Base pay range
This range is provided by Cartrefi Cymru Co-operative. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Overview
As a Support Worker in St Athan, you’ll help make the everyday remarkable for the people we support. We are dedicated to supporting those with learning disabilities to live a fulfilled and enriched life in the community, and as a Support Worker you can play a vital role.
Role details
Role: Support Worker
Location: St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan
Hours
We have both part-time (minimum 10 hours per week) and full-time hours (maximum 40 hours per week). Your shift pattern will include weekends and sleep-ins. Please speak to us about the hours you are looking to do.
Salary & Benefits
Salary: £12.74 per hour; sleep-in shifts at £60 per night; travel expenses paid at 45p per mile
Contract: Permanent
Interviews
We are looking to interview as soon as possible, so apply at the earliest opportunity.
What you’ll be doing
In this role, you’ll support three individuals with different interests and personalities and help them enjoy the things they love. They require full support. They enjoy social activities such as eating out at restaurants and going for walks, as well as quieter activities like crafting and relaxing sensory activities. This role involves personal care and wake-in shifts.
Your goal
Your goal is to make everyday remarkable through enhancing well-being and focusing on small, meaningful moments that bring joy and purpose. By offering this kind of person-centred support every day, this role can be fun and rewarding for the right person.
Who we’re looking for
No experience required as full training is provided. We’d love to hear from you if you:
* Have patience and empathy
* Can support a person with their intimate personal care with respect and dignity
* Have strong communication and teamwork skills
* Are able to speak on behalf of others as well as to a range of professional people
* Have good written skills and the ability to record events with empathy and meaning
* Have a full driving licence – essential for transporting individuals to appointments and activities
Our Benefits
* Excellent training and development opportunities to achieve qualifications
* 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to buy and sell leave
* Benevolent Fund, confidential financial wellbeing resource available to our colleagues
* Health and Wellbeing programme - 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
* Refer a Friend - Referral Programme
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Benefits and discount platform
* Eligibility for Blue Light discount card
About us
Our mission is to build a better future by focusing on people with learning disabilities and their families. We strive to be a great support provider for the individuals and families that we support, our employees, our partners and funders, and the communities in which we work. We’re a Cooperative, which means putting people at the heart of our decision making and support.
Our Values
* Honesty
* Trust
* Kindness
* Respect
* Wellbeing
Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early so we would encourage you to apply early for this position.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
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