Location
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Are you passionate about delivering high quality and respectful care and support to individuals in Wellingborough? Creative Support is looking for a warm, reliable and proactive Support Worker to join our friendly and passionate staff team in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
You will be based at one of our vibrant supported living services where we provide quality care and support to service users with a range of support needs, primarily learning disabilities. No two days will be the same as our residents love engaging in a range of exciting activities including getting their hair done, going to the pub, gaming and many more!
Your role will include:
- Providing personal care, administering medication and helping with other domestic tasks such as cooking and cleaning,
- Encouraging service users to engage in a range of exciting social activities,
- Developing warm and trusting relationships with service users and their families enabling them to enjoy their time at the service to the fullest,
We can discuss full (37.5 hours per week) and part time (minimum 15 per week) flexible shift patterns upon interview to suit both your needs and those of the service you will be working at. Evening and weekend contracts are also available to support the flexible working of our staff members.
Creative Support offers a wide range of training courses and this will be a perfect opportunity for those who are seeking to progress in the health and social care sector. Although previous experience in a similar role to Support Worker is advantageous, we would like to encourage the people with the right values and passion to apply and work to make a difference.
Benefits of working with Creative Support:
We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.
Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.
We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.
We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.
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