Support Worker - Llanmaes

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Wales; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local support services provider in Llanmaes is seeking a Female Support Worker to provide personalized care to individuals with learning disabilities. You will be integral in shaping a new service while enhancing the well-being of those you support. This role offers full training, competitive pay, and numerous benefits including annual leave and a health program. No prior experience is needed, but a driving license is essential.

Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities

25 days annual leave

Health and Wellbeing programme

Company pension

Referral Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• No experience required as full training is provided.
• Full driving licence is essential for transporting individuals.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with different needs in their own home.
• Provide person-centred support to enhance well-being.
• Assist with intimate personal care with respect and dignity.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Strong communication

Teamwork skills

Good written skills

Job description

As a Female Support Worker in Llanmaes, you’ll help make the everyday remarkable for the people we support.

We are dedicated to supporting those with learning disabilities to live a fulfilled and enriched life in the community, as a Support Worker, you can play a vital role in this.

Role

Location: Llanmaes, Vale of Glamorgan

Hours: We have both part time (minimum 10 hours per week) and full time hours (maximum 40 hours per week), please speak to us about the hours you are looking to do.

Your shift pattern could include weekends and sleep-ins

Salary: £12.74 per hour and our sleep-in shifts at £60 per night and our travel expenses is paid 45p per mile

Contract: Permanent

Interviews: We are looking to interview as soon as possible so would encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity. Click here to learn more about growing your career at Cartrefi Cymru.

What you’ll be doing

This is a brand-new service for Cartrefi, offering you the chance to join us at a pivotal and exciting stage.

You’ll play a key role in helping shape and build this new care and support service from the ground up.

As the service evolves, there will be plenty of opportunities for your own development and growth as we discover together what delivers the best outcomes.

You’ll be supporting four individuals in their own home, each with different needs and personalities.

This includes supporting one person who experiences OCD and another who requires some personal care.

They enjoy eating out, going to farms and gardening at the allotments.

They require minimal support but there may be some challenging behaviour involved.

Your goal is to make everyday remarkable through enhancing well-being and focusing on the small, meaningful moments that bring joy and purpose.

By offering this kind of person-centred support every day, this truly is a fun and rewarding role for the right person.

Who we are looking for

No experience required as full training is provided.

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• have patience and empathy
• can support a person with their intimate personal care with respect and dignity
• have strong communication and teamwork skills
• are able to speak on behalf of others as well as to a range of professional people
• have good written skills and the ability to record events with empathy and meaning
• have a full driving licence (essential for transporting individuals to appointments and activities)

Benefits

• Excellent training and development opportunities to achieve qualifications
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to buy and sell leave
• Benevolent Fund, confidential financial wellbeing resource available to our colleagues
• Health and Wellbeing programme - 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Refer a Friend Referral Programme
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Benefits and discount platform Eligibility for Blue Light discount card And much much more…

About Us

Our mission is to build a better future by focusing on people with learning disabilities and their families.

We strive to be a great support provider for the individuals and families that we support, our employees, our partners and funders, and the communities in which we work.

We’re a Cooperative, which means putting people at the heart of our decision making and support.

Values

We’ve made a promise to the people we support, setting out our commitments to them and how they can expect to be supported, our values include: Honesty, Trust, Kindness, Respect, Wellbeing.

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early so we would encourage you to apply early for this position.

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