Support Worker - £500 Welcome Bonus

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Job description

£10 per hour plus £500 Welcome Bonus and pay enhancements for short notice shifts
37.5 hours per week

Do you want to join a team that provides a person-centred service to enable the people we support to live a fulfilling life?

This Support Worker role will give the you the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge and become a vital part of the changing service.

46 Bath Road is a small residential service for 6 individuals with Learning Disabilities. The small size of the service enables the staff team to develop close and supportive relationships with their colleagues in this long-standing staff team, as well as the individuals living at Bath Road.

The people we support at this service are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, kind, caring, supportive, flexible to meet their needs, adaptable to change and who likes to spend time doing activities (both inside and outside of the service).

As Support Worker, your responsibilities will include:

• To encourage and enable the people we support to make day-to-day choices and major life decisions, signposting as appropriate, and to develop a positive self-image and maintain good health.

• To support service users to develop relationships to maintain contact with family and friends.

• To provide service users with the agreed necessary support to maximise their independence and to develop social and life skills

The successful Support Worker will:

• Have strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with team members, people we support and a range of stakeholders.

• Have a caring manner and a tolerant nature, experience within the sector is not essential as we will provide you with training required to carry out your duties.

• Due to the location of the home and the need to access activities within the local community, it is essential that staff are able to drive

In return, we will offer you some excellent benefits including:

• Up to 26 days' holiday and 8 days' bank holiday entitlement

• Family friendly/work-life balance policies

• Company pension scheme & health cash plan (BHSF)

• Free parking at most Trust services

• Comprehensive induction and learning and development opportunities

• Access to all levels of training appropriate to your role and career progression with the Trust.

For an informal discussion about the job role please contact Rebecca Munroe, Service Coordinator on / or Jeanette Gibson, Service Manager on .

*Welcome bonus will be offered for candidates offered roles from the 10th September 2021 and is dependent on successful recruitment and probation processes and policy.

This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received.

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Covid19 Update:

Please note: All staff that work or have a professional reason to visit care homes/CQC registered services are required to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, unless they have evidence that they are medically exempt from the requirement, as set out in DHSC Guidance on mandatory vaccination. This may be a condition of an employment offer.

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Milestones Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all the individuals that it supports, it expects the same commitment from all employees. If successful at interview an enhanced DBS check will take place. (Formerly CRB) A criminal record is not necessarily a barrier to recruitment. Committed to Equality and Diversity for all. Registered Charity No. 294377.