Support Worker
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £14,862 per annum plus pension & excellent benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 July 2024 |
| Location: | Wakefield, WF1 4DU |
| Company: | Langley House Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 281c293f-7531-46f3-9816-5c346687c6fd |
Summary
Langley has a fantastic opportunity for a Part-Time Support Worker to join our busy and friendly team in Wakefield. This is a permanent part time role working 24 hours per week. The successful candidate will receive a salary of £14,862 per annum.
REWARDS PACKAGE
· SmartHealth – free online GP service 24/7.
· Up to 30 days annual leave (after 2 years’ service)
· Pension scheme, matched up to 8%
· Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
· Eyecare vouchers
· Flu vaccine vouchers
· Paid DBS and renewals
· Access to private holiday home getaway in Torquay
· Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme including free counselling and legal advice
· Chaplaincy and pastoral support
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
· To key work and support clients generally within your project, and to act as the Key Worker to designated clients as required.
· To take an active role in the assessment and management of risk including the operation of physical and situational security measures to control the level of risk posed to the client, the public, staff and other clients and liaising with other stakeholders as appropriate.
· To maintain a clear and calm manner whilst managing client risk through assessment, planning, client knowledge and de-escalation as required.
· To provide, through prompting and/or assisting with, personal care to identified clients. To write Care Plans for clients and to implement a Care Plan. To keep health related records for clients as necessary.
· To regularly fully utilise the Trust ‘Client File’ with designated clients to ensure that they are supported and empowered to achieve appropriate outcomes.
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If you want to join our team as our Part-time Support Worker, please apply now as we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: 5th July 2024
We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.
A satisfactory Enhanced DBS check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.
About LANGLEY TRUST
For over 65 years Langley Trust has been supporting people with convictions to transform their lives. As a Christian charity working across England, we believe everyone deserves another chance. With a wide range of services – including complex needs care, supported housing, and specialist advice services – our work prevents crime, promotes rehabilitation, and reduces the risks of re-offending.
Diversity and Inclusion is integral to Langley 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.
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DISABILITY CONFIDENT
As a Level 2 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.
We're proud to be an Investors in People Gold employer which means we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic; additionally, Investors in People have raised the bar and acknowledge that it is harder now to secure the Gold standard than in previous years as they want to keep it meaningful.