Relief Support Worker

Creative Support Ltd; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Creative Support Ltd seeks dynamic individuals to join as Relief Support Workers in Liverpool, providing personalized care to enhance the lives of service users with learning disabilities. The role emphasizes practical and emotional support while promoting independence and engagement in community activities. Applicants should have at least 12 months of paid experience in care work.

Benefits

Access to a free app for shift management

Qualifications

• At least 12 months paid care work experience is essential.
• Ability to work using own initiative and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Advise and support service users to enhance their self-care skills.
• Promote self-esteem and help users make choices.
• Assist service users in budgeting and accessing activities.

Skills

Promoting independence

Teamwork

Practical support

Emotional support

Budgeting and financial management

Job description

We are looking for creative, positive and dynamic individuals to provide personalised support plans to service users in our learning disabilities supported living services in Liverpool, Merseyside on a relief basis.

Working alongside our dedicated team in Liverpool you will provide practical, emotional and behavioural support to individuals with learning disabilities enabling them to develop the skills to have a great quality of life as important and valued members of the local community.

Relief Support Worker Duties:

• To advise, encourage and support service users so as to maximise their self-care and independent living skills,
• To promote the service user's self-esteem and enable them to express their preferences and make choices and decisions,
• To support service users in budgeting and managing their finances,
• Be willing to work flexibly according to the needs of the service,
• To encourage service user's to identify their strengths and interests and to support service users in accessing social, leisure, education and work activities.

You must be able to work using your own initiative, promote independence and work effectively as part of a team to allow service users enjoy the highest quality of life. Experience of at least twelve months paid care work is essential for this role. You will be paid on a weekly basis.

As a Creative Support Bank Staff member you will have access to our free app which allows you to pick up shifts in any area of the country and provides information on the service and shifts, including directions.

Vacancy Reference Number: 87080

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold awarded.

Applications are reviewed as they are received, we do not provide feedback for unsuccessful applications. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK - This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme, and we are unable to accept applicants with Skilled Worker Visas.