Weekend Support Worker

Active Care Group Recruitment; Hastings; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading provider of complex care is seeking male Support Workers to assist a 15-year-old boy with autism and challenging behaviour in Hastings. This bank role involves working weekends, providing personal care, and engaging in community activities. Full training and support are included, with a pay rate of up to £13 per hour.

Benefits

Full specialist training and shadow shifts

Accrued holiday pay

Flexible zero hours contract

Access to the Active Learning Hub for training

Nest Personal Pension account

Refer a Friend Scheme with rewards

Qualifications

• Ideal candidates will have experience with challenging behaviour.
• Full training will be provided.
• Ongoing support will be available.

Responsibilities

• Support the client at home and in the community during weekends.
• Assist with medication and personal care tasks.
• Manage challenging behaviour and build rapport with the client.

Skills

Bubbly enthusiastic personality

Passion for working with young people

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility & reliability

Good communication skills

Job description

Please note that for genuine occupational requirements we require male support workers for this client.

Are you looking for a bank position, for occassional weekends?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting a 15 year old boy in his family home and out in the community?

Come and join one of the UK's largest providers of complex care.

Within the Care in the Home division, we support children and young people with additional health needs to live at home with their families.

We'd like you to join us as a Support Worker to support our brand new client at his family home in St Leonards area of Hastings.

Meet the client:

Our client is a 15 year old teenage boy who has autism and challenging behaviour. We are looking for outgoing, bubbly, enthusiastic and spontaneous support workers to take him out and about as he likes to go on adventures.

When you'll be working:

• This is bank cover, to cover for the regular Support Workers
• Weekends only - Saturdays & Sundays
• Day shifts (10 hours)
• Bank cover

What you'll be doing:

This role is to support a 15 year old teenage boy with additional health needs in his family home and out in the community at the weekends. This will involve supporting him with medication, personal care, managing challenging behaviour and building a good rapport in your communications with him. You will also take him out and about on adventures.

All shifts will be double ups, so there will always be two support workers on shift together.

Ideal candidates will have experience with challenging behaviour.

Full training, shadow shifts and ongoing support will be provided.

What you'll have:

• Bubbly enthusiastic personality
• Passion for working with young people
• Kind and caring nature
• Flexibility & reliability
• Good communication skills

What to look forward to:

• Up to £13 per hour (depending on experience)
• Full specialist training, shadow shifts, and ongoing support from the Clinical Care Manager provided
• Accrued holiday pay
• Regular consistent work with rolling rotas
• Flexible zero hours contract
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1,500 by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

Active Care Group are an equal opportunities employer however for genuine occupational requirements we require male support workers for this client.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability confident employer.