Support Worker - Forfar, United Kingdom - Real Life Options

Real Life Options

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Forfar, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Support Worker - Forfar

Join our team and support people to achieve their goals

Can you be the person to give meaning and fulfilment to the people we support and gain a rewarding role?

We support people to live within their own home, access the community and lead meaningful lives and partake in holidays with support as well as many different forms of outdoor activities like, fishing trips, go-karting and football.

The service is staffed with various shifts to ensure that individual's needs are fully met.

We support people within supported living homes or flats, we also support within the community setting.

Real Life Options is a registered charity currently going through a period of growth, and we are continuing to search for permanent contracted Support Workers who really want to make an impact on the lives of the people we support.

The role

Across all services, you will be supporting people with learning disabilities, some mental health issues and Autism, with some challenging behaviours at times.

Therefore you must have the ability to follow detailed support plans in order to ensure a consistent approach and that the individuals needs are being met.

Real Life Options offers flexible employment opportunities. This role will include shift working, including evenings, and weekends

Permanent Contracted hours:
Full Time 39 hours per week

£10.90 per hour
Previous experience is desirable for this position although full training will be provided.

Driver preferred but not essential.

A PVG is required for this role.

Benefits and Rewards

A minimum of 28days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (prorata for part time staff)
Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
An employer contributory pension scheme

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 facetoface 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
Mileage paid at a flat rate of
£0.35p per mile for the first 10,000 miles per year

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

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.