Salary: £13.00 per hour
Location: Southampton, Hampshire
Type of Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: Part time
Driver: Full UK -manual driver’s licence
About the role
The person you will support is a 30-year-old lady, who lives at home with her mum in Fair Oak. We are looking for a support worker to join her team who currently provide 2:1 support when going out in the community.
Gemma has a diagnosis of learning disabilities, autism, Tourette’s, and Epilepsy, therefore experience in these areas would be useful in supporting her.
Gemma requires verbal prompts, support, and encouragement with all aspects of her daily life, finances, medication, personal care, shopping, cooking, and attending activities.
It’s very important that her team support her to access a variety of different activities and support her to increase her independence.
Gemma loves to dance and sing to her favourite music, and is looking for fun, confident individuals that can enjoy this with her.
She loves the activities she takes part in, such as shopping, going to the cinema, bowling, crazy golf, nature walks, feeding the ducks and music therapy.
Gemma can become anxious at times and ideally is looking for team members who are decisive, caring and have real passion to enable Gemma to live her very best life.
Why work for us
• Work for a small not for profit organisation where the focus is the people we support
• Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued
• Have support from an experienced management and clinical team
• Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support
• Have training opportunities that enhance your career development
Benefits include: 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1 year anniversary with PBS4, in-house paid induction training followed by 12 weeks blended e-learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme and access to various other benefits through our Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and receive £300.00 for every successful person you refer.
About PBS4
We are a values led social care provider for adults with Neurodisability, we support people to live in their own homes, with their own tenancies and our model of support is a practice called Positive Behaviour Support. Our CEO Jonathan Beebee is a registered Learning Disabilities Nurse and qualified Behaviour Analyst. We are a medium-sized organisation supporting 35 people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of just over 300.
Within PBS4, we call Support Workers ‘Enablement Assistants’. As an Enablement Assistant you will have the support of a team of people dedicated to supporting that person. You will also be able to access support from the Enablement Manager, Deputy Enablement Manager and the Positive Behaviour Support Clinician who provide you and the team with management and leadership. Your shift pattern may consist of day shifts, waking nights and sleeps
Be the change!
People with learning disabilities should have the same right to an ordinary life as anyone else. They need support from people like you to help them achieve this. If you are passionate about helping people to achieve the life they deserve and thrive of seeing others succeed then a career with PBS4 is the career for you. We value experience in supporting others, but we warmly welcome people without experience who share our values.
We want to create new ways of working, led by passion and drive for doing what is right, and promote innovation from our teams. Join us on our mission to disrupt social care!
* “Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010”
Role Type
Pay Rate
12.99 GBP – 13 GBP (Hour)
Company Overview
PBS4 provides support to enable people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour to have independent lives and to live in their own home. Our approach is underpinned by Positive Behaviour Support. Positive Behaviour Support is an approach mostly used to support people with learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge others. The goal is to shift the focus away from reducing challenging behaviour to understanding what that behaviour means and supporting people to get what they need better.
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