Enhanced Support Worker - Littleover - Derby

FitzRoy - Transforming Lives; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 17,082 - 18,790; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full training

Weekend enhancements

30 days holiday

Health Cash Back

Employee Assistance program

Blue Light card paid

Loyalty awards

Perkbox discounts

Job summary

FitzRoy - Transforming Lives in Derbyshire is seeking specialist support workers to join a 36-hour-per-week, permanent role in the Littleover area. The job offers shifts 8-8 with pay £12.40 per hour, or £13.64 on weekends, with full training provided for those without social care experience.

You will support service users with complex needs, enabling independence, positive relationships, and community integration within a 4-flat complex.

Qualifications

• No social care experience required – we provide full training.
• Weekend and overtime enhancements rates.
• 30 days holiday including Bank Holidays – increasing with service.
• Free membership of Health Cash Back Scheme for you and your family.

Responsibilities

• Support service users to live fulfilled and independent lives.
• Assist in the daily running of a specialist complex service with 4 self-contained flats.
• Work with management to maintain high standards of care and safety.
• Engage with the local community to promote inclusion and rehabilitation.

Job description

Vacancy Available

• Permanent position
• Full time - 36 hours per week
• £12.40 per hour - £13.64 for weekends
• Shifts 8-8 days

Due to the continued success FitzRoy are recruiting for specialist support workers in the Littleover area of Derbyshire who have experience of complex support needs and mental health conditions. People supported in our services may show behaviours of concern or a forensic background. People can be supported in a community setting who may be supported by a care and treatment order or be supported under sections of the Mental Health Act.

You will work with service users to help them live a fulfilled and happy life, whilst living as independently as possible. You will help to enable them to develop positive relationships and to be valued as equal member of their local community as part of their rehabilitation.

You will support the management in the daily running of a specialist complex service that contains 4 self contained separate flats. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fantastic staff team with strong and positive leadership skills. We provide person centred support and we are looking for those that are ready for a challenge, can use their own initiative, think outside the box, and are highly motivated and passionate individuals.

What We Offer

• No social care experience required – we provide full training in order for you to become an exceptional social care worker
• Weekend and overtime enhancements rates
• 30 days holiday including Bank Holidays – increasing with service
• Free membership of our Health Cash Back Scheme for you and your family – claim back money on services such as Dental, Optical, Chiropractor and many more
• An Employee Assistance programme which includes virtual GPs, Legal advice and more
• We will pay for your Blue Light card
• Loyalty awards and life assurance
• Perkbox shopping discounts

Scroll down for a complete overview of what this job will require. Are you the right candidate for this opportunity?

FitzRoy is a national charity, set up 60 years ago by brave parents as a pioneering alternative to institutional care. Their values remain the values of FitzRoy today – we see the person, we are brave and we are creative – and they thread through everything we do.

We support hundreds of people with a range of needs. You could be supporting someone with learning disabilities, autism, acquired brain injuries or mental health support needs. Many of the people we support also have physical impairments or other health issues. Working for us will give you an opportunity to learn, to grow and to transform lives. Join us today.