Support Worker

Support Worker Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Real Life Options
Full Time Newcastle upon Tyne, England 10.42 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description

Support Worker – Jesmond Area

Due to shift patterns, applicants must be able to work a minimum of 26+ hours per week

Salary £10.42 per hour

Do you love working with people? This opportunity provides a career where you can support individuals who want to live a fulfilled life by carrying out activities and hobbies with your help and guidance.

The role

We deliver creative, dynamic and person-centred services providing a range of individualised support to people living in shared supported living properties and individual tenancies.

You will be providing support to individuals in shared accommodation located in the Jesmond area. Each individual has a daytime occupation Monday to Friday and attends without the support from Real Life Options staff. They receive some 1:1 support during evenings and weekends, this can be flexible depending on the persons choice of activity. In the evening there is 2:1 shared support, which is typically from 3pm during the week and from 7am at the weekends, this support also includes sleep ins.

Skills/characteristics: A good communicator, patient, likes being outdoors, cooking/baking, music entertainment, bowling, cinema and walking.

Previous experience is desirable for this position although full training will be provided.

An understanding of Autism would be an advantage.

An enhanced DBS is required for this role.

Benefits and Rewards

  • A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
  • Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
  • An employer contributory pension scheme

In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:

  • Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
  • £10,000 Life cover
  • A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
  • A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • A financial wellbeing scheme
  • Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
  • Recognition Initiatives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:

Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:

Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values – Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.

Support Worker
Real Life Options

www.reallifeoptions.org
Knottingley, United Kingdom
David Sargent
$25 to $50 million (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Unknown
Civic, Welfare & Social Services
1992
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