Female Support Worker – Full Time – Willen

Catering; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Catering in Milton Keynes is looking for an outgoing and friendly support worker to join a small team caring for a 42-year-old gentleman with learning and physical disabilities at his home. The role is one-to-one and in pairs, with duties including personal care and assisting with daily activities.

The ideal candidate will be resilient, confident and a team player, with experience in care, ability to support using ceiling track hoists, and good communication.

Qualifications

• Experience in support and care work including ceiling track hoists.
• Experience of working with challenging behaviour
• A flexible approach
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player
• Cleaning driving licence
• Experience of working with learning and physical disabilities
• Able to swim

Skills

Experience in care work

Ceiling hoists

Challenging behaviour

Flexible approach

Communication skills

Team player

Driving licence

Learning disabilities

Able to swim

Job description

We are currently recruiting an outgoing and friendly support worker to join our small team looking after a 42-year-old gentleman with learning and physical disabilities providing support on a one-to-one basis and in pairs. Our client is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair. He has quadriplegic cerebral palsy.

You will be experienced and required to provide personal care and support to our client within his own home. Our ideal candidate will be confident, resilient and have an outgoing outlook.

Our client really enjoys listening to music and watching DVDs, going for walks, going to the pub for lunch, going on the wheelchair adapted swing, swimming, cinema, MK theatre.

The perfect candidate will have

• Experience in support and care work including ceiling track hoists.
• Experience of working with challenging behaviour
• A flexible approach
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player
• Cleaning driving licence
• Experience of working with learning and physical disabilities
• Able to swim

Shifts are 8am-3pm, 3pm-10.30pm. 7pm-8am (10.30pm-8am is a sleep-in)

Pay: Monday to Friday- day shifts £15/hr and

£16.50/hr for weekends

A full clean driving licence, insurance and access to a car are essential.

Closing Date: ASAP

*Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for a female worker to work with our client.

Salary: £15.00 – £16.50/hour

Job Type: Permanent

Location: ,Milton Keys