Support Worker
Salary: £12.21 per hour
38.5 hours per week
Immediate interviews available!
We are looking for people to join our small friendly and welcoming team in Bidford-on-Avon, where you will have the opportunity to enhance people’s lives. We deliver creative, dynamic and person centred services providing a range of individualised support to people living in shared supported living.
You will be supporting 4 people with Learning Disabilities in their own home, where you will support them to be empowered in making their own decisions and choices about their everyday lives that are person centred to them, this can include: - choosing, preparing and cooking meals, personal care, medication administration, budgeting guidance and domestic tasks.
You will support with finding new interests, getting out and about during the day to catch up with friends, getting on the bus into town for a bite to eat or visiting clubs and days centres. Choosing and going on holiday, food shopping, liaising with their families and professionals, such as GP’s, Dentists and Opticians are a valued part of the lives of the individuals we support.
You’ll have a really rewarding role working with a great team of people and the chance to make a real difference to other people’s lives. We will support you along your career path to learn, develop and grow.
Real Life Options offers flexible employment opportunities including days, evenings, weekends and sleepovers.
Use of your own vehicle would be an advantage but not essential as we encourage the people we support to use public transport.
Previous experience is desirable for this position although full training will be provided.
An enhanced adult DBS will be required for this role.
Benefits and Rewards
- A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
- Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
- An employer contributory pension scheme
In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:
- Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
- £10,000 Life cover
- A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
- A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- A financial wellbeing scheme
- Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
- Recognition Initiatives
We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:
Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence
If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:
Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values – Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive
Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.
Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know
