Exciting New Opportunity – Support Worker Central Durham 16 hours per week
Are you caring, compassionate, friendly and want to make a real difference to a young persons’ life? PCP are recruiting a Support Worker to provide personal assistance for a young autistic man who has recently become visually impaired.
Duties include:
· Accessing the community, helping with guiding and being a chaperone (training will be provided)
· Socialisation including support to access coffee shops and other activities such as drum lessons and potentially community learning courses.
· Improving health and wellbeing attending the gym, going for walks etc
· Relearning how to do everyday tasks, e.g. shopping, basic cooking and other domestic chores.
The ideal candidate will have experience in a similar support role and have access to a vehicle for business use. Having an interest in similar topics i.e. Drumming, Gaming, Gym, Music, Japanese culture would be advantageous but is not essential.
An enhanced DBS will be required for this role.
If you are passionate about helping people with disabilities to overcome barriers and feel you could support someone to thrive, we’d love to hear from you.
To book an informal discussion with Gayle Goldsmith, Gayle.goldsmith@pcp.uk.net
Closing date for applications is: Sunday 26th January 2025 at midnight.
Please note we do not accept CV's as part of the recruitment process. Please visit our website and download an application pack and return completed application forms to hr@pcp.uk.net.
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