Female Support Worker
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Up to £11.60 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 May 2024 |
| Location: | Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Creative Support |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 68759 |
Summary
Drumoyne Gardens is an Independent Living Service for adults with a Learning Disability. The service provides 24/7 support to 4 young women who share a house together.
We are seeking staff that can provide excellent person-centred care and support to tenants to assist and develop everyday living skills and to enjoy a wide range of activities. We require positive and enthusiastic staff who will demonstrate superb communication skills, that are able to work within positive behaviour support guidelines and who will encourage the tenants to live socially inclusive lives. The staff must be able to build a trusting and friendly rapport with all of the service users and to work within the guidelines of local and corporate policies in a dignified manner. The service is full of energy and provides a lively and unique job role for the right candidate. It is desirable to have a candidate who is creative and innovative, who can inspire the ladies and provide fun activities during shifts.
Staff must be flexible and willing to work the required shifts patterns including evening, weekends and sleep-ins. The posts also offer potential candidates the opportunity to work across other services and with other individuals who have a range of support needs. In provision of this care we require warm, motivated and person centred individuals with a keen interest in providing personalised support to meet individual care plans.
We are looking to recruit people who enjoy a challenging and rewarding job and who wish to develop through the training packages that we offer.
Car driver preferred though not essential for this role.
Benefits of working with Creative Support:
We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.
Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.
We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.
We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.
We are seeking staff that can provide excellent person-centred care and support to tenants to assist and develop everyday living skills and to enjoy a wide range of activities. We require positive and enthusiastic staff who will demonstrate superb communication skills, that are able to work within positive behaviour support guidelines and who will encourage the tenants to live socially inclusive lives. The staff must be able to build a trusting and friendly rapport with all of the service users and to work within the guidelines of local and corporate policies in a dignified manner. The service is full of energy and provides a lively and unique job role for the right candidate. It is desirable to have a candidate who is creative and innovative, who can inspire the ladies and provide fun activities during shifts.
Staff must be flexible and willing to work the required shifts patterns including evening, weekends and sleep-ins. The posts also offer potential candidates the opportunity to work across other services and with other individuals who have a range of support needs. In provision of this care we require warm, motivated and person centred individuals with a keen interest in providing personalised support to meet individual care plans.
We are looking to recruit people who enjoy a challenging and rewarding job and who wish to develop through the training packages that we offer.
Car driver preferred though not essential for this role.
Benefits of working with Creative Support:
We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.
Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.
We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.
We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.