Support Worker - Shefford, Bedfordshire

HF Trust; Shefford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading support services organization in Shefford is seeking a Learning Disability Support Worker to help learning disabled adults achieve their life goals. The role offers flexible hours, comprehensive training, and a supportive working environment. Responsibilities include providing personal care, encouraging participation in daily activities, and fostering client independence. Candidates must demonstrate compassion and the ability to work varied shifts. Competitive hourly pay and generous holiday allowance provided.

Benefits

Generous Holidays: 33 days of annual leave including bank holidays

Pay incentives: overtime and holiday allowances

Fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care

Health, retail, and cash incentives

Qualifications

• Experience in providing personal care and support to learning disabled adults.
• Ability to support individuals in achieving their life goals and maintaining important relationships.
• Strong communication skills and a caring attitude.

Responsibilities

• Support clients in planning daily activities and managing personal care.
• Build clients' confidence in various life skills and new interests.
• Work flexible shifts to balance work and home life.

Job description

We’re recruiting! Join us as a Learning Disability Support Worker and help build a future where learning disabled people live the best life possible.

We know that life can be complicated for everybody. But some of us are stopped from working towards our dreams. Many learning disabled people won’t be heard about the support they’d like. Some won’t get to decide what they do for work. Or how to spend or save their money. Many won't get to try out the new hobbies they’d love to try.

But you can change all that.

Join our growing team in Shefford, and get all the training you need to become a confident Support Worker.

Do you feel like our values - Kind, Diverse, Positive and Visionary - are a good match to your values? Then we’ve got lots in common already. Come on board and support learning disabled adults with those very values to develop skills, achieve their life goals and thrive in your community.

What we offer you

• Where you’ll be working: Shefford (Residential)
• Your salary: £12.77 per hour
• Your working hours: 37.5 & 22.5 hrs contracts available + Casual opportunities. Working a combination of early shifts, late shifts and every other weekend and sleep ins.
• Sleep ins at the service are paid at £45.06
• Generous Holidays: 33 days of annual leave (including eight days statutory bank holidays).
• Pay incentives: 10% overtime allowance, 20% Bank Holiday allowance, 50% for key dates over Christmas.
• Training & development: Earn money while you get a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care.
• Lots of benefits: Health, retail and cash incentives to use how you want.

What you’ll be doing

Every day is different. You may be supporting someone to plan their weekly shop, to going on an outdoor adventure. Providing everyday personal care to supporting someone to go to their favourite gig. You could be building someone’s confidence in using public transport to teaching money management skills. What’s important is supporting people to discover new interests, achieve new goals and maintain important relationships with their family and friends.

You’ll provide the highest possible standard of care and support for learning disabled adults. Listening to their wants and needs, enabling people to do daily tasks such as taking medication, cooking a meal or working with them to build their confidence and take on new adventures they are longing for. All this while working a variety of shifts to support your work and home life balance.

We can’t wait to meet you at our Shefford services!

Find your place with us and change lives.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.

Hft's usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.