Larksfield Supported Living is based in the town of Wisbech and supports adults with a learning disability and/or physical disability.
The role of Support Worker is to enable adults with a disability to live as independently as possible and to enjoy lifestyles as close to those enjoyed by other members of the community. We support and empower individuals to enhance the quality of their life, maximise potential and to continue to promote and develop independence skills within their home.
This role provides waking night cover to ensure tenants' care and support needs are met during the hours of 10pm-8am. As this role is part time, it does not meet the salary requirements to offer sponsorship.
What will you be doing?
You will report to the Senior Support Worker and will be joining a small team who provide practical support to our tenants. Due to the nature of this role, the post holder will often be lone working and will not readily have support and/or supervision available. You will therefore need to be able to respond immediately to crisis situations or instances of challenging behaviour whilst in the community or in the accommodation setting by assessing the situation as it arises and the consequent level of risk to the service user and others. This includes supporting with personal care where needed, cleaning, and ensuring service user safety during the night. The role will involve the administration of medication.
You will be using IT to update documents such as support plans and risk assessments and will have a good working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and assessments of capacity.
Our shifts are on a 4-week rota which could be subject to change to meet service need. These will be during the week, at weekends and/or Bank Holidays. You will be required to work every other weekend. Additional enhancements are paid for weekends and Bank Holidays.
The starting pay for the posts is £16.30 per hour (including our night rate enhancement). This is increased to £24.45 per hour for Saturday hours and £29.02 for Sunday hours.
You will be completing a comprehensive training program and benefit from excellent career development opportunities as well as being part of a supportive team committed to delivering an excellent service for adults with disabilities.
About you
You will need to have a proficient level of written and spoken English for the purposes of case recording and to enable you to work towards a qualification in Health and Social Care if you do not already hold this qualification.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as IT skills are also required. It is also essential that you can demonstrate awareness and understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion, the Mental Capacity Act and the need for safety and confidentiality in the role.
Benefits
* A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
* Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
* Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
* Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
* Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
* Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
* Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
* Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
* An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs.
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