£12.60 per hour
Stockport, Greater Manchester
Part-Time
Creative Support is seeking warm, reliable and proactive Support Workers for our supported living services in Stockport. We provide person-centred care and support to enable people with a learning disability to enjoy active and fulfilled lives.
Overview
You will support service users by providing respectful personal care and support with daily living tasks at home and varied activities in the community. Some of the people we support have health or behaviour support needs and will need your skilled support to maintain their health and wellbeing.
You will be expected to use personalised communication approaches and to develop trusting relationships with the people we support and their families.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds. Previous care and support experience is valued but is not essential provided that you have a passion for enabling people to enjoy their lives and achieve their goals.
Responsibilities
* Provide respectful personal care and support with daily living tasks at home and support with activities in the community.
* Use personalised communication approaches and develop trusting relationships with the people we support and their families.
* Cover various shift patterns (early and late shifts) across a 7-day rota, including sleep-ins in most services.
* Be willing to undertake sleep-ins for which an additional sleep-in allowance is paid.
* Uphold the dignity and rights of the people supported and adhere to the employer values.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Previous care and support experience is valued but not essential; a passion for enabling people to enjoy their lives and achieve their goals is important.
* Ability to work across different shift patterns (including sleep-ins) as required by service needs.
* Must be located in the UK and have the right to work; sponsorship requests will be considered but cannot be guaranteed.
Benefits and Development
* Probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days annual leave, birthday leave, company sick pay and free enhanced DBS, plus free life assurance and wellbeing support.
* Full induction training and ongoing professional development provided by Creative Academy; opportunity to work towards Diplomas in Health and Social Care and other accredited qualifications.
* We Care values and recognition as a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident and Mindful Employer; Investors in People Gold.
How to apply
* Applications must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the vacancy reference number 84143.
* Application forms can also be downloaded and submitted to the Head Office address or by emailing recruitment@creativesupport.co.uk.
* If you have not received a response within 10 working days of the closing date, please accept this as notice of an unsuccessful application. Unsuccessful applicants must wait 6 months before reapplying.
* For advice on completing the application, call 0161 236 0829.
Vacancy Reference Number: 84143
Our Mission: Creative Support Promotes Independence, Inclusion, And Wellbeing. We work with the people we support, their families and others to meet individual needs and aspirations in a person-centred way, providing high quality homes and support to enable people to say, live, and thrive.
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We are a welcoming and inclusive anti-racist organization, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident and Mindful Employer. We hold the Investors in People Gold award in recognition of the support we offer for staff development.
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