Full Time Support Worker - Croydon Residential Services, New Addington Croydon, England
Job description
We are looking for a full time support worker to work in our residential home in New Addington, Croydon. You’ll be working with autistic adults and their families in a residential environment that support the service users' needs.
Our residential home currently supports 11 individuals. The centre is split into two buildings and is run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Support workers help the service users to complete their everyday routines, prepare meals, as well as help them learn essential home skills such as doing the washing and making the bed. The service users regularly use the other Croydon day services.
Being a support worker takes bravery, patience and commitment. But working with autistic people gives so much more in return.
We need you to be resilient, supportive and sensitive towards the needs of autistic people.
Along with a host of benefits– from shopping discounts to flexible working and a competitive pension scheme - we’ll make sure you get excellent autism-specific training to further your career in social care.
Hours of Work: Up to 40 hours per week. We promote a flexible rota system to create a healthy work/life balance for our staff. Where possible we ask staff to work 1 weekend in a month.
We offer a competitive salary , overtime opportunities paid at an enhanced rate of £10.50 per hour and a sleep in premium at £50 per night for staff.
The National Autistic Society is here to transform lives, challenges perceptions and build a society that works for autistic people.
Visit our website at www.autism.org to find out more about who we are and what we do.
Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £22,398.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
Application question(s):
- The role you are applying for involves working with vulnerable people. Are you barred from working with vulnerable people?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: One location
