Location: Wirral & Cheshire
Salary: £12.20 per hour (£12.25 ph if QCF/NVQ qualified)
Hours Per Week: 35 hours per week (Mixture of contracts available
Employment Type: Care Staff
Are you looking for a rewarding career making a real difference to people’s lives?
Autism Together is one of the country’s leading providers of services and support to autistic people and their families. It is an exciting time to be joining the charity within one of our Supported Living locations across Wirral and West Cheshire as we are looking to organically grow the team.
What you will be doing… You’ll be working with a warm, friendly team based within one of our Supported Living locations to deliver individualised care plans to the people we support, helping them to live independently within their local community. Supporting individuals within their home environment along with daily activities, appointments and personal care needs.
Join Autism Together and expect:
* Excellent rates of pay (£12.20-12.25 per hour)
* Enhanced rates for certain locations (£12.70-£12.75)
* Free DBS check
* Fully paid induction training from our award-winning Training & Development Team
* Buy back additional annual leave
* Discounts for high street stores and eligibility for Blue Light Card benefit
* Pension Scheme
* Employee Assistant Programme (EAP) and occupational health
* Early overtime pay scheme
* Annual staff awards celebrating staff achievements
* Generous refer a friend scheme
* Ongoing professional career progression
* Opportunities to obtain a professionally recognised qualification and complete an apprenticeship relevant to the role
* Attendance incentive draws
* Access to join Medicash (private health care scheme)
* Employee of the month
* Staff suggestion scheme
* Regular communications from management
* Sleep ins: Some of our locations require staff to undertake sleep-in duties. We offer an additional sleep in allowance.
* Overtime pay: Overtime is available at an additional £1.20 per hour weekdays or £2.00 per hour weekends on top of your hourly rate of pay.
* Rota: Typically over a 3 week rota and includes evening and weekend working.
Hours of work
* 7:30 am - 5 pm
* 4:30 pm - 10:30 pm
* Long days – 07:30 am – 22:00 pm on a 1 in 2 off rota pattern
* Long days – 8 am-8 pm, 9 am-9 pm on a 3 in-3 off rota pattern
We also have a range of smaller contracts, if interested these can be discussed at an interview.
Our ideal candidate will be patient, inspiring and sensitive to the needs of vulnerable people. They should have the ability to motivate others and a passion to provide high-quality support and care.
If you are passionate about a career in care and are seeking to work with a forward-thinking charity then we look forward to hearing from you!
Apply now or give our friendly Recruitment Team a call on 0151 482 3121. They will be more than happy to answer any queries you may have about this exciting role within a leading autism charity.
Please note all offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks, including a DBS check.
* Due to a high volume of applications, we may need to close this vacancy earlier than expected. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to be considered.