Support Worker
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £12.00 to £12.30 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2024 |
| Location: | Exmouth, Devon, ex8 2du |
| Company: | The Guinness Partnership |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 10082_1713787696 |
Summary
Our Support Workers are caring, respectful and dedicated to improving the lives of our customers; adults living with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and health complex needs.
We are looking for people that share our values to join our Support Worker team in Exmouth on a full time or part time basis.
Our teams provide care and support for our customers so that they can live their life, their way. We help them to achieve their aspirations and goals as well as provide everyday care and support.
You will be providing high-quality, person-centred care and support. This will include enabling our clients to do the things they want to in life such as garden centre trips, beach walks, sports activities, or trips into town for a coffee.
You will also be working on skill development to further independence as well as supporting with everyday activities such as personal care (toileting / washing / dressing), administering medication, financial organisation support, meal planning and nutrition advice.
What you need to work as a Support Worker with Guinness:
- Experience is not essential as we provide full training and support.
- You should be comfortable supporting customers with personal care which includes toileting, bathing and dressing.
- You should be flexible to work shifts with early starts and late finishes. All our support teams work alternate weekends (both days).
- Having a full UK driving licence is helpful, but not essential.
- Above all, you need a real desire to care for others and make a real difference to their quality of life.
In return for your dedication and commitment, we offer a fantastic benefits package including:
- Annual salary from £25,095 per annum, based on a 40 hour week.
- Permanent, contracted, full or part time hours with extra hours often available.
- Helping to save for your future! Guinness will contribute up to 9% towards your pension on a matched basis.
- Paid Sleep-in shifts - £78.75 per night
- Free enhanced DBS
- £250 unlimited staff referral scheme
- Company sick pay after a qualifying period
- Competitive pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Excellent lifestyle benefits portal including cycle to work scheme and fantastic discounts at supermarkets and many other shops, on-line retailers & leisure activities.
- Fully paid induction training programme, RQF/NVQ qualifications and on-going training
- Employee Assistance Programme, plus more
If you are looking for a REWARDING CAREER where you can make a real difference, we would love to hear from you! Just hit the 'APPLY' button now!
Please note: We are not currently offering any form of sponsorship for this role
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About Us
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.
The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme