Support Worker

Creative Support; Salford; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Job summary

Creative Support is seeking dedicated individuals to help service users with complex learning disabilities and physical health needs live independently in their own tenancies. You will deliver person-centred support, promote choice and independence, and work as part of a Swinton-based team on a rota that includes sleep-in shifts.

We value resilience, warmth, and a supportive approach. The role involves personal care, community involvement, and coordinating with families and professionals to

Qualifications

• Demonstrates ability to provide personal care with dignity and respect.
• Supports service users to participate in the local community.
• Flexibility to work in shifts over weekends including waking nights.
• Builds warm, trusting relationships with service users and colleagues.
• Collaborates with families and professionals for coordinated care.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Personal care

Community participation

Flexible shifts

Sleep-in shifts

Re-enablement principles

Job description

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.

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

Part Time hours are to be agreed with the successful candidate.

Vacancy Reference Number: 90775

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