Male Support Worker
Bathgate
15.5 hours per week
£12.60 per hour
The Role Our Support Workers provide a person centred approach in providing quality support, which makes our service very flexible and adaptable to everyone's needs.
The role of a Support Worker is integral to the quality of support provision and can be rewarding and inspiring. You will support people to identify and work towards meaningful outcomes and to participate in their community and develop new and maintain existing relationships.
This role will involve supporting a gentleman, offering care and support around food shopping, meal preparation and promoting a healthy well-balanced diet. He will also require support with aspects of personal care, accessing the community and social inclusion. The ideal candidate would be reliable, positive, upbeat and able to build rapport with the gentleman.
You may be asked to work between other services that we provide care and support to across West Lothian.
An enhanced Adult PVG is required for this role.
Shift Pattern:
5 days a week Monday-Friday (usually between the hours of 10:00am-3:00pm)
Mon: 2hrs, Tues: 5hrs, Wed: 2hrs, Thurs: 5hrs and Friday: 1.5hrs.
Please note we would still require a degree flexibility from candidates as this may be moved around to deliver person centered care and support to best serve the individual.
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
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.