Join Our Team and Make a Difference Every Day at MacIntyre At MacIntyre, we believe in the power of individual voices and creating a space where everyone feels heard, valued, and understood. We're looking for caring, compassionate individuals to join our team and help us create a welcoming environment for adults with multiple learning and physical disabilities. In this role, you ll be an integral part of enabling the people we support to enjoy their glorious ordinary lives, by fulfilling experiences. Whether it's swimming, arts and crafts, dining out, or going on outings in our mini-bus, you'll be supporting them to explore the activities that bring them joy. Sharing mealtimes and preparing delicious meals together, you ll build strong, meaningful connections through everyday moments. You ll also have the support of a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team, including registered nurses, to ensure the highest standards of care. Every day at MacIntyre is an opportunity to make a real difference. Many of the people we support have limited verbal communication, so you'll learn to tune into the subtle ways they express themselves. Your kindness and attention can light up someone's day in ways that words can't capturerewarding you with smiles, laughter, and the joy of seeing someone feel understood. Position Details: Full-time and Part-time roles available (up to 37.5 hours per week) Shifts on a rota basis, including days, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays Who is this role for? No previous experience is needed to become a Support Worker. What s most important is your passion for making a positive impact. Every day offers new chances to empower and uplift those we support, and the rewards are immeasurable. We re looking for someone who listens well, shows empathy, and is in tune with others' needs. We celebrate equality and ensure everyone feels respected and in control of their lives. With your dedication and willingness to learn, we ll provide the training and ongoing support you need to thrive. Join us at MacIntyre, where we re creating a world where everyone is valued, and together, we can make every day meaningful IND1 About you Of course we welcome you if you've been a care assistant or support worker, but experience isn t necessary. If you share our values, are warm, friendly and willing to learn, you re likely to be a great fit. Swimming is not essential but you will need to be prepared to get into the pool to assist. We re looking for people who celebrate differences, and we strive to make all our staff feel included, valued and respected. You must be a driver with a manual driving licence. About us MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism. We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone s unique gifts, talents and contributions. Training and Development At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job. But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge. Pay and Rewards We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes: Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost) MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period) Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff. Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre) How to apply If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV. Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call usand we will send an application form to you. Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today. Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining. MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked Accessibility at the top of the screen. COVID-19 Information We will take every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process and your employment with MacIntyre. We encourage all our employees to follow Government advice and get vaccinated against COVID and flu. If you are a frontline care worker, you are on the priority list for vaccination.