Support Worker - Full UK drivers license holder
Role Description
Please note: If you require a Visa to work in the UK, SeeAbility is currently unable to support any sponsorship requests.
* Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
* Salary: £12 per hour plus benefits: paid induction, overtime paid over 37.5 contracted hours
* Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Sunday on a shift rota basis
* Shift Patterns: 7.00 am – 3.00 pm, 8.00 am – 4.00 pm, 1:00 pm– 9.00 pm, 2:00 pm– 10:00 pm
* Employment Type: Full time, Permanent
You must hold a full UK manual driving licence to apply for this role.
Do you have experience supporting and caring for people in a professional setting with a full UK drivers license? Do you have experience in hoisting and pushing a wheelchair? Do you live in the local area and have the 'Right to Work' full time in the UK? If you have answered YES to the above, you could be exactly what we are looking for. Come and be part of something extraordinary!
We are on the lookout for Support Workers who are calm, patient, and resilient. You will need to have a consistent approach to assisting the people we support who have high complex physical health needs and engage in their interests.
As a support worker, you will be part of an experienced staff team working within a busy and vibrant service where no two days are the same.
Support worker duties include:
* Daily activities such as personal care, hoisting, cooking meals, basic cleaning tasks, medication administration (after completing relevant training), food shopping with the people we support, etc.
* Providing support for offsite activities such as going to the gym, bowling, historic gardens, and any other interests and appointments.
* Going away on staycation and holiday abroad with the people we support, helping them to live their best life!
* Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people you will take care of.
* Helping the people you will assist plan towards and achieve both short and long-term aims.
* Ensuring the people you will assist and their families are treated with respect, dignity, and equality.
* To work in accordance with SeeAbility’s values.
We are looking for someone who can devote up to 37.5 hours per week and is willing to work on a shift rota basis, covering mornings, evenings, and alternate weekends.
You will work closely with the registered manager, deputy manager, and your seniors to ensure that we are delivering the best person-centred care, ensuring outstanding delivery of support in line with our vision; inclusive communities where people with dementia, autism, learning disabilities, brain injury, and physical disabilities participate as equal citizens.
As a support worker, your day-to-day management will come from an experienced, passionate leader who will work alongside you. This will assist you with your own leadership and interactions that will enable people to move forward in their lives, creating community connections, friends, hobbies, interests, and work. Being passionate, creative, and values-led will really help you in achieving the small and bigger goals and outcomes that we all see as part of a safe, happy, healthy, and empowering life.
Who will you be supporting?
At Waterside House, we support 14 individuals with various disabilities including visual impairment, autism, physical disabilities, mental health, and learning disabilities.
About us
SeeAbility is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK and has pioneered specialist support for over 225 years. We specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities or autism, who may also have sight loss.
Safer recruitment and diversity
SeeAbility safeguards and promotes the welfare of people we support. To do this, we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate vetting checks prior to joining. SeeAbility is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity, and embracing inclusion among our workforce.
Your rewards
* Leadership development academy and talent programme for the next steps in your career
* Fully paid essential training
* Funded professional qualifications – Care Certificate, QCF levels 2-5 available
* Annual excellence awards
* Long service awards and recognition
* Quarterly 1:1s: Opportunity to discuss your progress and your future
* We are a Living Wage Employer
Your work-life balance
* 28 days holiday (incl. bank holidays), increasing to 36 days with long service (1 extra day for each year of service)
* Flexible working - We are up for anything that works for your team and the wider organisation
Your wellbeing counts
* Life assurance of 2x annual salary
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.
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