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Support Worker

Eric Patrick Care Group are a supported living provider in the London, Kent, Sussex, and Surrey area. We are opening 3 brand-new unit at the end of May in Croydon, South East London, Bromley, and we are recruiting for experienced Support Workers to join the team. Our service users are aged between 16-25 and are semi-independent. We require Support Workers who can work long shift patterns our shifts run from 10pm to10am with a sleep in, we also occasionally have 12-hour shifts running from 10am - 10pm and waking night shifts from 12am - 10am. Could this be you? To be a Support Worker at Eric Patrick Care, you will have experience in working with young people and supporting service users with complex mental health needs. You will be confident in passing on life skills to encourage independent living from our Service Users. Whilst the role has its challenges, the results you will see from the young people you work with are incomparable. Using life skills, you will have the opportunity to make a huge difference within a young person’s life. Helping them to overcome any difficulties or disadvantages they may face - allowing them to strengthen their future. You will meet a variety of young people, some of whom may require high levels of supervision and support. Why work for Eric Patrick Care? Competitive Salary - (Day rate 11.50 to 18.00 - Waking night rate 13.50) We pride ourselves on giving children who experience behavioural and emotional difficulties the highest quality care and substitute parenting.? What will you be doing?? You will be assisting the service users with day-to-day tasks (washing clothes, shopping, ironing, job search, college applications)? You will accompany the service users out in the community (doctor’s appointments, leisure activities)? You will complete daily logs and weekly reports? You will partake in Key work with the service users to encourage independent living? You will follow structured reporting procedures? You will liaise with social workers? You will be following safeguarding procedures

Job Types: Full-and-part-time, Contract, Permanent Salary: 10.00-15.50 per hour

Benefits:

• Casual dress

Schedule:

• 12-hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekends

Experience:

• Support Environment: 1 year (Required)

Location:

• London SE-SW- Surrey (Preferred)

Licence:

• NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care (Preferred)
• DBS on the update service (Preferred)

Work remotely:

• No

Work remotely

• No

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract, Freelance
Contract length: 12 months
Part-time hours: 20 per week

Salary: £11.50-£18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee mentoring programme
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• Referral programme
• Transport links

Physical setting:

• Care home
• Extra care housing
• Live-in

Shift:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift
• Overnight shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Croydon, Greater London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (required)

Experience:

• children, young people and people, or mental ill health: 1 year (required)

Language:

• ENGLISH (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Shift availability:

• Overnight shift (required)
• Night shift (required)
• Day shift (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 28/05/2023
Reference ID: EPC22