Support Worker (Driver)

Creative Support; Stockport; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Probationary bonus

Pension contributions

28 days Annual Leave

Company paid enhanced DBS

Job summary

Creative Support in Stockport, Greater Manchester, is seeking warm, reliable and proactive Support Workers (full-time/part-time) to join our learning disabilities supported living services. You will provide respectful personal care and assistance with daily living tasks at home and in the community.

Sleep-ins are part of the role, and a full UK driving licence is essential to support our service users across shifts.

Qualifications

• Experience providing personal care and daily living assistance.
• Willing to work sleep-ins and varied shifts.
• Hold a UK driving licence.
• Eligible to work in the UK (UK visa restrictions do not apply).

Responsibilities

• Provide respectful personal care and support with daily living tasks.
• Support service users in community activities.
• Build trusting relationships with people supported and their families.
• Cover 7-day rota with sleep-ins where required.

Skills

Personal care

Driving licence

Daily living tasks

Education

QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care

Job description

£13.45 per hour Stockport, Greater Manchester Full-Time/Part-Time

We are seeking warm, reliable and proactive full and part time Support Workers for our learning disabilities supported living services in Stockport. We provide person-centred care to enable people with a learning disability to enjoy active and fulfilled lives.

You will support service users by providing respectful personal care and support with daily living tasks at home and varied activities in the community. Some of the people we support have health or behaviour support needs and will need your skilled support to maintain their health and wellbeing.

You will be expected to use personalised communication approaches and to develop trusting relationships with the people we support and their families.

In most of our services you will undertake sleep-ins. You must be willing to cover various shift patterns (early and late shifts), depending on the needs of the people we support, across a 7-day rota. In most of our services you will also undertake sleep-ins for which we pay an additional sleep-in allowance.

We provide all of your training as you begin your new career in care, including the opportunity to work towards earning your QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care. All employees have access to our training system where, through a combination of in person and e-learning courses, you can learn the skills required to develop in your role and progress toward senior roles.

Possession of a full UK driving licence is essential for this role.

Vacancy Reference Number: 97032

Benefits of working with Creative Support include:

• probationary bonus
• pension contributions
• 28 days Annual Leave
• company paid enhanced DBS

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received an Investors in People Gold award.

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.