Support Worker
Salary: £11.44 per hour
Immediate interviews available!
Real Life Options have opened a new Supported Living service in Swadlincote to provide support to people with autism, learning disabilities, and Complex needs. We will provide individualised support packages and promote independence to enable people to live a happy fulfilled life within their own homes. The purpose-built accommodation is made of individual apartments.
The service comprises of 14 apartments for people with mild learning disabilities, and 4 apartments for people with higher complex needs.
The role
You will be supporting individuals in their own homes to live as independently as possible. This involves, following daily planners, helping with financial expenditure, domestic support and administration of medication, there may be some support with personal care and meal planning/preparation, maintaining important relationships and support to find new friendships.
A rewarding part of the role will be encouraging participation in activities in the local community to enhance social inclusion. Seeking new opportunities for the growth and development of the people we support which could include volunteering roles and further education access.
Shift patterns are generally:
Working on a rota, you will be required to work weekends, evenings, bank holidays and nights with planned time off.
7am to 2pm and 8am to 3pm
2pm to 9pm and 3pm to 10pm
9pm to 7am and 10pm to 7pm (Waking Nights)
We have full time and part time positions available.
You must be able to work over 26 hours per week and due to shift patterns
An Enhanced DBS will be required for this role.
Benefits and Rewards
At Real Life Options we treat our people with the same respect, care and consideration that we show to the people we support. Not only do we provide competitive rates of pay, a great place to work and great job satisfaction, our additional benefits include:
Benefits and Rewards
A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
An employer contributory pension scheme
In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:
Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
£10,000 Life cover
A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
Cycle to Work Scheme
A financial wellbeing scheme
Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
Recognition Initiatives
We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:
Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence
If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:
Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values – Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive
Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.
Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.
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