Support Worker

1st Homecare; Ilkeston; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000

Job description

Support Worker

£11.44 per hour

Full Time: 39 hours per week

Real Life Options are opening a new Supported Living service in Ilkeston to provide support to people with autism, learning disabilities, and complex needs. We would therefore be ideally looking for candidates with experience.

We will provide individualised support packages and promote independence to enable people to live a happy fulfilled life within their own homes. The purpose-built accommodation is made of individual apartments and purpose-built bungalows.

The service comprises of 12 apartments for people with mild learning disabilities, 4 bungalows for individuals with higher complex needs, and 4 bungalows for people who display behaviours of concern.

The role

You will be supporting individuals in their own homes to live as independently as possible. This involves following daily planners, helping with financial expenditure, domestic support, and administration of medication. There may be some support with personal care and meal planning/preparation, maintaining important relationships, and support to find new friendships.

A rewarding part of the role will be encouraging participation in activities in the local community to enhance social inclusion. Seeking new opportunities for the growth and development of the people we support could include volunteering roles and further education access.

Shift patterns:

• 7am to 2pm
• 3pm to 10pm

Working on a rota, you will be required to work weekends, evenings, and bank holidays with planned time off.

Flexibility to cover any of these shift patterns over the 7-day weekly period is essential.

An Enhanced DBS will be required for this role.

Benefits and Rewards

At Real Life Options, we treat our people with the same respect, care, and consideration that we show to the people we support. Not only do we provide competitive rates of pay, a great place to work, and great job satisfaction, our additional benefits include:

• 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 an 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.