Become a Support Worker with Active Prospects!
Location: Redhill, Surrey
Salary: £12.75 per hour
Service Type: Adult Complex Care Service
Speciality: Mental Health, Autism, Learning Disability
Do you want to work for an award-winning company? We are worthy winner of the Employer of the Year Award at the Learning Disabilities and Autism Awards 2024. We were also awarded with the UKs Best Workplaces 2024 by Great Places to Work UK!
This service was opened Summer 2024, and consists of 6 individual flats, with communal spaces. You will receive full support and training in your new role, to ensure you can provide the best quality of care to those you are supporting.
Are you kind? compassionate and have a passion for empowering people to lead an aspiring life. Are you patient, resilient and able to bring calm and consistency to people who may be living independently for the first time. The service supports 6 females requiring a wide range of support from emotional support, learning new coping mechanisms, and being able to express their true selves.
The role is about supporting people to lead a Gloriously ordinary life full of opportunity, fun and helping people to reach their goals and aspirations. The role can be tough, but the rewards outweigh.
You will need to be adaptable, flexible, mature and be able to support our people to gain back their independence through empowerment, active support, positive risk-taking and out of the box thinking.
At present all the people we support have several hours of 1:1 support during the day as well as some shared support day and night. The ideal people will have a passion for working with people with enduring mental health, a keen interest in the psychology behind complex behaviours that challenge and the willingness to learn and practice Positive Behaviour Support
Active Prospects is recruiting for Support Worker(s) to join our complex care service in Redhill Surrey.
Our services are close to public transport, with a short walk from the bus stop/train station to the service. Drivers are always welcome – there is free onsite parking available.
As an employee of Active Prospects, you will be entitled to our range of benefits such as:
* Competitive hourly rate of £12.75 per hour
* A comprehensive training programme (full pay)
* Assistance in funding towards driving lessons …for those not on the road yet
* Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave Enhanced Pay
* Access to a Blue Light Discount Card (for retail, holidays, gym memberships etc)
* Exclusive membership with Tastecard
* Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme
* Support with Level 3 and Level 5 NVQ Qualifications
* Opportunity to enrol on our Leadership Programme for Future Leaders
* Opportunity to learn skills to progress (80% of our managers started as Care Workers!)
* Eye Care Voucher Scheme
* Refer a Friend Scheme (Earn £500 per successful referral!)
What are you waiting for?
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* all offers are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment compliance standards