Enabling Support Worker

TipTopJob; Newtownards; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Welcome £500 completion bonus after 12

Birthday day off on your birthday

Gift vouchers for service excellence (

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Shaftesbury North Down is recruiting for an Enabling Support Worker. You will provide support and encouragement, following the person centred plan and directions from the person supported. Accurately maintaining records and potentially administering personal care and medication are part of the role.

There may be sleep-in sessions, paid an additional £60 per sleep in. This Independent Living service covers North Down Ards and offers a client-driven approach to care across all ages, with strong

Responsibilities

• Provide support and encouragement, by taking direction from the person supported and the person centred support plan.
• Maintain accurate records while at work, in line with service requirements.
• May administer personal care and medication.
• There may be a requirement to cover sleep in sessions, paid an additional £60 per sleep in.

Job description

Location: North Down and Ards, Northern Ireland

Salary : A GBP 13.15 per hour

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time (40 hours per week)

Are you the candidate we are looking for? At Shaftesbury North Down 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.

North Down Ards is an Independent Living service. Independent Living specialises in providing flexible, client:driven approach to care, health and inclusion requirements for people with a wide range of needs and living situations.

Whether support is needed for an hour or two, or up to 24 hours a day, we help people to get the most out of life and their local community. This service, which embraces homecare, accessing local activities, community support and day services, supports all ages from late teens to elderly people.

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 RQIA, great reward. If your service is rated good or equivalent by RQIA 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.

Shaftesbury is the disability charity thats 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 : its 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 conn