Support Worker

Livin Housing Limited; Uddingston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading support service provider in Uddingston is seeking a Male Support Worker to provide care for a service user with complex needs. The role requires compassion and enthusiasm, with no prior experience necessary. You will work long shifts, including sleepovers, ensuring the service user enjoys their daily activities and receives necessary personal care. This role offers job satisfaction and opportunities for career progression.

Benefits

Cost of PVG covered

Family friendly policy

Care Worker of the Month award

Refer a friend scheme

Excellent training provided

Pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Annual family fun day

Qualifications

• No previous experience or qualifications required.
• Driving license required for service users’ mobility car.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care support to the service user.
• Assist the service user with daily activities and medication.
• Engage in social activities that the service user enjoys.

Skills

Compassion

Enthusiasm

Dignity and respect

Job description

Hourly rate: £12.94

Male Support Worker

Uddingston

Hourly rate - £12.94 an hour

Overview

We are looking for a support worker to cover one 24hr shift. Shift is a long day and a sleepover. You will be required to be on shift from 9am-9pm on community hours and then 9pm until 9am on sleep hours. We are Mears Supported Living Ltd, providing a range of care and support services to people out in the community and in their own homes to enable them to stay as independent as they can. We are looking for a reliable, fun and empathetic support worker to join our team based in Birkenshaw area, for a specific service user living in his own home. The service user has complex mental health needs, communication needs and learning needs.

• Household tasks & maintenance of tenancy

• Personal care support

• Assistance with medication

• Preparation and serving nutritious meals

• Social supports of service users choice

• Supporting to arranged appointments

About the Role

Our main priority is to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes that match our own! We’re seeking to recruit some great new support workers; people with the right values and behaviours to work in our care service – could this be you?

You don’t need to have previous experience in this field, nor do you need qualifications – we’re happy to work with you to help you become an excellent care worker. Above all we want someone that shares in our values. These are:

• a commitment to quality and being the best we can

• treating the people we support with compassion

• showing dignity and respect to the people we will be working with

• having trust and respect for all members of our team.

What will be required

• This is 24/7 service. Shifts are long day sleepovers. Staff will be required to be on shift from 9am-9pm on community hours and then 9pm until 9am on sleep hours.

• You will be required to work every second weekend

• Driving license required for service users’ mobility car

• Male staff only and this is at service users’ choice

Activities enjoyed

• M&D’s is a particular favourite of the service user. He loves any theme park or carnival and tends to go here on a few occasions each week. Particularly the Halloween events & Christmas events

• Go Karting and virtual reality

• Being out in his car for a drive

• Occasionally enjoys going for a sunbed

• Enjoys spending time on his computer playing specific games and finding out if there are any carnivals to attend.

About Them

The service user is 27, he had Ataxic Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disability and Autism spectrum Disorder. The individual can display challenging behaviour when triggered due to the complexities of his mental health, this may show signs of apprehension and/ or aggression. Strategies are in place such as PRN protocol to ensure both staff and service user are safe. There is significant input from the learning disability team, family and social work to ensure staff are supported with challenges faced. Service user is mobile, however does utilize his wheelchair when out in the community for social supports. Service user is nonverbal, however communicates effectively using assistive technology. Behaviours that challenge training will be given to new staff as well as shadowing shifts with experienced staff already in the support team.

What can you expect

• Day trips out

• Supporting with hobbies and activities

• Social trips

• Supporting with daily chores

• Management of behaviour which challenges in accordance with proactive and reactive strategies.

Being a Support Worker for Mears is enabling a service user to stay in their own home.

We can offer you job fulfilment and satisfaction, career progression and a great team to work for!

Benefits

• Cost of PVG covered

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.

• Care Worker of the Month financial award

• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)

• Excellent training

• Pension scheme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Share saver scheme

• Eye test vouchers

• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)

• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch

• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

• 20K free life cover

Role Criteria

• Enthusiasm

• Passion

• Compassion

• The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users

Accessibility and inclusivity

• Service user currently resides within a ground floor flat within the Birkenshaw area of Uddingston. There are no stairs within the vicinity.

• Service user’s home is fully equipped with bathroom facilities as well as onsite parking for workers’ cars whilst on a scheduled shift.

Apply

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:

Vickie Rudge ([e-mail])

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

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