Support Practitioner - Forest of Dean

HF Trust; Coleford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization based in Coleford is seeking an Autism Support Practitioner. You'll support learning disabled adults, helping them achieve their life goals while providing personal care and assistance with daily tasks. Essential qualifications include experience with Autism and a professional background in health, education, or social care. The position offers competitive pay, generous holidays, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Generous 33 days of annual leave

Fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care

Health and retail cash incentives

Qualifications

• Desirable to have experience in social care, education, or health environment.
• Previous experience supporting individuals with Autism is essential.
• Full UK driving license is desirable for this role.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals to plan their weekly shop.
• Assist with everyday personal care tasks.
• Enable people to discover interests and achieve goals.

Skills

Experience supporting individuals with Autism

Interpersonal skills

Empathy

Education

Professional qualification in health, education or social care

Job description

Overview

We’re recruiting! Join us as an Autism Support Practitioner and create a future where learning-disabled people live the best life possible.

A professional qualification in health, education or social care is desirable. In addition, you must also have previous experience supporting individuals within a social care, education or health environment.

The individuals we support have challenging behaviour, therefore, previous experience supporting individuals with Autism is essential.

We know that life can be complicated for everybody. But some of us are stopped from working towards our dreams. Many learning-disabled people won’t be heard about the support they’d like. Some won’t get to decide what they do for work. Or how to spend or save their money. Many won\'t get to try out the new hobbies they’d love to try.

But you can change all that.

Do you feel like our values - Kind, Diverse, Positive and Visionary - are a good match to your values? Then we’ve got lots in common already. Come on board and support learning disabled adults with those very values to develop skills, achieve their life goals and thrive in your community.

What we offer you

• Where you’ll be working: Coleford (Forest of Dean)
• Your salary: £14.42 per hour
• Your working hours: early, late and weekend shifts (07:00-14:30, 14:30–22:00, 22:00-07:00). Sleep ins at the service are £60 + 12.07% per night.
• Generous Holidays: 33 days of annual leave (including eight days statutory bank holidays).
• Pay incentives: 10% overtime allowance, 20% Bank Holiday allowance, 50% for key dates over Christmas.
• Training & development: Earn money while you get a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care.
• Lots of benefits: Health, retail and cash incentives to use how you want.

What you’ll be doing

Every day is different. This can range from supporting someone to plan their weekly shop, to going on an outdoor adventure. Providing everyday personal care to supporting someone to go to their favourite gig. Building someone’s confidence in using public transport to teaching money management skills. What’s important is supporting people to discover new interests, achieve new goals and maintain important relationships with their family and friends.

You’ll provide the highest possible standard of care and support for learning disabled adults. Listening to their wants and needs, enabling people to do daily tasks such as taking medication, cooking a meal or working with them to build their confidence and take on new adventures they are longing for. All this while working a variety of shifts to support your work and home life balance.

Public transport is limited, therefore a full UK driving licence is desirable for this role.

We can’t wait to meet you at our Coleford service!

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