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Advance Housing and Support
Full Time London, England 23365 - 12.04 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Position: Support Worker

Location: Hackney

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Sun, including weekends, evenings, holidays and sleep ins).

Salary: £23,365.24 per annum

Job ref: 3562

About the Role:

Are you caring, fun and up for a challenge? Are you looking for a career where you get to make a difference to people’s lives? Do you love the idea of no two days being the same? If so, we want to hear from you.

Advance is looking for a Support Worker in Hackney to support customers with Learning Disabilities/ Autism/ Complex needs/ mental health conditions to live the lives they choose. We offer great benefits, flexible working and all the training and support you need to kick start a rewarding career in Social Care.

Day to Day Activities:

  • Our Customers are older adults age from 55 – 72.
  • Personal care
  • Medication administration
  • Support to prepare and cook meals
  • Support to attend medical appointments
  • Support with social activities
  • Support with independent skills
  • Support to maintain living environment

About the candidate

You don’t need to have previous experience working in care or support to be successful in this role. What matters are your values, your passion and determination to make a difference in the lives of people with Autism or learning disabilities.

Whether you want to work a few hours a week, or full-time, if you think a Support Worker role sounds right for you, you will need to be:

  • Flexible to work on a rolling rota.
  • Good at working on your own and within a team
  • Excellent at communicating with people.
  • Able to complete good quality support records.
  • You will be able to work weekends.
  • You must be able to offer sleep ins
  • Candidate should computer literate
  • Must have an understanding of care plans
  • Must be able to work closely with other outside agencies such as social workers and other health professionals.

For more information about the role please contact, Sharon Fritz on 07764974961.

About the organisation:

We are a well-established, national, charitable organisation which provides support to thousands of adults across the UK with learning disabilities and mental health conditions living in the community.

We are very proud of the work we do and the difference we make to our customers' lives every day. We recognise that our people are our greatest asset, that’s why we invest in training and development and enable staff to gain industry-recognised qualifications and supporting them in realising their own career aspirations.

Advance is an equal opportunities employer who values its staff and the difference they make to their customers. There is no place for racism or discrimination of any kind in Advance. As an organisation, we will not tolerate it. We are committed to recruiting the best staff whatever their ethnicity, race, religious beliefs or sexual orientation may be. All newly appointed staff receive an induction, during which they will learn about our PRIDE values, our expectations of how they should treat our customers and our commitments in relation to how they will be treated as a member of staff.

Benefits of working for Advance:

We’re a national, charitable organisation, supporting thousands of people across the UK. We value our staff and the difference they make to the lives of our customers, which is why we offer the following benefits:

  • Flexible hours to fit around you and the needs of our customers
  • Paid mileage and travel time between appointments
  • Paid holiday (from 25 days up to 30 days with long service in addition to bank holidays, pro rata)
  • Sector specific training is provided as part of induction plus opportunities for professional development.
  • Access to Perks at Work where you can obtain great discounts of cinema tickets, shopping vouchers and much more
  • Long service awards payable in 5 years increments
  • Golden Hello/refer a friend receive up to £500 over 6 months.
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
  • Free DBS (Disclosures and Barring Service) check
  • Excellent opportunities to progress your career within Advance
  • Enrolment in a pension scheme with matched contributions above the statutory minimum (if you work enough hours to meet the threshold for enrolment).


Advance is regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. You will be required to provide evidence of right to work. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Advance.

We value diversity and therefore welcome applications from everyone interested in working at Advance. Advance are enrolled in the disability confidence scheme.

Advance Housing & Support Ltd reserves the right to close this job once sufficient applications have been received.

social worker
Advance Housing and Support

www.advanceuk.org
Witney, United Kingdom
Julie Layton
$25 to $50 million (USD)
201 to 500 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
Civic, Welfare & Social Services
1974
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