Support Worker

Location

Dover, Kent | United Kingdom

Job description

Role: Support Worker

Location: Dover

Salary: £10.90 per hour

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week

Are you an inspiring Support Worker?

Do you have experience of supporting people with autism and learning disabilities?

Join our team! Be a Support Worker with United Response.

What is it?

We are currently recruiting for a Support Worker role to work in one of our brilliant supported living services in Dover. Here at United Response we pride ourselves on providing person-centred support to young people and adults with mental health needs, physical disabilities and learning disabilities, our Lead Senior Support Workers are a key part of making sure that happens.

• Supporting adults with autism, learning disabilities and some health care needs.
• It gives you the opportunity to make the service and the people who live there thrive.
• An opportunity to make their home a place where they can flourish within their achievements, a place of creativity, happiness and safety.

Are you?

• Someone with passion, energy, skills and enthusiasm to support individuals in their home and community
• Able to inspire and work as a team in a social care setting.
• Able to demonstrate experience in working alongside people with autism, some health care needs and learning disabilities.
• Someone who can demonstrate absolute commitment towards recognising and achieving the aspirations of the people we support and working alongside them and the team to really make things happen.
• Able to see and seize the opportunities that everyday life gives us.
• Experienced in supporting adults with autism and learning disabilities.

Rewards and benefits

In return for your passion and commitment, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Paid annual leave
• Pension Contribution
• Access to free occupational health, physiotherapy, counselling and advice services
• Fully paid training and access to nationally recognised qualifications
• Travel to work scheme (season ticket loan)
• Access to an online shopping platform with discounts from over 3,500 retailers

Please note this role will include elements of weekend and bank holiday work so flexibility is essential.

Successful applicants will be subject to a full DBS check.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early.

United Response is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to the Mindful Employer values and are a Disability Confident Leader, providing support to applicants with disabilities. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. If you are interested in applying for employment with United Response and are in need of support to navigate our website or to complete your application please send an email with your request to [email protected].

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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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£20k - £30k per annum