Community Services Support Worker

Location

Newmarket, Suffolk | United Kingdom

Job description

Community Service Support Worker

Job Description:

We seek caring, compassionate and enthusiastic Support Workers to join our team in the Cambridgeshire and surrounding areas. No experience is required! 

The primary role of a Support Worker at Fevaca is to directly support our clients, people with a learning disability and/or autism. You will work with your clients to help them live a happy and fulfilled life and one that is as independent as possible by accessing activities within in the community. We aim to provide a person centred environment where we tailor our care to the needs of each individual. 

Our average day will include activities and fun days out, such as:

• Local days out to popular parks, restaurants and pubs.
• Cinema days out.
• Bowling.
• Swimming.

What Fevaca can offer you:

• Training programmes including Safeguarding, DOLs and MCA, Attachment Theory and more
• Pension scheme
• Continuous support from management 
• Qualification such as the Care Certificate and NVQ Lvl 3 
• Progression opportunities within the organization
• Flexible working
• Training Bonus!

Essential:

• Full UK Driving Licence 
• Right to work in the UK
• Flexible availability over weekends
• Genuinely caring, with a want to provide fantastic support to clients
• You are able to keep accurate records, carrying out all recording and reporting in a person-centered, factual manner.
• You work safely and ensure contractual and regulatory compliance so our clients can trust, feel safe and have confidence in the support we provide
• Willingness to attend trainings and further your knowledge 
• Good communication, good written skills and fluent English
• Positive, with a problem-solving approach to challenging situations 
• Reliable, with good time keeping
• Good written skills and fluent English
• Confident with lone working

Desirable:

• Experience in social care/ learning disabilities (not essential)
• Experience lone working with vulnerable adults
• A basic knowledge of CQC
• Care Certificate, Level 3 Health and Social Care (not essential)

We are a company specialising in providing support to children, young people and vulnerable adults. Our team consists of Social Workers, Teachers, Social Care Practitioners and those with experience from the business sector; creating social care expertise within an efficient business model. Our experience is drawn from both UK and International social care work within the private, voluntary and statutory sector.

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Salary

£12.02 per hour