Female Support Worker

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

Job summary

A charitable organization in the United Kingdom is seeking a Female Support Worker in New Penshaw. You will support individuals with daily living tasks and assist them in accessing their local community. The role is part-time with opportunities for full-time hours and requires a caring personality, experience with challenging behavior, and the ability to follow detailed support plans. An enhanced Adult and Child DBS is required. Attractive benefits include paid holidays, training, and pensions.

Benefits

28 days paid holiday

Accredited training

Employer contributory pension scheme

Health Cash Plan

Life cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts on goods and services

Cycle to Work Scheme

Financial wellbeing scheme

Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience with individuals displaying challenging behavior preferred.
• Ability to follow detailed support plans is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with daily living tasks like cooking and cleaning.
• Assist individuals in accessing local and wider community.
• Enjoy leisure and learning opportunities.

Skills

Honest

Good Communicator

Strong Values

Flexible

Passionate

Self Motivated

Reliable

Caring

Inclusive

Job description

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)

Do you pride yourself on having a caring nature and want a fulfilling role supporting people? Then come work with us. 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.

As a support worker you will assist people with daily living tasks which may include domestic services, social support, personal care, support with medication and meal preparation.

We deliver creative, dynamic and person-centred services providing 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 going through a period of growth, and we are continuing to search for permanent contracted Support Workers who really want to make an impact on the lives of the people we support.

The role

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 have the ability to follow detailed support plans in order 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 the 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 a 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

Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence

Desired Skills

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:

• Honest
• Good Communicator
• Strong Values
• Flexible
• Passionate
• Self Motivated
• Reliable
• Caring
• Inclusive

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your 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'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.