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Make a Meaningful Difference as a Relief Support Worker at Macintyre
Are you passionate about supporting people with learning disabilities and making a real difference in their lives? At Macintyre, we provide person-centred support for people with learning disabilities, and we’re looking for dedicated Relief Support Workers to join our team.
Why Join Us?
As a Relief Support Worker at Macintyre, you won’t just be clocking in and out you’ll be enriching the lives of the people who draw on our support, helping them live independently and pursue the things they love. Our flexible hours allow you to work around your life, making it the perfect opportunity if you're looking for a rewarding role on your terms.
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Supporting people at our daytime learning centre and in the community
* Taking part in fun, engaging activities from sports and arts & crafts to community events
* Helping people develop important life skills like cooking, cleaning, and budgeting
* Assisting with outings, live events, and helping people pursue hobbies that bring them joy
What We Offer:
* Flexibility: Work when it’s convenient for you whether that’s during the day, evenings, or weekends while making a positive impact.
* Training & Growth: Receive top-quality professional training and support, just like our permanent team members, with opportunities to progress into a permanent role.
* Supportive Environment: Over 95% of our staff are on permanent contracts, meaning you’ll have strong guidance, support, and career development if you decide to stay long-term.
The Hours:
* Early shifts: Monday to Friday, 7am-2pm/3pm
* Late shifts: Monday to Friday, 3pm-9pm/10pm
* Bank holidays: Early shift 8am-2pm/3pm & Late shift 3pm-9pm/10pm
* Relief Nights: 9:30pm-7:30am
Location: We are looking for applicants who live in Streatham or surrounding areas such as Croydon, Bromley, Mitcham, Tooting, and Wimbledon.
About You:
Experience isn’t always necessary. If you have the right attitude, good customer service skills, share our values and are willing to learn, you’re likely to be a great fit. We are looking for people who celebrate differences, and we strive to make all our staff feel included, valued and respected.
You must live within a reasonable distance.
About Us:
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.
We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.
Training and Development:
At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.
But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.
Pay and Rewards:
We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:
* Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
* Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
* MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
* Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
* Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
* MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
* Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
* MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
* MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
* Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
* Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)
How to Apply:
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.
Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call us and we will send an application form to you.
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.
Safer Recruitment and Diversity Statement:
MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.
MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support.
COVID-19 Information:
We will take every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process and your employment with MacIntyre. We encourage all our employees to follow Government advice and get vaccinated against COVID and flu. If you are a frontline care worker, you are on the priority list for vaccination.
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