Female Support Worker

Real Life Options; New Penshaw; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A local charity organization is seeking a Female Support Worker in New Penshaw to support individuals with daily living tasks and community engagement. This part-time role offers £12.21 per hour and includes responsibilities such as assisting with personal care and social activities. Candidates with experience in challenging behaviours are preferred. Flexible working hours and various benefits are available.

Benefits

28-days paid holiday per year

Employer contributory pension scheme

Health Cash Plan

Life cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience with behaviours that can challenge.
• Must be able to follow detailed support plans.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals in accessing their local and wider community.
• Assist with cooking, cleaning, and shopping.
• Support daily living tasks and social activities.

Skills

Good Communicator

Caring

Flexible

Self Motivated

Reliable

Job description

Overview

Female Support Worker – Newcastle, NE5. Part time hours with opportunity of Full time hours. Drivers preferred. Salary - £12.21 per hour. Shift patterns will include: 8am-6pm; 9am-9am (sleepover).

About the role

If you pride yourself on having a caring nature and want a fulfilling role supporting people, you will be supporting active individuals within their own homes and out in the community, taking them out in their cars on trips or going swimming. You will assist people with daily living tasks which may include domestic services, social support, personal care, support with medication and meal preparation. Real Life Options provides creative, dynamic and person-centred services with a range of individualised support to people living in shared supported living properties and individual tenancies on a 1:1 basis.

Real Life Options is a registered charity, currently growing, and we are continuing to search for permanent contracted Support Workers who want to make an impact on the lives of the people we support.

Role responsibilities

Supporting individuals with accessing their local and wider community; supporting individuals to enjoy leisure and learning opportunities; providing support for daily living tasks such as cooking, cleaning and shopping.

Across all services, the individuals we support have autism, learning disabilities and at times can display challenging behaviour. We are looking for candidates who have experience with behaviours that can challenge and who can follow detailed support plans to ensure a consistent approach.

Drivers preferred but not essential. An enhanced Adult and Child DBS will be required for this role.

Benefits and rewards

• A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
• Accredited training giving you knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
• An employer contributory pension scheme
• Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
• £10,000 Life cover
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• A financial wellbeing scheme
• Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)

Recognition Initiatives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do: Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence.

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, you could be the person we are looking for: Honest, Good Communicator, Strong Values, Flexible, Passionate, Self Motivated, Reliable, Caring, Inclusive.

Application notes

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we will be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best, so please do let us know.