Relief Support Worker

Creative Support; Swinton; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Creative Support is seeking Relief/Bank Support Workers to assist people with complex learning disabilities and health needs in Swinton, Greater Manchester. The role includes sleep-in shifts and a rota, with weekly pay and a focus on person-centred support.

We welcome resilient, warm, and motivated individuals who value independence and inclusion. Relevant experience is essential, and you must be eligible to work in the UK. Vacancy reference: 96145.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting service users with complex learning disabilities and physical health support needs.
• 12 months prior experience is essential.
• Knowledge of re-enablement principles.
• Ability to work on a rota including sleep-in shifts.

Responsibilities

• Provide respectful personal care, practical and emotional support.
• Assist service users to participate in the local community.
• Work flexibly in shifts over the weekend, including waking nights.
• Develop warm, trusting relationships with service users.
• Collaborate with colleagues, families and professionals to ensure coordinated care.

Skills

Resilience

Empathy

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Job description

£13.45 per hour

Swinton, Salford, Greater Manchester

Relief/Bank

We are seeking individuals who are strong, resilient, warm, motivated, and approachable with a strong value base to support service users with complex learning disabilities and physical health support needs to live within their own tenancies.

We support service users in all aspects of their daily living, promoting choice, independence inclusive of personal care and moving and handling tasks, inclusion and wellbeing. You must have skills and/or knowledge in re-enablement principles. Working as part of our Swinton based team on a rota basis which does include sleep in shifts, you will deliver flexible, person centred support. Experience is essential.

Relief Support Worker Duties

• Providing respectful personal care, practical and emotional support
• Assisting Service Users to participate in the local community
• Ability to work flexibly in shifts over the weekend including waking nights
• Develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships with service users
• Collaborating with colleagues, families and involved professionals to ensure a coordinated and consistent service

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, provides information on the service and shifts as well as directions. You will be paid on a weekly basis. 12 months prior experience is essential for this role.

Vacancy Reference Number: 96145

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.

Recruitment Department, Creative Support Ltd, Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3TS