Overview
Support Worker
Location: Sawdlincote DE11 9UA
£12.21 per hour
Contract: Full-time - Permanent
Real Life Options provide support to people with autism, learning disabilities, and complex needs. We provide individualised support packages and promote independence to enable people to live a happy fulfilled life within their own homes. The service comprises 12 apartments for people with mild learning disabilities, 4 bungalows for individuals with higher complex needs and 4 bungalows for people who display behaviours of concern.
About the Role
Responsibilities
* You will be supporting individuals in their own homes to live as independently as possible, this involves following daily planners
* Helping with financial expenditure
* Domestic support and administration of medication
* Personal care (where appropriate)
* Meal planning and preparation
* Maintaining important relationships
* Support to find new friendships
* Encouraging participation in activities in the local community to enhance social inclusion
* Seeking new opportunities for the growth and development of the people we support, including volunteering roles and further education access
Shift patterns
7:00 to 14:00, 8:00 to 15:00, 14:00 to 21:00, 15:00 to 22:00, and 21:00 to 07:00 (Waking Nights). Working on a rota, you will be required to work weekends, evenings, bank holidays with planned time off. Flexibility to cover any of these shift patterns over the 7-day weekly period is essential.
Requirements
* Enhanced DBS is required for this role
Benefits
* A minimum of 28 days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff)
* Accredited training and professional development, mentoring, and a strong support network
* An employer contributory pension scheme
* Health Cash Plan (for full/part-time contracted hours)
* £10,000 Life cover
* Employee Assistance Programme (medical helpline, counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
* Discounts via Reward Gateway
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Financial wellbeing scheme
* Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
* Recognition initiatives
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Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including junk mail folders.
Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.
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