Care Support Worker
Service: St Stephens Road 11, Retford. DN22 7EZ
Salary: £12.21 Per Hour
Hours: Full and Part Time Hours Available
Do you want to make a positive difference to people’s lives, enabling them to gain greater independence and improve their well-being? If the answer is yes, then read on!
Who are Ambient Support?
We are Ambient Support a registered UK charity with over 25 years’ experience in providing care and support services for older people, people with mental health needs and people with learning disabilities.
St Stephens Road is our Supported Living service, which enables the people we support to live as independently as possible in a home of their own. This usually means a small group of people sharing a house with their own secure tenancy, with care and support tailored to meet their individual needs.
The role of our Care Support Workers:
* Providing social and emotional support, either at home and/or in their local community
* Supporting residents with their personal care including personal hygiene needs if required.
* Support with their shopping and assisting with budgeting.
* Building/maintaining relationship with friends and family of our residents
* Household tasks including cooking, cleaning and laundry.
* Going out for walks, meals and other activities that supported individuals may want to experience.
Skills and attributes of our Care Support Workers:
* Ideally you will have experience supporting adults with Learning Disabilities including Autism. However, please do still apply even if you have limited experience in these areas as full training will be provided.
* You need to be a very calm, caring individual with a positive outlook.
* Empathy, caring and sensitivity to the needs of others.
* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
* Computer Literate
Becoming part of the Ambient family brings benefits too!
* Flexible working, enabling work-life balance.
* National Living Wage paid regardless of age, including under 25s.
* Training and development
* ‘Refer a Friend’ bonus scheme..
* Paid holiday with minimum of 28 days holiday, including BH (pro-rata for part time staff)
* Membership of Health Service Discounts scheme
* Free access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
We positively welcome diversity of background, ethnicity, skills, talents, and contributions from everyone.
We are committed to Safeguarding. An enhanced DBS clearance is required for this post. References will also be obtained for all roles.
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