Support worker

Support Worker

📍 Elgin - IV30 4EJ
💰 £12.60 per hour

📅 Part Time – 35 hours per week

Must be a driver with full UK license

Do you have a passion for making a difference?

Come and work for Real Life Options and you’ll start your day knowing that you’re making a difference by supporting greater independence and creating more opportunities for people with learning disabilities, autism and behaviours that may challenge.


We are looking for caring, trustworthy and dedicated individuals to join our team. Every day is different as we promote our service users to make their own choices, achieve their goals and live as independently as possible.

Shift patterns:

Shift pattern is 3 nights on, 3 nights off.

1. Hours are 10pm to 8am

About the Role

You will be supporting individuals in their own homes to live as independently as possible; this involves;

✔ following daily planners

✔ some moving and handling

✔domestic support and administration of medication

✔ provision of personal care support if needed during the night

✔meal planning/preparation with morning support of breakfast

✔maintaining important relationships

✔ morning support of breakfast

What You’ll Need

Successful applicant will be a good communicator with a friendly and personable demeanour who is motivated, conscientious and able to manage their time well.

✔ A caring, inclusive, and person-centred mindset

✔ Willingness to learn and be part of a long-standing supportive team

✔ Ability to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends

✔ A commitment to Real Life Options’ values: Respect, Honesty, Responsibility, and Excellence

Successful applicant will be a good communicator with a friendly and personable demeanour who is motivated, conscientious and able to manage their time well.

An Enhanced DBS will be required for this role.

Why Join Us?
✅ 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 - develop professionally through training, mentoring, and a strong support network

✅ A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)

✅An employer contributory pension scheme
✅ Work in a collaborative, values-led environment

✨ 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

📩 Don’t miss out – Be Part of Something Bigger – Join a team driven by values, with a mission that matters

Apply today and start making a real impact!

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.

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