Support Worker - Supported Living

STYLE ACRE; Wantage; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave (including bank)

Sleep-ins £68 per night

Company Pension Scheme - 5% Employer

Flexible working hours

Leadership Development Programme

Perkbox benefits

Recommend a friend incentive

Wellness programs

Company events & social hours

Loan to learn to drive

Job summary

Style Acre in Wantage is seeking a compassionate Support Worker to help people live healthy, happy and independent lives. You’ll assist with personal care, meals, shopping and household tasks, and join in a wide range of activities from music and cinema to days out and holidays, ensuring every participant has varied and engaging experiences.

Lunch and dinner are provided on shift. We value a caring, respectful, honest, ambitious and collaborative approach.

Qualifications

• Background in care or working with people with additional needs is welcomed.
• Positive, can-do, professional attitude.
• Reliable and flexible and able to do sleep overs.
• A valid UK Driving Licence.

Responsibilities

• Assist individuals with personal care, meals, shopping and household tasks.
• Support participation in activities from music to cinema trips and days out.
• Contribute to a varied, safe and enjoyable daily routine for service users.

Skills

Care attitude

Reliable & flexible

UK Driving Licence

Job description

Role: Support Worker

Salary: £24,870 - £26,372FTE

Hours:Part time and full time roles available - minimum of 14 hours

About Style Acre

Are you looking for a job that has purpose, something that makes you feel like you are making a difference?

We are looking for incredible, caring and patient people to join our brilliant team and make a difference to the lives of people we support. Helping them to live healthy, happy, and independent lives. (We do not offer Sponsorship)

About Our Service

Working at our Wheatley service is busy and upbeat!We like caring and chatty individuals who like to spend time singing, dancing and being creative with us, getting involved in all activities.Having fun, being kind and getting to know us well is important to us all.

What to Expect

Joining us as a Support Worker, you’ll help individuals with varying levels of personal care, as well as eating and drinking, shopping, household tasks; but perhaps most importantly, fun and fulfilling activities. From music to cinema and theatre trips, to even going on days out and holidays, you’ll make sure everyone has varied and exciting experiences — and you’ll get to join in! (Lunch & Dinner provided while on shift)

Our values are important to us, and our Support Workers play a vital role in our service users’ lives, so it is of the utmost importance that you live and breathe our values: Caring – Respectful – Honest – Ambitious – Collaborative

We offer a wide range of benefits

• 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays) for full-time staff (pro-rata for part time)
• £68 per night for sleep-ins. (Breakfast included)
• Company Pension Scheme - 5% Employer Pension Contribution
• Flexible working hours
• Free comprehensive ongoing training, including a unique Leadership Development Programme with the ability to progress to Assistant Support Manager within 18 months.
• Employee benefits package with Perkbox (saving you up to £800 per year)
• Recommend a friend incentive scheme for employees
• Wellness programs
• Company events & social hours
• Opportunity for a loan to learn to drive

What you will need:

• Ideally, you’ll have a background in care or working with people with specific additional requirements, but we’re more interested in hearing from people who really want to make a difference to people’s lives. We provide full training and an induction to all staff.
• A positive, can-do, and professional attitude
• You will be encouraging but patient and be able to work fast paced and well as a team.
• To be reliable and flexible and able to do sleep overs
• A valid UK Driving Licence