Location
Surbiton, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
About The Role
Life Practitioner - Full and Part-Time opportunities
Up to £12.80 ph (Depending on experience)
Are you and experienced Support Worker/Life Practitioner looking for a truly flexible full-time or part-time career within Adult Care? Read on, we've something ground-breaking to shout about.
Here at Kisimul we're dedicated to improving the lives of the Adults with Autism and learning difficulties that we support everyday.
We're excited to be opening a brand new Home called 'Tigh Lurach' - a beautiful home located in Surbition, Surrey.
We're also excited to launch our new flexible working contract. Our new contract will have no set shift pattern, you'll agree your 40 hours per week with your manager, at least 4 weeks ahead. You will elect to work either 5 x 8 hour shifts or 4 x 10 hour shifts per week across a variety of times and days to suit the needs of the business and the people we support - giving you the flexibility to strike a genuine work/life balance whilst pursuing a truly rewarding career at Kisimul. (Part-time shifts also available).
About the Role.
As a Support Worker/ Life Practitioner you’ll be an integral part of the team, teaching young adults life skills in context and support them to integrate these skills. We’ll give you all the training you’ll need. You’ll contribute to and promote the development of young peoples’ communication, self-help, and independence skills - undertaking actions devised by other specialist colleagues, such as speech therapists and educational psychologists and providing feedback on sessions. Plus, support individuals with maintaining and improving their health and supporting emotional needs, always promoting increased independence. Support Workers participate in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational activities such as trips to the Safari Park, fun fairs or local restaurants.
Our new care model is ground breaking.
Meaningful life is our innovative new model – an industry first. Providing care and education to people we support is at the centre of all our decision making, with the ambition to enable them to fulfil their most meaningful life. We bring all our specialist teams together from education, therapies and care and put the people we support right in the centre of our family of experts to deliver a meaningful life.
About You.
If you have a background in care work, great, we’ll work with you to develop you to where you want to get to, however, you don’t need a background in care to become a Support Worker, just a caring approach and passion for helping others.
We offer flexible hours to suit your family life.
Days - 40hrs per week. Shifts either 5 x 8 hour shifts or 4 x 10 hour shifts (between 7.30am and finishing at 8.30pm). Part-Time shifts also available. Days/hours to be agreed with Manager.
Choose your career pathways and we’ll help build your skills to get you there.
Pay progression recognising your professional development and career progression.
Many of our senior leaders have been promoted from support roles and we’ve supported them along the way.
We’ll pay and support you to learn new skills and to pass your care diploma.
Pay transparency:
The Life Practitioner salary starts at £11.22 ph (Level 1) and goes up to £11.60 ph (Level 2), increasing to £12.80 ph (Level 3) depending on your experience and development. A decision will be made at interview to determine starting salary dependent on experience.
We also offer enhanced hourly rates on additional hours, for those who choose to work overtime.
Ready to do 100% you. Then apply today and begin a new journey.
Want more info? Watch this short video to find out what it’s like to be a Support Worker at Kisimul:
About Kisimul Group
KISIMUL GROUP is a long-established provider of quality education and care services to children and young adults with complex learning difficulties, challenging behaviour, autism and global developmental delay. Twice winners of The Teacher of the Year Award (Excellence in Special Needs Teaching – East Midlands Region), we are committed to providing excellent teaching and continuity of service to very vulnerable young people for whom drastic change is overwhelming.
About Kisimul Group
Benefits
- Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades [find out more here – Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care
- Fully funded qualifications – Diploma Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care
- Blue Light card which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
- Care Friends – earn additional money just by sharing our job adverts with your friends
- WageStream, a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses
- Unlimited access to Health Assured for yourself and partner, for support with physical & mental health, legal advice and a whole host of other tools
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Salary
£11.22 - £12.8 per hour
