Support Worker

Location

Okehampton, Devon | United Kingdom

Job description

Creating Opportunities. Improving lives.

Our Supported Living team provides care and support for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and complex needs, so that they can live their life, their way.

As a Support Worker you will play an important role in helping our customers to work towards their aspirations and goals.

You will be helping with everyday life, this means supporting with personal care (toileting / washing / dressing), administering medication, nutrition advice, meal planning and preparation. You will also be enabling our customers to do the things that they want to do, such trips to the garden centre, beach or heading into town for a coffee. You will also be working on skill development to further independence. What could be more rewarding?

What you need to work as a Support Worker with Guinness:

• Experience is not essential as we provide full training and support, your personal values are more important than experience.
• You should be comfortable supporting customers with personal care which includes toileting, bathing and dressing.
• You should be flexible to work shifts with early starts and late finishes. All of our support teams work alternate weekends (both days)
• A full driving licence is helpful (but not essential)
• Above all, you need a real desire to care for others and make a real difference to their quality of life.

In return for your dedication and commitment, we offer a fantastic benefits package including:

• Competitive salary from £23,023 to £23,656 per annum
• Salary based on 40 hours, equivalent to £11.03 - £11.33 per hour
• Permanent, contracted, full or part time hours with extra hours often available
• Paid Sleep-in shifts
• Free enhanced DBS
• £250 unlimited staff referral scheme
• Company sick pay after a qualifying period
• Competitive pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Excellent lifestyle benefits portal including cycle to work scheme and fantastic discounts at supermarkets and many other shops, on-line retailers & leisure activities.
• Fully paid induction training programme, RQF/NVQ qualifications and on-going training
• Employee Assistance Programme, plus more!

If you are looking for a job where you can make a real difference, we would love to hear from you! Just hit the 'APPLY' button now to create your application.

Please note we are only able to consider applications from people who are currently local to the role. We are not offering sponsorship at this time.

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About Us

The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

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About Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .

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Salary

£11.03 - £11.33 per hour