Job Title: Support Worker – (£250 Welcome Bonus)
Location: Weston-super-Mare
Salary: £9.80 per hour (plus excellent benefits)
Job type: Full time/Part Time
Are you a compassionate, empathetic person?
Are you looking for your way to positively impact the lives of others?
We are looking for someone who answered yes to join our brilliant supported living service in Weston-super-Mare as a Support Worker. We are currently supporting a very capable young lady with autism who loves to get out and about as often as she can.
As a leading national disability charity that prides itself on providing creative, high quality person-centred support, we are looking for people who want to make a difference and want to do it with a smile on their face.
Your role:
As a Support Worker your job will revolve around assisting the people we support to do what they want to do, a Support Worker’s day may involve:
- Providing active support
- Prompting and assisting with jobs around the house
- Encouraging the people we support to be as independent as possible
- Accompanying people we support into the community
- Dealing with some behaviours that challenge
- Administering medication
- Personal care
What we need from you:
The main thing for us is that you embody our mission of ensuring that young people and adults with disabilities don’t face barriers to being able to live their best life. We are looking for Support Workers who mirror the personalities of the people we support, a good sense of humour, the desire to be out and about and a friendly nature are all essentials. To be an effective Support Worker in these services you must hold a full drivers licence.
Experience is not essential for this role, we are looking for people who want to do something amazing and help others, if that sound like you then hit ‘apply’!
Pay and Benefits:
In addition to being part of a great organisation you will receive:
- £9.80 per hour
- 20 days paid annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays , pro rata for part time) ,
- Extra annual leave which increases after 3 and 5 years’ service
- Pension contribution
- Access to free occupational health, physiotherapy, counselling and advice services
- Fully paid training and access to nationally recognised qualifications
- Travel to work scheme (season ticket loan)
- Access to an online shopping platform with discounts from over 3,500 retailers
- This position is subject to an enhanced DBS Check, the cost to be met by United Response. As part of the fight back against Covid 19, all our front line staff are tested regularly and are encouraged to take the vaccine as soon as they are able”
Please note that this role will involve elements of evening, weekend and bank holiday work and successful candidates will be subject to a full DBS check.
Welcome Bonus of £250 to new starters at our service in Weston-super-Mare. T&C’s apply.
Please click on the APPLY button to be redirected to the application form.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; personal carer, care manager, support staff, Care Assistant, Enabler, Carer, Care Worker, Care Assist, Care Coordinator, Care Assistant, Social Worker, Vulnerable Adult, Support Assistant, Adult Support Worker, Special Needs Support, Adult Care Assistant, Mental Health Support will be considered for this role.
