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

At 2a Court Road, we provide support to 15 people with learning disabilities who, on occasions, can find life challenging. Our service is divided into 3 homes with 5 people living in each. We are here to support the residents as individuals and enable them to live the lives that they have chosen. Enabling residents to live enriched and varied lives is at the heart of everything we do!

We are fully committed to each and every member of staff and aim to encourage all staff to fulfil their potential within the team. We want to hear from you if you are a passionate, dedicated and caring person.

As a Support Worker, your responsibilities will include:
• To encourage and enable service users 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 and to maintain contact with family and friends.
• Have a caring manner and a tolerant nature and would be able to work proactively together with the team
• Take part in the training and development schedule provided by Milestones Trust and undertake medication competency training as needed in the role
The successful Support Worker will:
• Possess strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with team members, service users and a range of stakeholders
• Experience within the sector is not essential as we will provide you with training required to carry out your duties
• Be flexible, as the role includes shift work, weekend work and includes waking nights and be able to lone work while supporting the people to meet their goals and aspirations in the community setting
• A valid UK Driving License is essential as our team of support workers are required to drive our service minivan
Here at Milestones Trust we recognise that without the hard work, commitment and passion given by our staff, we wouldn't be the charity that we are today. That's why we are committed to rewarding you with a competitive pay and benefits package including:
• 30 days Annual Leave Entitlement
• Access to an Employee Discount Platform from Day 1 with discounts and cash back for hundreds of retailers.
• Refer a Friend Scheme earning you up to £750
• Company Pension
• Competitive salary
• Generous Occupational Maternity/Paternity pay
• Learning and development opportunities for you to build your career
• Health Cash Plan on completion of probation giving you access to a minimum of £695 cash back for health treatments e.g. Dental, Therapies, Optical, Maternity/Paternity, NHS Prescriptions etc.
We pride ourselves with being able to offer staff opportunities to develop and progress their careers within Milestones Trust.

For an informal discussion about the job role please contact Sharon Hilleard, Home 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 ongoing 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.

We continue to deliver safe, high quality care and support in line with Government guidance. More details of our response can be viewed here:

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.