Support Worker

TN United Kingdom; Shifnal; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading charity as a Support Worker in Shifnal, providing essential care for individuals with learning disabilities and autism. Enjoy a supportive work environment with flexible shifts, comprehensive training, and a range of benefits including competitive pay and discounts. Your role will involve building meaningful relationships and supporting daily activities, ensuring a fulfilling lifestyle for those you care for.

Benefits

Six weeks' annual leave

Workplace Pension scheme

Employee Assistance Plan

Health Cash Plan

Life assurance scheme

MacIntyre Rewards Scheme

Access to the Blue Light Card

Enhanced DBS Certificate

Qualifications

• No experience necessary; training provided.
• Must be a driver with a full clear driver’s license.

Responsibilities

• Support three adults with learning disabilities and autism.
• Assist with daily living skills and medical appointments.
• Provide 1:1 support through various shift patterns.

Skills

Customer Service

Teamwork

Education

Manual Full UK Driver’s License

Job description

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Is your career in care as rewarding as it could be? Are you frustrated with unrealistic schedules that leave no time for the people you support?

Why not join MacIntyre? You will work with the same people regularly and have the opportunity to build long term life changing relationships.

We are seeking Full-time & Part-time Support Workers for our support service in Shifnal near Telford. Experience is desirable but not essential; as full training will be given to those who have a passion to work within this sector. Your ability to drive unlocks the opportunities for people to do the things they really enjoy. So you must be a driver with a full clear driver’s license. Don't worry! You won't be racing between appointments.

The various shift patterns through which we provide 1:1 support are:

7am to 4pm

4pm to 10.30pm with sleep-in

9.30pm - 7am

In addition to your £12.30 an hour as base salary, you’ll have the opportunity to work sleep-ins* at £60 per night. You’ll also have the pleasure of receiving the Blue Light discount card and making savings at the checkout, along with other benefits detailed below.

Here in Shifnal, our priority is to ensure people enjoy the lifestyles they desire. The role involves supporting three adults with Learning Disabilities and Autism who enjoy living as independently as possible, maintaining or learning new daily living skills. Their favourite activities include shopping, cooking, arts and crafts, visiting National Trust sites, zoos and farms, local short and longer walks, baking and social events.

Support workers also support to attend medical appointments and may require help getting ready in the morning, having a shower and the administration of medication.

The rota patterns will include the various shifts mentioned above. (Rotas will be available 6 weeks in advance.).

*If you’re not familiar with it, for a sleep-in shift, you sleep at the person’s home overnight in the spare room, ready to wake up and provide support if someone is restless. In the Shropshire area, we pay £60 per sleep-in.

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About you

Experience isn’t always necessary to become a Support Worker (also known as Care Assistant) for MacIntyre. If you have the right attitude, good customer service skills, share our values and are willing to learn, you’re likely to be a great fit. We are looking for people who celebrate differences, and we strive to make all our staff feel included, valued and respected.

You must be a driver with a manual full UK driver’s license.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)

About us

MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.

Training and Development

At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.

But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.

How to apply

If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.

Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, you can either download one from the attachments on our website advert or phone us on 01908 357 016 and we will send an application form to you.

Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.

Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.

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