Life Practitioner
| Posting date: | 03 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £11.44 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | Lincoln, Midlands, LN3 5AL |
| Company: | Kisimul Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 52457658 |
Summary
About The Role
Life Practitioner – £11.44ph
At Kisimul we know caring is not just a skill, it's much more, it's a gift, your personal gift that you willingly give and share with others. Know what we mean? Then we’re on the look-out for amazing carers like you.
Kisimul provide exceptional services for children with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs, through our registered schools, college and care homes in Lincolnshire.
Apply to be a Support Worker and join our amazing team at The Old Vicarage today, we’ll encourage you to:
Be Yourself - bringing 100% of you to work everyday.
We’ll Grow Together – developing professional skills, pay and qualifications.
Supporting you to Think Forward - to create an exciting and rewarding career for your future.
About the Role.
As a Support Worker/ Life Practitioner you’ll be an integral part of the team, teaching young people life skills in context and support them to integrate these skills. We’ll give you all the training you’ll need. You’ll contribute to and promote the development of young peoples’ communication, self-help, and independence skills - undertaking actions devised by other specialist colleagues, such as speech therapists and educational psychologists and providing feedback on sessions. Plus, support individuals with maintaining and improving their health and supporting emotional needs, always promoting increased independence. Support Workers participate in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational activities such as trips to the Safari Park, fun fairs or local restaurants.
Our new care model is ground breaking.
Meaningful life is our innovative new model – an industry first. Providing care and education to people we support is at the centre of all our decision making, with the ambition to enable them to fulfil their most meaningful life. We bring all our specialist teams together from education, therapies and care and put the people we support right in the centre of our family of experts to deliver a meaningful life.
About You.
If you have a background in care work, great, we’ll work with you to develop you to where you want to get to, however, you don’t need a background in care to become a Support Worker, just a caring approach and passion for helping others.
We offer flexible hours to suit your family life.
Days - 43.5hrs per week. 7.30am and finishing at 8.30pm (1 hour break).
The rota pattern is typically a 2-week rota. Week 1 works Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat and Sun. Week 2 works, Wed and Thu.
Choose your career pathways and we’ll help build your skills to get you there.
Pay progression recognising your professional development and career progression.
Many of our senior leaders have been promoted from support roles and we’ve supported them along the way.
We’ll pay and support you to learn new skills and to pass your care diploma.
Pay transparency:
The Support Worker salary starts at £11.22 ph and can increase to £12.80 ph depending on your experience and development.
We also offer enhanced hourly rates on additional hours, for those who choose to work overtime.
Benefits
- Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades [find out more here –Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care]
- Fully funded qualifications – Diploma Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care
- Blue Light card which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
- Care Friends – earn additional money just by sharing our job adverts with your friends
- WageStream, a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses
- Unlimited access to Health Assured for yourself and partner, for support with physical & mental health, legal advice and a whole host of other tools
- Life Assurance
- Flexible working patterns
What is it like to work at Kisimul? Click here to hear our teams talking about life at Kisimul: https://youtu.be/pP-sFmzkR88
Find out more about Meaningful Life Model: https://youtu.be/XWo2VXzeGIg
Ready to do 100% you. Then apply today and begin a new journey.
Want more info? Watch this short video to find out what it’s like to be a Support Worker at Kisimul: https://tinyurl.com/52ysryv7
Life Practitioner – £11.44ph
At Kisimul we know caring is not just a skill, it's much more, it's a gift, your personal gift that you willingly give and share with others. Know what we mean? Then we’re on the look-out for amazing carers like you.
Kisimul provide exceptional services for children with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs, through our registered schools, college and care homes in Lincolnshire.
Apply to be a Support Worker and join our amazing team at The Old Vicarage today, we’ll encourage you to:
Be Yourself - bringing 100% of you to work everyday.
We’ll Grow Together – developing professional skills, pay and qualifications.
Supporting you to Think Forward - to create an exciting and rewarding career for your future.
About the Role.
As a Support Worker/ Life Practitioner you’ll be an integral part of the team, teaching young people life skills in context and support them to integrate these skills. We’ll give you all the training you’ll need. You’ll contribute to and promote the development of young peoples’ communication, self-help, and independence skills - undertaking actions devised by other specialist colleagues, such as speech therapists and educational psychologists and providing feedback on sessions. Plus, support individuals with maintaining and improving their health and supporting emotional needs, always promoting increased independence. Support Workers participate in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational activities such as trips to the Safari Park, fun fairs or local restaurants.
Our new care model is ground breaking.
Meaningful life is our innovative new model – an industry first. Providing care and education to people we support is at the centre of all our decision making, with the ambition to enable them to fulfil their most meaningful life. We bring all our specialist teams together from education, therapies and care and put the people we support right in the centre of our family of experts to deliver a meaningful life.
About You.
If you have a background in care work, great, we’ll work with you to develop you to where you want to get to, however, you don’t need a background in care to become a Support Worker, just a caring approach and passion for helping others.
We offer flexible hours to suit your family life.
Days - 43.5hrs per week. 7.30am and finishing at 8.30pm (1 hour break).
The rota pattern is typically a 2-week rota. Week 1 works Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat and Sun. Week 2 works, Wed and Thu.
Choose your career pathways and we’ll help build your skills to get you there.
Pay progression recognising your professional development and career progression.
Many of our senior leaders have been promoted from support roles and we’ve supported them along the way.
We’ll pay and support you to learn new skills and to pass your care diploma.
Pay transparency:
The Support Worker salary starts at £11.22 ph and can increase to £12.80 ph depending on your experience and development.
We also offer enhanced hourly rates on additional hours, for those who choose to work overtime.
Benefits
- Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades [find out more here –Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care]
- Fully funded qualifications – Diploma Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care
- Blue Light card which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
- Care Friends – earn additional money just by sharing our job adverts with your friends
- WageStream, a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses
- Unlimited access to Health Assured for yourself and partner, for support with physical & mental health, legal advice and a whole host of other tools
- Life Assurance
- Flexible working patterns
What is it like to work at Kisimul? Click here to hear our teams talking about life at Kisimul: https://youtu.be/pP-sFmzkR88
Find out more about Meaningful Life Model: https://youtu.be/XWo2VXzeGIg
Ready to do 100% you. Then apply today and begin a new journey.
Want more info? Watch this short video to find out what it’s like to be a Support Worker at Kisimul: https://tinyurl.com/52ysryv7