Male Support Worker (Enablement Practitioner) - (SBP069)

PBS4; Southampton; In loco; GBP 18.000 - 25.000; Part-time

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

29 days annual leave (pro rata)

Pension scheme

Induction training

Refer a friend bonus

Descrizione del lavoro

PBS4 is seeking a Part-time Permanent Associate in Southampton to support a client with autism and learning disabilities. The role requires a full UK manual driving licence and involves assisting with daily tasks, shopping, cooking, and personal care in a supportive, team-based setting.

The role emphasizes resilience and calm, with opportunities for training and a structured support from a management and clinical team. Sponsorship is not available for new applicants.

Competenze

• Experience in social care is desirable
• Ability to handle challenging behaviours with calm and resilience
• Ability to set clear boundaries and build trust

Mansioni

• Support Julian with shopping, cooking, household tasks and personal care
• Communicate in a calm and positive manner with the individual
• Be outgoing and physically active, able to work under pressure

Descrizione del lavoro

Part-time Permanent Associate

Description

Salary: £15.69 per hour

Location: Southampton, Hampshire

Hours of work: Part time hours

Driver: Full UK -manual driver's licence

Whilst PBS4 holds a Sponsorship license, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to any new applicants to PBS4. We wish you all the best with your job search and future career.

About the role

Julian is a 36-year-old man, living in the Southampton area, supported on a 3 -1 ratio. He has a diagnosis of autism and mild to moderate intellectual disability.

Julian has experienced a significant amount of change in his life to date, with multiple placement breakdowns, hospitalisation, and trauma informed care. Team members will need to be experienced in supporting individuals who can present with Behaviours than can challenge that cant always be predicted and therefore you will need to be a responsive and resilient, individual who is calm and patient in a highly pressurised environment.

Whilst experience within social care is desirable, we have seen that there are some extremely transferrable skills from other professions that will be considered.

Julian is a gentleman who enjoys, going for walks along the beach, listening to music, and swimming with his team members.

We are looking for team members who are outgoing and physically active. You will need to have the ability to set clear boundaries and do what you say you are going to do, so as to ensure you build trust and a positive working relationship.

Julian responds well to positive verbal prompts and requires support with shopping, cooking, household tasks and personal care.

Julian is very articulate and needs Team members to communicate in calm and positive manner.

Why work for us?

• Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued
• Have support from an experienced management and clinical team
• Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support
• Have training opportunities that enhance your career development

Benefits include: 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1-year anniversary with PBS4., in-house paid induction training, followed by 12 weeks blended e-learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme, earned wage access, and access to various other benefits through our enhanced Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and receive £300.00 for every successful person you refer.

About PBS4

PBS4 is a values led social care organisation, providing Neurodisability Services to individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism and/or behaviours that may challenge. We support people living in their own homes, with their own tenancies, and we utilise Positive Behaviour Support as the framework for the support we provide.

We are a medium-sized organisation supporting people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Somerset, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of around 450 employees.

The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these! We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social care!

Be the change!

People with learning disabilities should have the same right to an ordinary life as anyone else. They need support from people like you to help them achieve this. If you are passionate about helping people to achieve the life they deserve and thrive of seeing others succeed, then a career with PBS4 is the career for you. We value experience in supporting others, but we warmly welcome people without experience who share our values.

We want to create new ways of working, led by passion and drive for doing what is right, and promote innovation from our teams. Join us on our mission to disrupt social care!

Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010

Company Overview

PBS4 provides support to enable people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour to have independent lives and to live in their own home. Our approach is underpinned by Positive Behaviour Support. Positive Behaviour Support is an approach mostly used to support people with learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge others. The goal is to shift the focus away from reducing challenging behaviour to understanding what that behaviour means and supporting people to get what they need better.