Support Worker
| Posting date: | 23 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,770 per annum plus pension & excellent benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2024 |
| Location: | Lancaster, LA1 5EF |
| Company: | Langley House Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | d7403038-232d-4e30-8cb7-a50ea2076a98 |
Summary
Are you an experienced Support Worker who would like to work for a values led organisation?
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Support Worker with good initiative and great communication skills to join our busy and friendly team in Lancaster.
You will support Clients to achieve the outcomes laid out in their Care/Support Plan and also ensure that the security of the project and its surroundings is maintained. Your professional and flexible nature will allow you to positively impact on those who you support and the rest of the team around you, allowing you to flourish and develop in this diverse and rewarding role.
At Langley we believe in equipping our staff to be the best they can be. That means providing excellent support and free training to enable you to make a rewarding difference to people’s lives every day. We have a great opportunity available for a Support Worker based in Lancaster on a permanent basis, working 40 hours per week.
The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary of £24,770 per annum as well as other generous benefits which include:
- Generous annual leave up to 30 days plus bank holidays
- Fantastic pension scheme, matched up to 8%
- Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
- Fully funded DBS and renewals
- Company sick pay scheme
- ‘Smart Health’, which includes unlimited access to online, telephone and video GP
- Access to private holiday flat in Torquay
- Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme includes free counselling and legal advice
- Eyecare & Flu vouchers
- Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Key work and support clients generally within your project
- Provide personal care to identified clients
- Take an active role in the assessment and management of risk
- Maintain a clear and calm manner whilst managing client risk
- Ensure that all medication within the project is managed in line with Trust policy and procedures
- Manage client meetings and facilitate the Client Inclusion and Training representatives
- Assist in the management of the referral process within the project to achieve agreed occupancy levels
- Apply Emergency First Aid response to clients and any other person in the building/grounds
For the full job description, please copy and paste the following link into your browser https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HndViXDJ6sVeyrMrJI4FqBOLDBrMpQ_N/view?usp=drive_link
Our service in Lancaster is a Registered Care home with an experienced team who are able to care for and transform the lives of clients with a range of needs and interests. You would be supported by the management team at the project and have an appropriate induction so you can feel confident in adjusting to a new role, which will include shadowing staff.
If you want to join our team as a Support Worker, please apply now as we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: 16th May 2024
We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.
Please note that a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check is required for this role and that job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.
About LANGLEY
Langley is an innovative Christian charity that provides specialist housing, care and support services in the community, and targeted advice in prisons, for people seeking to live crime-free. With one of the lowest reconvictions rates in the country – under 3% whilst people are in our housing and care – we are changing lives and making communities safer across the country.
We're proud to be accredited as an ‘Investors in People: Gold’ employer, which celebrates the way we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic. This is the third time we have been awarded Investors in People’s Gold standard.
If you would like to hear more from our staff and clients, please take a few minutes to watch the following video clips (3 minutes each).
Who Are We: https://youtu.be/NjUbE9UVDdY (please copy and paste this into your browser)
Kevin’s Story: https://youtu.be/iYPY4aHgYsA (please copy and paste this into your browser)
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
ED&I is integral to Langley House Trust. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
DISABILITY CONFIDENT
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.