Dimensions
Location
Southampton | United Kingdom
Job description
Due to the travelling between locations it is essential that you have a full UK drivers licence and have your own vehicle.
Relief Contracts available - Various shifts
Evening shifts between the hours of 4pm - 8pm
Weekends shifts Saturday's or Sundays between the hours of 9am - 8pm
As a Relief worker, your basic pay rate is £11.08 and your annual leave is accrued for each hour that you work and paid to you on a monthly basis, which bring each hour you work to £12.41.
As a Support Worker in Outreach you will be assisting people to access Day Centres and to enable them to achieve their dreams, ambitions and to live happy and engaged lives. There are lots of activity based support and will appeal to people who enjoy the outdoors, walking, shopping, eating out, bowling, cinema and socialising. The people we support are very much involved and really enjoy being part of a local football league. In addition to all of these fun activities, you will also be supporting people in developing their daily living skills, to maximise their independence.
Dimensions are one of the country's largest not-for-profit organisations supporting people with learning difficulties, autism, behaviours of distress and complex needs and we are driven by our values. People with learning disabilities and their families are at the heart of everything we do.
Dimensions is proud to be one of very few social care organisations that are accredited by the Great Places To Work programme 2023, and you will be fully supported not just by your team colleagues, but also by your passionate manager.
Applications will be shortlisted on receipt and interviews will be held until the posts are filled.
Your rewards
- Free DBS check
- Advance: access to some of your earned pay ahead of your regular payday
- Free financial education: access to a range of tips, videos and tools for budgeting and saving.
- A comprehensive employee assistance programme
- Access to the Blue Light Card (lots of discounts available)
- 30 days annual leave entitlement (including bank holidays), rising to 35 days
- £500 bonus for recommending a friend to work for us if they're employed
- Paid training with financial bonuses for completion of awards and diplomas
- We'll pay for and support you to complete the Care Certificate, a requirement for people working in the health and social care sector.
- 50% contribution to the cost of learning to drive, subject to certain criteria
- Discounts and cashback on shopping and days out with our colleague benefits scheme
- We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you've earned before payday
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- An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
- We welcome applications from everyone and value diversity in our workforce
- As Disability Confident Leaders , we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy - Dimensions has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees
- As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150.
- We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
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
£12.41 per hour
