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Job Description
Location: Leading Lives, Block D, Saxmundham Hub, Street Farm Road
Casual Support Worker, Saxmundham Community Hub
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Rate of pay: £12.60 per hour (Real Living Wage!)
With enhancements for Sundays and Bank Holidays up to 20% and sleep-ins at £65.
Casual posts available mainly based in our Saxmundham Community Hub, but willingness to work in our Supported Living service is also required. (this can include, morning, evening, daytime, weekend, sleep ins and waking nights)
Are you passionate about ensuring the best opportunities for vulnerable adults? Do you want to work for an award-winning social care company? Do you have the skills to support our customers to lead the life they choose?
We are looking for an enthusiastic Support Worker who will role model our key values and ensure the service continues to run smoothly and efficiently. You’ll be part of the key workforce on the front line ensuring our customers have every opportunity to lead the life they choose.
Leading Lives provides social care support for people with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs in the home and in the community across Suffolk and neighbouring counties. We are a not-for-profit social enterprise, owned by our employees. Any surplus we make is reinvested back into services for our customers or into the local community.
We have a number of service lines, please see our Work For Leading Lives - Leading Lives
About The Role
Why work for us?
We are passionate about making a difference to people’s lives’. Working in social care, we know that no two days are the same, but everyday counts.
* Opportunity to become a shareholder member of our employee-owned social enterprise- you will help shape Leading Lives vision and values.
* Award-winning bespoke training, including an opportunity to gain a Health & Social Care qualification
* Cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme, sickpay on-site parking, casual dress and much more.
* Pension scheme up to 8% contribution!
As Support Worker, Your Key Responsibilities Will Include:
* Support people to live independently and complete day to day activities
* Actively advocating for people we support and their families
* Provide intimate personal care with dignity, according to individual needs
* Effective communication and building rapport
* Safe administering of medication
Your induction
Leading Lives runs a 3 week induction programme: You will be met on your first day by your buddy and be supported through this.
Start date will be confirmed by the recruitment team further to a satisfactory enhanced DBS and safer recruitment checks.
Skills Needed
About The Company
Company Culture:
* Values-Driven: Leading Lives not only talks about their values but actively embodies them in their daily operations.
* Employee Testimonials: The company encourages feedback from employees like Anna, an experienced support worker, to showcase the positive impact of their values on staff.
* Authenticity: Leading Lives emphasizes authenticity in their values, highlighting that they are not just empty words but a lived reality within the organization.
Company Culture
We’re a Disability Confident Committed employer
We are happy to make reasonable adjustments whenever possible. Please do let us know if you need any support/ adjustments with your application and the process.
Desired Criteria
Required Criteria
Closing DateMonday 30th June, 2025
Contract Typefulltime
Salary£12.60 Hourly
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Other
* Industries
Non-profit Organization Management
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