Enabling Support Worker

Shaftesbury group; Conwy; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday day off

Gift vouchers for good performance

Excellent training package

Generous annual leave 25 days + 8 BH

Pension scheme

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Shaftesbury group is recruiting a Part Time Enabling Support Worker to assist people in Conwy in their own homes and supported living settings. You will follow person-centred plans, provide encouragement, and maintain accurate records while respecting privacy and dignity.

The role includes occasional sleep-in duties with a payment of £60 per sleep-in and a commitment to flexible, compassionate care across our services in Conwy and Denbighshire. A friendly, respectful team environment awaits.

Qualifications

• Ability to follow person-centred support plans.
• Maintain accurate records in a care setting.
• Demonstrate compassionate, community-minded approach.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and encouragement per plan.
• Assist with personal care and medication administration if required.
• Cover sleep-in sessions with an extra £60 payment.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

Enabling Support Worker (Part Time)

Location: Springbank, Conwy

Salary: £13.45 per hour

Hours: 15 hours per week

We are recruiting for a Part Time Enabling Support Worker.

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, children’s 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 £60 per sleep in.

We operate a range of Supported Living services in Conwy and Denbighshire. Our services provide person-centred, responsive support for the people we support in their own homes.

Support is available 24 hours a day. Our staff work closely with local GPs, psychologist, psychiatrists, speech and language therapists and community / learning disability nurses where relevant. This ensures support is tailored to the people we support.

Shaftesbury North Wales provides support at a range of properties. Each person has their own bedroom which they can decorate as they choose. We support people to create homely, welcoming environments that they are proud to call their own.

Benefits of working at Shaftesbury

• 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 £30 gift voucher. If rated outstanding, all staff will receive a £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 £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.

Shaftesbury is the disability charity that is committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them.

What makes life liveable is never down to just one thing - it's the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from a great chat to a challenge overcome, it all adds up - to Shaftesbury.

Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.

Shaftesbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS/Access NI check.

Shaftesbury is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme and to equal opportunities therefore we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

Please note this role does not qualify for visa sponsorship, as the salary requirements set by the Home Office are not satisfied.