Support Worker

Turning Point; Bedworth; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 15,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days' paid holiday

Full training provided

Job summary

Turning Point in Bedworth, England, invites compassionate individuals to join a 24-hour care team supporting adults with learning disabilities and other health needs. You will help with daily living tasks, activities, and community engagement to promote independence and well-being.

No sponsorship is available for this role; full training is provided to staff with or without prior experience, and a supportive, not-for-profit organisation backs all services.

Qualifications

• Passionate, caring and enthusiastic
• Flexible, patient and non-judgemental
• A great team player with lots of energy
• Good communication skills
• Ability to assist with personal care and mobility

Responsibilities

• Promote independence for residents
• Support daily activities: cleaning, cooking, days out or holidays
• Arrange activities in home and local community
• Develop residents' life skills and personal interests
• Help residents stay safe and healthy
• Assist with personal care needs
• Manual handling where required
• Support people with medication
• Maintain accurate record keeping and support service monitoring

Job description

Job Introduction

Please note this role is not eligible for sponsorship.

Do you have a caring nature? Are you looking to make a difference to people's lives? Do you want to work in an environment where no two days are the same? Are you flexible with your working hours? Can you see yourself providing care to adults who need your support?

If you have answered a big YES to these questions we would love to hear from you.

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

Role Responsibility

What will I be doing?

This is a hands-on job in which no two days are the same. Your duties will include:

• promoting the independence of people we support
• supporting a full range of daily activities including cleaning and cooking, days out or going away on holiday
• arranging activities in the home and in the local community
• developing residents' life skills and personal interests
• helping residents stay safe and healthy
• assisting with personal care needs
• manual handling
• supporting people with medication
• ensuring record keeping is maintained to the required standard at all times and contributing to service monitoring requirements.

The Ideal Candidate

What skills and qualities do I need to have?

Whilst knowledge of learning disabilities and complex needs would be beneficial, it isn't essential. What is essential is that you are:

• passionate, caring and enthusiastic
• flexible, patient and non-judgemental
• a great team player with lots of energy
• able to demonstrate good communication skills
• able to complete the physical aspects of the role such as manual handling where needed
• transferable experience of helping people to manage anxiety

Where will I be working?

Our services in Bedworth provide a 24-hour supported living facilities in providing care for adults with Learning Disabilities and additional health issues such as epilepsy, congenital conditions and dementia. Staff will develop communication skills such as knowledge of signing / visual aids as some are non-verbal.

We endeavour to create positive family relationships offering a good circle of support. There is a strong focus on supporting individuals' lives in a person centred way which includes various activities, shopping, managing own budgets and cooking. We tailor our services to enable people to be as independent as possible.

We use a digital social care record system, to support daily recording, which will make your day-to-day tasks easier and allows you to spend more time with the People We Support.

No experience is necessary, staff with or without experience will be given full training to be able to do the role to the best of their ability.

Shift Patterns

This is a 24-hour service, therefore flexibility is essential. You will be working a range of shifts including early mornings, late evenings, waking nights, sleep-ins and some weekends.

Benefits

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career - we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package.

• You will get 29 days' paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 31 days. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.