Support Worker Full-time

MacIntyre; St Albans; On-site; Full time

Job summary

MacIntyre is seeking compassionate individuals for the Support Worker role to assist adults with disabilities. The position offers full-time or part-time hours, flexible shifts, and ongoing training. No prior experience is necessary; just a passion for making a positive impact.

Benefits

Six weeks' annual leave including holidays

Workplace Pension scheme

Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)

Health Cash Plan for core treatments

MacIntyre Sick Pay

Life assurance scheme

MacIntyre Rewards Scheme

Discounts with leading retailers

Enhanced DBS Certificate funded by MacIntyre

Qualifications

• No experience required; passion for making a positive impact is essential.
• Personal connection to autism or learning disabilities is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support adults with learning and physical disabilities by engaging them in activities.
• Build meaningful connections through everyday moments like sharing meals and helping people achieve their goals.

Skills

Empathy

Compassion

Teamwork

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Job Description

• Full-time and part-time roles available (up to 37.5 hours per week)
• Shifts on a rota basis, including days, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays
• Ongoing training and support from our dedicated team
  
  

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Job reference: 004781

Salary: £12.30 ph

Closing date: 04/07/2025

Location: St Albans

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Job Description

Support Worker – Make a Difference at MacIntyre!

Position Details

• Full-time and part-time roles available (up to 37.5 hours per week)
• Shifts on a rota basis, including days, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays
• Ongoing training and support from our dedicated team
  
  

At MacIntyre, we’re looking for compassionate individuals to join our team and support adults with multiple learning and physical disabilities to live their best lives. If you have a personal connection to these needs—whether through family or experience—we’d love for you to bring your understanding and empathy to our team.

As a Support Worker, you’ll help the people we support enjoy activities like swimming with *Sarah, *Michael loves arts and crafts, dining out, and outings in a group or one-to-one with people like *John or *Emma. You’ll build meaningful connections through everyday moments like sharing meals and helping people achieve their goals.

Who is this role for?

No experience is required—what’s important is your passion for making a positive impact. If you have a personal connection to autism or learning disabilities, this could be a great fit. We’ll provide full training and work with you to create flexible shift patterns.

At MacIntyre, we believe in creating a world where everyone is treated with dignity, kindness, and respect. Join us, and help us make every day meaningful for the people we support!

"Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorships as we await further guidance from the Home Office. Applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered at this time. We appreciate your understanding."

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About You

Of course we welcome you if you've been a care assistant or support worker, but experience isn’t necessary. If you share our values, are warm, friendly and willing to learn, you’re likely to be a great fit.

Swimming is not essential but you will need to be prepared to get into the pool to assist.

We’re 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 UK manual or automatic driving licence.

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.

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)
  
  

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, call usand 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.

MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked “Accessibility” at the top of the screen.

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