Support Worker
Glenrothes Outreach
£12.60 per hour
Full time and part time positions available
Please note we require candidates to have a least 6 months experience in a similar role
The role:
There are 34 supported people who require person centred support to meet their needs. The shifts are on a rota basis and involves lone working 1-to-1 and the occasional double up 2-1.
Your typical shift will usually begin with reading or handing over any updates from the previous days, so that you know what is going on within the service, and you are aware of the individuals' plans for the day. Some of these services can be really challenging and require strict guidelines to follow so the supported individual can live a fulfilled life.
If working the early morning shift, you will be supporting individuals with getting up, showered and dressed. After this, you would support with breakfast and medication where required.
We promote positive interactions with the people we support to promote independence. When completing household chores and meal preparation we work on the philosophy of staff and supported people completing equal share. We also encourage the people we support to manage their own finances. We find this method both supportive and that is produces the best results for the supported person to accomplish the task. We have also found this time great opportunity to promote learning new things.
We also support our service users to maintain their social connections with family and friends. We support them to access and attend community centres and events, participating in group activities and to attend doctors, hospital and dentist appointments. 90% of the people we support use public transport to their activities with their support workers.
At the end of the day, the support worker will document anything that is relevant to the individual's day in their daily log, so that the next support worker will be able to promote structure and continuity of support.
Where support is required in the evenings, the people we support will cook dinner with staff support and again use this time to practice their independence skills. This includes knowing how to cook and prepare food, how to keep a kitchen clean, and what is safe to eat. After this, individuals might go out to a pub, disco, watch football, sports training or they might just choose to stay in and watch a film or relax and carry out evening routines.
Shift patterns
One of the services we are recruiting for receives sleepover shifts which are 1:1 support. This service has both male and female staff.
The shifts cover a 24-hour rota broken down as follows:
3pm - 11pm back shift
11pm - 7am sleep night
7am - 3pm day shift
Our other service is a 24-hour service with a waking night. This service is male only staff. The shifts are broken down as follows:
8am - 3pm day shift
3pm - 10pm back shift
10pm - 8am waking night
Benefits and Rewards
A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
An employer contributory pension scheme
Mileage paid at 35p per mile at flat rate up to 10,000 miles per year
In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:
Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
£10,000 Life cover
A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
Cycle to Work Scheme
A financial wellbeing scheme
Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
Recognition Initiatives
We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:
Respect - Honesty - Responsibility - Excellence
If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:
Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values - Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive
Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.
Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.