Support Worker (Internally known as Enablement Assistant) - Wootton.

RGIT Australia; Wootton Bridge; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

PBS4 is seeking a dedicated Support Worker (Enablement Assistant) in Wootton, Isle of Wight. The role involves assisting individuals with learning disabilities, autism, mental health challenges, and physical disabilities to live fulfilling lives through person-centred support.

You will be part of a passionate team delivering flexible, empathetic care. Applicants should have proven experience, be adaptable, and embrace PBS4 values.

Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting individuals with learning disabilities, autism, mental health, or physical disabilities.
• Adaptable, empathetic, professional, compassionate and resilient.
• Ability to provide person-centred care and support personal goals.

Responsibilities

• Enable individuals to achieve their goals and access activities of their choosing.
• Celebrate achievements, big or small, with the individuals you support.
• Provide compassionate, person-centred support in day-to-day activities.

Skills

Empathy

Adaptability

Professionalism

Compassion

Resilience

Job description

Support Worker (Internally known as Enablement Assistant) - Wootton.

Full-time Permanent Associate

Description

Support Worker (Internally known as Enablement Assistant)

Location: Wootton, Isle of Wight.

Hourly Rate: £13.50

Hours Per Week: Wake nights

*Whilst PBS4 holds a sponsorship license, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to any new applicants to PBS4. We wish you all the best with your job search and future career.

About the role

We are looking for team members who have a great deal of passion in supporting people with a variety of different needs. The individuals we support have a combination of learning disabilities, autism, mental health, and/or physical disabilities, including complex health needs. We are therefore looking for team members with proven existing experience supporting individuals in one or many of these areas, who are able to adapt their support to ensure person centred care that ensures people live not only the lives they want, but the life they deserve.

The individuals we support have differing personalities, characters, interests, likes and dislikes and we are looking for team members who recognise a ‘one size fits all’ approach is not going to work. You need to be adaptable, empathetic, professional, compassionate, and resilient. Most of all you need to be fun and engaging!

We very much value experience in supporting others and warmly welcome people who share our values.

Being a Support Worker at PBS4 is not like any other role within social care! Our Support Workers Enable the People we support to achieve their goals and access activities of their choosing! It's about celebrating their achievements - regardless of how small these may seem!

Why work for us?

Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued

Have support from an experienced management and clinical team

Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support

Have training opportunities that enhance your career development

Benefits include: 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1-year anniversary with PBS4., in-house paid induction training, followed by 12 weeks blended e-learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme, earned wage access, and access to various other benefits through our enhanced Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and receive £300.00 for every successful person you refer.

About PBS4

PBS4 is a values led social care organisation, providing Neurodisability Services to individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism, Mental Health, Physical Disabilities and Complex Health Needs, and/or behaviours that may challenge. We support people living in their own homes, with their own tenancies, and we utilise Positive Behaviour Support as the framework for the support we provide.

We are a medium-sized organisation supporting people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Somerset, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of around 430 employees.

The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these! We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social care!

People with learning disabilities should have the same right to an ordinary life as anyone else. They need support from people like you to help them achieve this. If you are passionate about helping people to achieve the life they deserve and thrive of seeing others succeed, then a career with PBS4 is the career for you. We value experience in supporting others, but we warmly welcome people without experience who share our values.

We want to create new ways of working, led by passion and drive for doing what is right, and promote innovation from our teams. Join us on our mission to disrupt social care!

“Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010”

Company Overview

PBS4 provides support to enable people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour to have independent lives and to live in their own home. Our approach is underpinned by Positive Behaviour Support. Positive Behaviour Support is an approach mostly used to support people with learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge others. The goal is to shift the focus away from reducing challenging behaviour to understanding what that behaviour means and supporting people to get what they need better.