Female Support Worker - Portsmouth

The YOU Trust; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Travel time paid

Enhanced annual leave

Matched pension

Death in service

Training & apprenticeships

Employee assistance

Staff discounts

Job summary

The YOU Trust is seeking a Female Support Worker to deliver person-centred care and support across Portsmouth. A valid driving license and access to a car are required, with travel across the Portsmouth postcode area.

The role involves home and community-based support, personal care and daily living activities, with shifts that may include evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Salary is £26,490 per year (pro-rated for part-time).

Qualifications

• Must have a valid driving license and access to a car for work.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, non-verbal and written).
• Experience supporting vulnerable people.
• Ability to work flexibly including evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred support across Portsmouth in line with YOU’s values.
• Deliver time-limited enablement and home/community-based support.
• Assist with personal care, budgeting and daily living activities where required.

Skills

Driving license

Communication skills

Experience with vulnerable people

Flexibility

Job description

Female Support Worker

Salary: £26,490 (salary will be pro-rated for Part Time)

Mileage paid at 45p per mile up to 10,000 miles and paid at 25p per mile thereafter as per HMRC guidelines

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time and Part Time Hours can be considered

Closing Date: The first suitable applicants will be appointed

Must have a driving license and access to a car for work use

This role is only open to female applicants

*SPONSORSHIP IS NOT AVAILABLE*

Please note that, in line with the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1, there is a genuine occupational requirement for this post to be filled by a female worker.

YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Somerset and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives. We also maintain an in-house pool of sessional workers, which we refer to as the ‘Premier Crew’.

Essential Criteria:

The ideal Support Worker will:

• Car Driver with access to a vehicle for work, business insurance and be prepared to travel to work across Portsmouth postcode PO1 to PO6
• Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays according to the needs of those we work with.
• Experience of working with vulnerable people
• Understand and promoting independence
• Understand the needs of vulnerable people/people with a learning disability
• Good communication skills: verbal, non verbal, and written

The Role

The role of the Support Worker is to provide excellent and flexible person centred support across Portsmouth in line with YOU’s values at all times. The role is multi-faceted role and includes time limited enablement support to help someone learn a new skill in their own home or the community; community based support where small groups of people will be supported to access volunteering, occupational, social and leisure activities; homecare where individuals could be supported with personal care, housing support, budgeting, social and daily living activities and emotional support.

About You

Our clients want:

• Someone who listens carefully to make sure you understand what matters to them
• A person who is trustworthy and reliable and always does what they say they will when they say they will
• A Support Partner who is flexible and will adapt how they work to meet what we agree to do together
• Someone who is aware of how they come across, and committed to making our support time together happy, friendly and enjoyable
• A person who is chatty, polite, and clear in their communication to make sure that I can understand you
• A Support Partner who is caring, respects my choices, and is helpful and fair in all that we do together
• A person who shares their sense of fun and humour and makes our time together enjoyable

YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.

Our Benefits

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

• Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.
• Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
• Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
• Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.
• Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.