Location
Newcastle upon Tyne | United Kingdom
Job description
The role of the Support Worker is to provide care and support to adults with learning disabilities. Our aim is to enable people with learning disabilities to live full and purposeful lives in their community and develop a range of activities including leisure interests, friendships and relationships, spirituality and education.
What your role will include:
• Ensuring the house is safe and secure at all times.
• Supporting service users in areas such as food preparation, domestic tasks, cleaning and kitchen hygiene.
• Ensuring service users attend regular health checks.
• Talking and engaging with service users.
• Helping service users liaise with friends, relatives and professionals.
• Participating with service users in leisure activities.
• Supporting service users to take medication, including supervision administration and recording.
• Keeping up to date records and reports as directed.
• Supporting service users with budgeting and financial recording.
• Assist service users in personal care when required (which may include bathing, washing, pad changing, dressing and oral hygiene).
• Restrain service users using approved PMVA techniques (only when required).
• Help service users lead a lifestyle that is valued and respected.
(For a full job description please get in touch via the link to our website or email us).
What New Beginnings will do for you:
• Simply Health Scheme – an employee can claim money back up to a certain amount on dental, optical, prescriptions, physiotherapy, counselling sessions etc.
• Meals are provided for staff whilst at work.
• Full paid training.
• If you are using your own car at work you can claim back 45p per mile.
• Government pension scheme.
• Birthday bonus holiday.
• £75 'Recommend a friend scheme'.
• Loyalty benefits
• We operate a 'open-door policy'.
We offer AD-HOC (0 Hour), 20 Hour, 30 Hour and 40 Hour contracts.
Check out our facebook page for an insight:
We hope to hear from you soon!
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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