Support Worker - Meldreth, United Kingdom - Tezlom Hitchin
Description
Support Worker
Location:
Meldreth, Nr Royston, Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border
Salary:
£11 - £12 per hour
Annual Salary:
£22,880 - £24,960 per year for a 40-hour week
Hours:40 hours on average per week - we can offer full or part time hours
Have you got a passion for helping and empowering others? Are you wanting a career with progression and great benefits whilst making a difference?
Tezlom are seeking compassionate and dedicated people to become Support Workersfor our young people on a full or part time basis.
Set within 14 acres, we offer a supportive living and learning environment for young adults with severe and profound learning difficulties and complex health needs.
With specialist facilities and a focus on promoting independence, we support each of our young people through the transition from education into adulthood.
The Role:
- You will be highly involved in personal care, this is supporting our young people with all aspects of personal hygiene including toileting, dressing and maintain their personal appearance.
- As well as supporting with their medical needs you will also get involved in helping with the young adults' therapies such as rebound therapy or hydrotherapy in our newly renovated pool. We also have sensory gardens, a skills centre, forestry school and rooms dedicated to art, music and much more.
- Independence is prompted wherever is possible, the adults will often run their own days with what they like to do, so you could be helping make things in the site's enterprise scheme, going on shopping trips, taking part in forestry lessons, or even going to the pub
- Willingness to learn and to go the extra mile.
- Ability to guide and encourage supportive independence when possible.
- Exceptional communication skills and patience
- Resilient with a robust and positive nature
- Ability to be creative in meeting the needs of the young adults.
- Ability to work on a rota pattern which will include working every other weekend.
Ultimately, we are looking for people with a passion to build relationships and positively change the lives of the young adults that we work with.
If this sounds like you, we'd love for you to applyJob Types:
Full-time, Permanent
Salary:
£11.00-£12.00 per hour
Day range:
- Every weekend
- Monday to Friday
Physical setting:
- Care home
- Nursing home
- Residential home
Shift:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
Application question(s):
- What is your understanding of safeguarding?
Licence/Certification:
- UK Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location:
On the road
Reference ID:
INDSW
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