Relief support worker

Sense; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent training and development

Group Personal Pension scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

Job summary

Sense is seeking a Relief Support Worker based at our Residential service at Horse Gate, Peterborough. Casual posts are flexible with no fixed shifts, and you will support individuals with complex needs including physical disabilities and challenging behavior.

You will help people live the life they choose, encourage independence, and support learning activities in college such as cooking, gardening, and trips to parks or pools. DBS checks are required, and driving is desirable for this locale.

Qualifications

• An awareness of multi-sensory and complex needs.
• Able to demonstrate that you possess the right values and behaviours to enable you to make a difference to people’s lives.
• A willingness to undertake personal care for our more vulnerable learners.
• Flexibility, as working times do vary and may include weekends and evenings, we will however provide you with a rota in advance so you can plan your life accordingly.

Responsibilities

• As a Support Worker you will support and enable people to live the life they choose
• You will support individuals and encourage them to make choices, to express themselves and to develop independent living and life skills
• Supporting people at college to learn new skills such as cooking, gardening, music or on trips to locations such as swimming pools, parks and shopping centres

Skills

Awareness of multi-sensory needs

Willingness to undertake personal care

Flexibility for weekends/evenings

Job description

Are you looking for a rewarding job where you go home knowing that you have made a difference in someone’s life?

Sense has a great opportunity for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a Relief Support Worker based at our Residential service at Horse Gate, Peterborough. Casual posts are more flexible and do not have fixed shifts. Supporting individuals with complex needs including physical disabilities and challenging behavior. Due to the flexibility of the relief role, no two days are the same.

About the role

• As a Support Worker you will support and enable people to live the life they choose
• You will support individuals and encourage them to make choices, to express themselves and to develop independent living and life skills
• Supporting people at college to learn new skills such as cooking, gardening, music oron trips to locations such as swimming pools, parks and shopping centres

About you

• An awareness of multi-sensory and complex needs
• Able to demonstrate that you possess the right values and behaviours to enable you to make a difference to people’s lives
• A willingness to undertake personal care for our more vulnerable learners
• Flexibility, as working times do vary and may include weekends and evenings, we will however provide you with a rota in advance so you can plan your life accordingly

Note: Driving is desirable and having your personal car will come handy for this location.

About Sense

For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Sense are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer .

Working at Sense can be incredibly rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment. We have excellent training and development, the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement.

• excellent training and development
• the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme
• a generous annual leave entitlement

Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment, where appropriate, are subject to a DBS check; level dependant on the nature of the role.

Sense is here to break down barriers alongside disabled people with complex needs. That's why we're committed to increasing the number of disabled people working across our organisation and creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

We actively encourage disabled people to apply for our vacancies and believe that a diverse range of perspectives, experiences and talents makes us stronger.

We know there's always more we can do to become a truly inclusive employer, and we're working together to achieve that. Join us and help create the change thousands of disabled people with complex needs and families told us they want to see: a world without limits.

If you need us to adjust our recruitment process to help you access our vacancies, then please get in touch with a member of the talent acquisition team. We are a Disability Confident Leader and commit to interviewing disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for a role. More information on this can be found here Our commitment as an employer | Sense Careers