Male Support Worker - Surrey
Location Kingston upon Thames Discipline: Job type: Salary: £ Job ref: 030502 Published: about 6 hours ago Expiry date: 12 Sep 2025 23:59
Were recruiting!**
Join us as a Learning Disability Support Worker and help build a future where learning disabled people live the best life possible. We know that life can be complicated for everybody. But some of us are stopped from working towards our dreams. Many learning disabled people wont be heard about the support theyd like. Some wont get to decide what they do for work. Or how to spend or save their money. Many won't get to try out the new hobbies theyd love to try. But you can change all our growing team inKingston, and get all the training you need to become a confidentSupport you feel like our values - Kind, Diverse, Positive and Visionary - are a good match to your values? Then weve got lots in common already. Come on board and support learning disabled adults with those very values to develop skills, achieve their life goals and thrive in your we offer you
1. Where youll be working: Kingston Day Opportunities
2. Type of service: Resource Centre and Community Based Day Opportunities
3. Location New Malden
4. Your salary: £ per hour
5. Your working hours: We have a 30 hour a week contract -Monday to Friday- 7:30am-17pm
6. Generous Holidays:33 days of annual leave (including eight days statutory bank holidays).
7. Pay incentives: 10% overtime allowance, 20% Bank Holiday allowance, 50% for key dates over Christmas.
8. Training & development: Earn money while you get a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care.
9. Lots of benefits: Health, retail and cash incentives to use how you want.
What youll be doing
You will be supporting adults in our 1-1 Service to take part in a variety of activities that help them to learn new skills, socialise and potentially work towards employment. Some of these activities are facilitated in our busy building where we run our own canteen and café. We are looking for a candidate with skills in areas such as art music drama horticulture cookery and IT. You will require some experience in planning and facilitating sessions with meaningful outcomes for learning disabled adults with a range of abilities.
You will need competent computer skills to plan and record. We also access a timetable of community-based activities that include gym sessions, swimming and dancing classes. We use public transport and our own vehicles. For this position we require a candidate to be able to push a wheelchair. The most important aspect of this unique job is your enthusiasm and ability and create a positive rapport with the people we support in an environment where they are given every opportunity to achieve their goals.
We cant wait to meet you at our Kingston services!
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