Support worker

Life Practitioner / Support Worker

**Subsidised travel to work available from Market Rasen and Louth**

At Kisimul we know caring is not just a skill, it's much more, it's a gift, your personal gift that you willingly give and share with others. Know what we mean? Then we’re on the look-out for amazing carers like you.

Kisimul provide exceptional services for children with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs, through our registered schools, college and care homes in Lincolnshire.

Apply to be a Support Worker and join our amazing team at Anam Cara today, we’ll encourage you to:

Be Yourself - bringing 100% of you to work everyday.

We’ll Grow Together – developing professional skills, pay and qualifications.

Supporting you to Think Forward - to create an exciting and rewarding career for your future.

About the Role.

As a Support Worker/ Life Practitioner you’ll be an integral part of the team, teaching young people life skills in context and support them to integrate these skills. We’ll give you all the training you’ll need. You’ll contribute to and promote the development of young peoples’ communication, self-help, and independence skills - undertaking actions devised by other specialist colleagues, such as speech therapists and educational psychologists and providing feedback on sessions. Plus, support individuals with maintaining and improving their health and supporting emotional needs, always promoting increased independence. Support Workers participate in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational activities such as trips to the Safari Park, fun fairs or local restaurants.

Our new care model is ground breaking.

Meaningful life is our innovative new model – an industry first. Providing care and education to people we support is at the centre of all our decision making, with the ambition to enable them to fulfil their most meaningful life. We bring all our specialist teams together from education, therapies and care and put the people we support right in the centre of our family of experts to deliver a meaningful life.

About You.

If you have a background in care work, great, we’ll work with you to develop you to where you want to get to, however, you don’t need a background in care to become a Support Worker, just a caring approach and passion for helping others.

We offer flexible hours to suit your family life.

Days - 43.5hrs per week. 7.30am and finishing at 8.30pm (1 hour break).

The rota pattern is typically a 2-week rota. Week 1 works Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat and Sun. Week 2 works, Wed and Thu.

Choose your career pathways and we’ll help build your skills to get you there.

Pay progression recognising your professional development and career progression.

Many of our senior leaders have been promoted from support roles and we’ve supported them along the way.

We’ll pay and support you to learn new skills and to pass your care diploma.

Pay transparency:

The Support Worker salary starts at £12.00 ph (Level 1) and goes up to £12.50 ph (Level 2), increasing to £13.00 ph (Level 3) depending on your experience and development. A decision will be made at interview to determine starting salary dependent on experience.

We also offer enhanced hourly rates on additional hours, for those who choose to work overtime.

Ready to do 100% you. Then apply today and begin a new journey.

About You

What experience and qualifications do you need:

• A genuine passion for care and to be motivated by contributing to the progression of others.
• A strong team player
• Resilience to keep going at difficult times and to ask for support if needed
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Computer literacy
• A Diploma Level 3 in Young People’s Workforce (or equivalent) or a willingness to complete this qualification within a fixed timeframe.

What will you get in return:

* Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades

* Fully funded qualifications – Diploma Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care

* Blue Light card - which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide

* Refer a friend - Earn upto £500 through our refer a friend scheme

* WageStream - a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses

* (email address removed) - a well being app which gives you access to unlimited GP appointments, confidentiality 24/7 mental health support and physiotherapy sessions

* Life Assurance

* Flexible working patterns

About Kisimul Group:

Kisimul Group Ltd are a group of independent specialist schools and adult provisions providing exceptional residential care and award-winning education to children, young people and adults with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, severe and complex learning difficulties, global development delay and associated challenging behaviour.

Kisimul is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Kisimul is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all

All applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check. Kisimul Group Ltd is an equal opportunities employer