Lead Support Worker

Community Lives Consortium; Swansea; On-site; GBP 1,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Community Lives Consortium is seeking a Lead Support Worker to provide essential support for individuals with disabilities. This role involves delivering personalized assistance, coaching staff, and ensuring high-quality care across various settings. The position offers competitive compensation, career development opportunities, and comprehensive training programs.

Benefits

£500 joining bonus

Additional annual leave after 5 years

Long Service Award

Generous Company Sick Pay Scheme

Social Care Wales Registration Fees covered

65p per mile allowance for work mileage

Career Development Opportunities

Training for recognized Qualifications

Employee Assistance Programme

Generous Company Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Full current driving licence required.
• Business Class 1 vehicle insurance necessary.
• Experience with vulnerable adults or complex support needs is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide personalized support to adults with learning or physical disabilities.
• Coach support staff and maintain service quality in various settings.
• Work a flexible shift pattern according to scheduling needs.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Teamwork

Job description

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Variety of contracts available up to 40 hours per week

Community Lives Consortium is a Registered Charity and Domiciliary Care Agency that provides support for people with a learning or physical disability to live the life they choose in their own home within the communities of Swansea, Neath & Port Talbot.

Are you looking for a rewarding job providing personalised support to promote the independence of vulnerable adults within the communities of Swansea, Neath, and Port Talbot?

Our values are aimed at treating the people we support as individuals. If you share our values we would like you to join our team!

For this role, you will receive £11.55 per hour (for shifts worked delivering support) plus £67.75 per shift when you work a Sleep-In.

Lead Support Worker programme which pays the higher rate of £11.55 per hour (when you work directly with the people we support). This equates to a salary of up to £24,088.68 per annum (pro rata for part time).

PLEASE NOTE: This premium does not apply to hours while absent, on leave, on training, or when working additional hours chosen by you to cover vacant support hours.

The Lead Support Worker Programme offers you the opportunity to develop your experience, skills, and knowledge via workplace learning and a comprehensive training programme, enabling you to progress within the organisation into management roles.

Lead Support Workers will be based within a Locality but will also be expected to work in other services across the organisation as and when required.

Supporting documentation (please click on the link below):

Lead Support Worker – January 2023

The aim of the post: To provide support to people with a learning or physical disability to live the life they choose in accordance with their personal support plans. This will involve:

• providing confident, high-quality support to tenants with complex support needs
• coaching other support staff as required to effectively deliver complex packages
• moving if required to new care settings supported by the Consortium to ensure confident and stable support to tenants
• acting up if required to Personal Support Manager positions
• maintaining experience of supporting tenants with complex support needs caused by a wide range of factors
• undertaking additional training to maintain high-quality care in complex situations.

As a valued member of our team, you will also be entitled to a range of benefits, including:

• £500 joining bonus for new employees, excludes Casual Support Workers. The payment is pro rata for part-time employees. £250 pro rata will be paid when your employment formally commences and £250 pro rata when you successfully complete your Probationary Period.
• Additional annual leave after 5 years of service.
• Long Service Award (at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 years of service)
• A generous Company Sick Pay Scheme (Up to 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay)
• Social Care Wales Registration Fees paid by the organisation
• 65p per mile allowance for any work mileage undertaken
• Career Development Opportunities
• Training programme to gain recognised Qualifications paid for by the Consortium.
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Blue Light Card fee paid by the organisation
• Discount at local coffee shops
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A generous Company Pension Scheme
• Support and Wellbeing Advice Service
• Opportunities for your own personal development via Learning Loans
• Rights to Request: Time to Train and Flexible Working
• Opportunity to sell annual leave, within the provisions of the Working Time Regulations.

You will be required to:

• work a variety of shifts on a rota basis including days, evenings, weekends, wakeful nights, public holidays, and sleep-in duties.
• hold a full current driving licence which allows you to legally drive in the UK
• have Business Class 1 vehicle insurance.

This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

All offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory pre-employment health declaration, proof of right to work in the UK, full employment history, and references.