions, paid an extra GBP 60 per sleep-in. The role is a 40-hour week at about GBP 12.80 per hour in a high-dependency residential setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in care settings preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and encouragement to the person supported following the person-centred plan.
• Maintain accurate records as required by the service.
• May administer personal care and medication.
• Cover sleep-in sessions (paid an extra £60 per sleep-in).

Job description

Location: Treetops, Colchester

Salary : A GBP 12.80 per hour

Hours Per Week: 40

Are you the candidate we are looking for? At Shaftesbury Treetops we are recruiting for Enabling Support Workers.

We are looking for people with the passion, talent, skills and experience that all add up to a caring and community-minded workforce.

We believe that the people we support have the right to a full and flourishing life. They deserve the very best in delivery. Driven by our core values, Shaftesbury strives to be Open, Enabling, Inclusive and Courageous in all that we do.

Our disability services across adult care, childrens care and education are all focused on inclusion and support. Committed to professional, flexible and personalised care, we are passionate about going the extra mile in providing opportunities for people to thrive and live well.

About The Role

As an Enabling Support Worker it will be your role to provide support and encouragement, by taking direction from both the person supported and the person centred support plan.

You will be required to maintain accurate records while at work, in line with the service requirements. You may also be required to administer personal care and medication.

There will be a requirement to cover sleep in sessions. You will be paid an additional A GBP 60 per sleep in.

Treetops is a high:dependency, residential care home providing 24:hour nursing and personal care for adults with disabilities, most of whom are younger.

People at Treetops have a wide range of individual choice, enabled by active support from staff. The service takes a person:centred, flexible approach. We know that everyones needs and aspirations are different : that all sorts of things add up to a flourishing life.

Benefits of working at Shaftesbury

• Welcome to Shaftesbury bonus of A GBP 500 on completion of 12 months of employment (terms apply)
• Happy Birthday to you As well as sending you a birthday card, all frontline care staff can have the opportunity to take the day off on their birthday, taken from your annual entitlement.
• Great CQC, great reward. If your service is rated good or equivalent by CQC in all domains, all staff will receive a A GBP 30 gift voucher. If rated outstanding, all staff will receive a A GBP 50 gift voucher.
• We want to reward staff in a range of ways for their hard work. You can be nominated for a recognition letter from a member of the Executive Leadership Team and you may also be nominated to receive a gift voucher up to A GBP 50 for going above and beyond within your role.
• Excellent training package provided for all staff.
• Generous Annual Leave entitlement of 25 days + 8 days bank holiday for the first 5 years. Increasing to 28 days + 8 days bank holiday after 5 years.
• Pension Scheme.
• Access to our employee assistance program.