Support Worker

1st Homecare; Dunfermline; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate Support Workers to empower individuals to live independently and achieve their goals. In this fulfilling role, you'll provide vital support in various settings, helping service users make choices and develop positive relationships. With a focus on respect and dignity, you'll work closely with individuals with diverse needs, ensuring they receive the care they deserve. Join a team that values your contributions and offers comprehensive training, competitive benefits, and a rewarding work environment where you can truly make a difference.

Benefits

28 days paid holiday

Accredited training

Employer contributory pension scheme

Health Cash Plan

Life cover (£10,000)

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounted goods and services

Cycle to Work Scheme

Financial wellbeing scheme

Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus

Qualifications

• Looking for caring, trustworthy, and dedicated individuals.
• Experience with adults with challenging behaviour is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide physical and emotional support to individuals.
• Assist with medication administration and personal care.

Skills

Caring

Trustworthiness

Dedication

Communication Skills

Experience with Challenging Behaviour

Education

SVQ 2/3 Training

Job description

Support Worker

Full Time and Part Time roles available

Location: Dunfermline

£12.00 per hour

Due to the nature of the role and the activities the people we support like to participate in, a driver with a clean license is highly advantageous.

Start your career with Real Life Options in a rewarding role where you can really make a difference. We are looking for caring, trustworthy, and dedicated individuals to join our team. Every day is different as we promote our service users to make their own choices, achieve their goals, and live as independently as possible.

You will be able to help the people you support to live the life they want, ensuring they have choices and control over the planning and delivery of their support. You will enable them to reach their potential by providing both physical and emotional support, along with encouraging them to develop positive social relationships. You will be working with individuals both at home and within the community.

This role will involve working in supported living and day services across Dunfermline and West Fife, which consist of 11 separate properties. The individuals we support have varied levels of verbal communication, autism, and epilepsy. It would be advantageous if you have previous experience of working with adults with challenging behaviour, although this is not essential, as full training will be provided and Real Life Options will put you through the SVQ 2/3.

Working 1:1 with individuals on a 24-hour rota, you will provide support with medication administration, personal care, household tasks, leisure pursuits, social inclusion, and emotional support.

Shift patterns are generally 08:00 am - 3:00 pm and 3:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Sleepover shift - 24-hour shift: 3 pm - 3 pm (sleeping 11 pm - 7 am).

Benefits and Rewards

At Real Life Options, we treat our people with the same respect, care, and consideration that we show to the people we support. We offer:

• A minimum of 28 days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first-rate job
• An employer contributory pension scheme

In addition to the above, you also have access to the following great benefits:

• Health Cash Plan (for full/part-time contracted hours)
• £10,000 Life cover
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• A financial wellbeing scheme
• Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
• Recognition Initiatives
• Mileage paid at a flat rate of £0.35 per mile for the first 10,000 miles per year

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do. These are:

Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train, and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people, and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation, and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition, or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best, so please do let us know.

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