- 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 flat rate up to 10,000 mile per year
- 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
Female Support Worker - Inverurie, United Kingdom - Real Life Options
Description
Female Support Worker- Relief positions available
Inverurie
Drivers Preferred
**Please note that due to the location of service drivers are preferred for this role due to there being limited public transport and routes no being available during shift times
£12.00 per hour
Ideal for anyone living local to Inverurie or neighbouring towns such as; Westhill, Huntley & Insch.
There are many different shifts available however the most common are:
7.30am-3pm, 3pm-10pm, 9am-4pm, 12pm-9pm, 5pm-10pm, 10am-3pm
Our service also requires sleepover shifts- these are paid hourly.
More about the role:-
Start your career with Real Life Options knowing that you're making a difference by supporting greater independence and creating more opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autism. At our Inverurie service we support individuals with many differing day to day living tasks and activities to encourage and promote independence, from providing support with medication, mealtimes and maintaining tenancies to accompanying to parties, bingo, dances or other social activities.
The successful applicant should have experience within the supporting role and an upbeat personality that can encourage the people we support to live an ordinary life. There can be challenging behaviour in some of our services and any candidate that applies should have experience with challenging behaviour and how to manage this, this can range from verbal to physical challenges.
As the service needs can be very variable due to supporting many individuals with differing needs, any successful applicant would need to have a level of flexibility around working hours . We expect all of our staff to be able to work across the service with many of the people we support.
Full training is provided for this role and successful applicant will be required to undertake annual competencies and training.
You must have good communication skills, be able to use your own initiative and be aware of care standards and SSSC requirements. Experience with complex needs would be an advantage or the willingness to learn how to support individuals with challenging behaviour.
An enhanced PVG is required for this role.
Benefits and Rewards
In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:
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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