Full time, 37.5 hours per week, working every other weekend.
A night enhancement of £1.00 per hour will apply from 8pm to 7am Monday - Thursday (this does not apply to sleep-ins). A weekend enhancement of £1.00 per hour will be paid from 8pm Friday to 7am Monday (this does not apply to sleep-ins).
In our Supported Living home in Hitchin we support people with learning disabilities to live a full and independent life. Our customers each have their own self contained flats within the building.
You must have a UK manual driving licence so that you can drive our customers cars when the need arises.
Are you an experienced care worker or would love to start a career in care?
If so, we would love to hear from you! Apply now, helping us to continue our great work making a positive impact every day on the lives of people with a disability.
Care Assistant, Support Worker or similar experience is desirable but not essential. We offer an excellent training and induction programme for everyone!
As a Support Worker with Leonard Cheshire you will become part of a fantastic team. Every day is different, but here are just some of the duties you will do:
* Assistance with daily life tasks including personal care, medication and mealtimes.
* Escort and assist in and around the service, at external events and appointments.
* Supporting our Person Centred approach, encouraging maximum independence for our customers and helping to achieve individual aspirations.
* Maintain up to date and accurate records.
Please see the job description (link below) for more details.
To be successful in this role you will:
* Have good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively.
* Work flexibly and creatively with customers and their families.
* Ideally have personal care experience (not essential).
* Be able to work under pressure and as a team.
* Flexibility to work within rostered hours / prepared to participate in an on-call rota where required.
We offer a wide range of employee rewards to include:
* Wagestream, option to withdraw up to 40% of your pay before pay day (click here for more details).
* Free Blue Light Card.
* Contributory company pension scheme with competitive life cover benefit.
* Access to a Cash Health Plan at very favourable rates.
* Great development opportunities through our apprenticeship schemes and chance to gain recognised qualifications.
* Unlimited payments through our Refer a Friend bonus scheme.
* Free DBS check.
* Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
If you have any questions or further enquiries, please contact Harinder.Athwal@leonardcheshire.org or call 07925 302 565