Support Worker - Enablement New Forest

The YOU Trust; New Forest; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Enhanced annual leave

Matched pension scheme

Death in service benefit

Training & apprenticeships

Employee assistance programme

Equipment & uniform provided

Discounts

Job summary

The YOU Trust is seeking a dedicated Support Worker to enable and empower clients in the New Forest area. You will travel across Hampshire to provide person-centred support in home and community settings, helping people learn new skills and access activities.

A driver’s licence and car are essential, with shifts including evenings and weekends as needed. We offer competitive pay, enhanced leave, pension contributions and extensive training.

Qualifications

• Car driver with access to a vehicle and business insurance.
• Willing to travel to work across Hampshire when required.
• Experience of working with vulnerable people.
• Understand and promote independence.
• Good communication skills: verbal, non verbal, and written.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent, flexible, person-centred support across Hampshire in line with YOU’s values.
• Deliver time-limited enablement to help someone learn a new skill in their home or community.
• Provide community-based support to access volunteering, activities and social opportunities.
• Assist with personal care, budgeting, housing support and daily living activities as required.

Skills

Car driver

Flexible

Experience with vulnerable people

Communication skills

Promoting independence

Job description

Support Worker - Enablement New Forest

Covering The New Forest

Salary: £26,768pa FTE (salary will be pro-rated for Part Time)

Mileage paid at 45p per mile up to 10,000 miles and paid at 25p per mile thereafter as per HMRC guidelines

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time and Part Time Hours can be considered

Closing Date: The first suitable applicants will be appointed

PLEASE NOTE: WE DO NOT OFFER SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE

Must have a driving license and access to a car for work use

YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Somerset and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives. We also maintain an in-house pool of sessional workers, which we refer to as the ‘Premier Crew’.

Essential Criteria:

The ideal Support Partner will:

• Car Driver with access to a vehicle for work, business insurance and be prepared to travel to work across Hampshire when required.
• Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays according to the needs of those we work with.
• Experience of working with vulnerable people
• Understand and promoting independence
• Understand the needs of vulnerable people/people with a learning disability
• Good communication skills: verbal, non verbal, and written

The Role

The role of the Support Partner is to provide excellent and flexible person centred support across Hampshire in line with YOU’s values at all times. The role is multi-faceted role and includes time limited enablement support to help someone learn a new skill in their own home or the community; community based support where small groups of people will be supported to access volunteering, occupational, social and leisure activities; homecare where individuals could be supported with personal care, housing support, budgeting, social and daily living activities and emotional support.

About You

Our clients want:

• Someone who listens carefully to make sure you understand what matters to them
• A person who is trustworthy and reliable and always does what they say they will when they say they will
• A Support Partner who is flexible and will adapt how they work to meet what we agree to do together
• Someone who is aware of how they come across, and committed to making our support time together happy, friendly and enjoyable
• A person who is chatty, polite, and clear in their communication to make sure that I can understand you
• A Support Partner who is caring, respects my choices, and is helpful and fair in all that we do together
• A person who shares their sense of fun and humour and makes our time together enjoyable

YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.

Our Benefits

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

• Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.
• Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
• Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
• Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.
• Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network.

We are also recruiting to our Bank of Sessional Support Workers called Premier Crew, who are skilled and passionate about working with vulnerable people and accept shifts on a flexible basis to help up cover shifts. If this is something you are interested in please contact us.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.

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