Part Time Enabling Support Worker - Next Steps, Bromley

Livability Journal Communications, Inc; London Borough of Bromley; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 14,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Welcome to Shaftesbury bonus (£500)

Birthday day off on your birthday

Recognition and voucher opportunities

Excellent training package

25 days + 8 bank holidays leave (28/8)

Pension scheme

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Shaftesbury Next Steps is recruiting for a part-time Enabling Support Worker to join our day centre team. The role involves supporting young adults with learning disabilities and complex needs, following a person-centred plan and promoting inclusion and wellbeing.

You will maintain accurate records, may assist with personal care and medication, and cover sleep-in sessions, for which you receive an additional £60 per sleep-in. The post is based in our operations team in London.

Qualifications

• Provide support and encouragement by taking direction from the person supported and the person centred support plan.
• Maintain accurate records in line with service requirements.
• May administer personal care and medication.
• Cover sleep-in sessions with additional pay of £60 per sleep in.

Responsibilities

• Support people with learning disabilities to participate in activities and life-skills development.
• Record-keeping and reporting as required by the service.
• Work as part of a caring, community-minded team to enable independence.

Job description

Job reference: 006471

Salary: £12.80 per hour

Department: Operations

Hours Per Week: 20

Closing date:

Job Description

Are you the candidate we are looking for? At Shaftesbury Next Steps we are recruiting for Part Time Enabling Support Workers.

Please note this role does not qualify for visa sponsorship, as per the current guidelines set by the Home Office, as the service is not registered with CQC.

We are looking for people with the passion, talent, skills and experience that all add up to a caring and community-minded workforce.

We believe that the people we support have the right to a full and flourishing life. They deserve the very best in delivery. Driven by our core values, Shaftesbury strives to be Open, Enabling, Inclusive and Courageous in all that we do.

Our disability services across adult care, children’s care and education are all focused on inclusion and support. Committed to professional, flexible and personalised care, we are passionate about going the extra mile in providing opportunities for people to thrive and live well.

About the role

As an Enabling Support Worker it will be your role to provide support and encouragement, by taking direction from both the person supported and the person centred support plan.

You will be required to maintain accurate records while at work, in line with the service requirements. You may also be required to administer personal care and medication.

There will be a requirement to cover sleep in sessions. You will be paid an additional £60 per sleep in.

Next Steps is a day centre that supports young adults with learning disabilities and complex needs to learn and develop life-skills and build confidence.

Our caring and friendly staff, encourage people we support to participate in various activities that challenges them to reach their full potential. Activities that include arts & crafts, sport, fitness and wellbeing, and gardening and horticulture

Benefits of working at Shaftesbury

• Welcome to Shaftesbury bonus of £500 on completion of 12 months of employment (terms apply)
• Happy Birthday to you! As well as sending you a birthday card, all frontline care staff can have the opportunity to take the day off on their birthday, taken from your annual entitlement.
• We want to reward staff in a range of ways for their hard work. You can be nominated for a recognition letter from a member of the Executive Leadership Team and you may also be nominated to receive a gift voucher up to £50 for going above and beyond within your role.
• Excellent training package provided for all staff.
• Generous Annual Leave entitlement of 25 days + 8 days bank holiday for the first 5 years. Increasing to 28 days + 8 days bank holiday after 5 years.
• Pension Scheme.
• Access to our employee assistance program.

Shaftesbury is the disability charity that’s committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them.

What makes life liveable is never down to just one thing - it’s the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from a great chat to a challenge overcome, it all adds up – to Shaftesbury.

Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.

Shaftesbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS/Access NI check.

Shaftesbury is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme and to equal opportunities therefore we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.