Relief Support Worker

1st Homecare; Bathgate; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading company in support services is seeking a Relief Support Worker in Bathgate. This role involves providing person-centred care to adults with learning disabilities, ensuring their health and wellbeing while promoting independence in the community. Join a values-driven team that prioritizes respect, honesty, responsibility, and excellence, offering various benefits and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

28-days paid holiday a year, pro-rata for part-time staff

Accredited training provided

Employer contributory pension scheme

Health Cash Plan for contracted hours

£10,000 Life cover

Employee Assistance Programme available

Cycle to Work Scheme

Recognition Initiatives

Qualifications

• Enhanced Adult PVG required.
• Suitable values and behaviours are needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred support for adults with learning disabilities.
• Administer personal care, medication, and assist with household tasks.
• Liaise with medical professionals as necessary.

Skills

Respect

Honesty

Responsibility

Excellence

Job description

Relief Support Worker

West Lothian Outreach

£12.60 per hour

The Role

Our Support Workers provide a person-centred approach in providing quality support, which makes our service very flexible and adaptable to everyone’s needs. The role of a Support Worker is integral to the quality of support provision and can be rewarding and inspiring. You will support people to identify and work towards meaningful outcomes, to participate in their community and develop new and maintain existing relationships.

You will be offering care and support to adults with learning disabilities to ensure the running of their home, health and wellbeing. This will include personal care, medication administration, housework, shopping, cooking and most importantly maintaining and developing each person’s independent skills. Social support will be given to each person daily and weekly to ensure involvement and independence within their community. Support plans and risk assessments are in place to ensure continued accurate support.

You will be required to liaise with medical professionals when required.

You may be asked to work between other services that we provide care and support to across West Lothian.

An enhanced Adult PVG is required for this role.

Shift Pattern:

Shifts are 8, 9,10,11am – 3pm, 3pm – 9:30pm

Waking-nights shift 9:30pm – 8:00am

Benefits and Rewards

• Aminimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
• Accreditedtraining giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
• An employer contributory pension scheme

In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:

• Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
• £10,000 Life cover
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• A financial wellbeing scheme
• Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
• Recognition Initiatives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:

Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best.